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Microsoft has never wanted ubiquitous computing; they've wanted ubiquitous licenses of Microsoft operating systems and applications. Even when they've tried to
by VikingCoder 14y ago
Microsoft has never wanted ubiquitous computing; they've wanted ubiquitous licenses of Microsoft operating systems and applications.
Even when they've tried to behave well, people don't trust them, because of this.
I think the single best thing Microsoft ever did was bail out Apple, so they didn't have to go bankrupt.
http://www.wired.com/thisdayintech/2009/08/dayintech_0806/ http://www.wired.com/thisdayintech/2009/08/dayintech_0806/
- joering2 14y agoWow, thanks, I didn't know that. Its kind of hard to swallow (but Jobs-ish character type, of course) to see Microsoft rescuing them, and years later seeing both Jobs and Gates sitting next to each other and Jobs bashing Gates like he's a dirt.
- philwelch 14y agoMicrosoft didn't "bail out" Apple--Apple by 1997 was solvent and profitable. The immediate cash flow problem was solved by Gil Amelio and Fred Anderson a year before. The truce between Apple and Microsoft had more to do with Apple focusing on the future and abandoning several frankly promising legal claims against Microsoft, including Microsoft's outright theft of the QuickTime source code. Promising to sell Microsoft Office for Mac was more important than the $150 million.