Microsoft copy others?

[蜃気楼]

Does Microsoft really copy other companies' ideas?
They copied Apple's ideas, but they build Windows without UNIX and they build Visual Studio without SciTE(Microsoft doesn't use open-source libraries)

 

[wakachamo]

I don't think you have any idea of what you're talking about.

 

[Bianca Paragon]

Does Microsoft really copy other companies' ideas?
They copied Apple's ideas, but they build Windows without UNIX and they build Visual Studio without SciTE(Microsoft doesn't use open-source libraries)

Please get a clue. It's really not THAT hard :X

 

[DannyPhantom]

Please explain this, I have no idea what you are talking about...

 

[j_]

Does Microsoft really copy other companies' ideas?
They copied Apple's ideas, but they build Windows without UNIX and they build Visual Studio without SciTE(Microsoft doesn't use open-source libraries)

How do you explain the BSD networking stack they used (legally, I might add) in XP?

 

[Kenshin]

Yes, MS steals ideas. Look at Vista and all it's features. Mac OSX has had those for a while, but MS made them part of Vista, and ruined them (Dashboard-->Windows Sidebar, WHAT?!)

 

[Mooshykris]

It will always work out in the end, few ideas are ever totally original nowadays :P.

Though, I do agree Microsoft copies, look at the tabbed browsing in IE in response to Firefox :P. Also, when you consider, they basically stole DOS in the first place.

However, as I said, all is good, no one should really care at this point.

QUOTE=Kenshin;3886412]Yes, MS steals ideas. Look at Vista and all it's features. Mac OSX has had those for a while, but MS made them part of Vista, and ruined them (Dashboard-->Windows Sidebar, WHAT?!)[/QUOTE]

Thus why you use Desktop Sidebar :P


Mooshykris

 

[Legobricks]

Everyone copies someone in some way, that's how ideas survive and move on. Copyright law is, in practice, more of a deterrent for stealing of ideas than something anyone actually seriously cares about.
If Microsoft is bad for using OS X features, then practically every arms company in the world is sueable for producing weapons chambered in .50, 9mm, .45, 5.56, 5.45 or 7.62 (and the Russian 7.62).

 

[PowerMac]

Competition like that helps the consumer (as in, us, the people using the software) and gives us better products. So long story short, Microsoft undoubtedly got ideas from Apple. Apple undoubtedly got ideas from Microsoft. Both of them undoubtedly saw things done in other OS projects and adopted those ideas as well. Microsoft obviously did it better than anyone else, and their operating system is now the dominant one on the planet (something like 90% of ALL computers use Windows). What's important is that without the competition, we probably wouldn't have anything like what we have now. It drives sales, development, creativity, ideas, etc.

Competition does help the consumer. But Microsoft did not get its 90% of the market by being better than anyone else, it got it using monopoly like tactics like not publishing information on its communication protocols so other developers could communicate with windows and hence making people buy a Microsoft solution instead.

Today of course thats all behind us and thanks to our governments Microsoft is forced to play fairly. Hence their market share is slowly eroding away (firefox gaining ground in the browser market and Linux and Mac in the OS markets)

Now we just need more competition between US ISPs to get them off their buts and upgrade their networks to match the rest of the world.

 

[wakachamo]

^Before ISPs start getting competitive, the whole issue of net neutrality needs to be solved.

 

[Virtual Chatot]

Heh, I'm disappointed that Microsoft has copied other operating systems rather than making their own ideas. Its been a while since Microsoft has really impressed me with something...

Microsoft could probably get a few brownie points if they at least attempted to make IE competitive with Firefox, but so far they're trailing behind.

 

[PowerMac]

^Before ISPs start getting competitive, the whole issue of net neutrality needs to be solved.

Absolutely. That is the most important thing in the tech world right now.

 

[蜃気楼]

Copying ideas are legal, however, if you overuse it, you will be criticized.
Copying each other may be a good thing because they give power to each other

 

[Eureka1]

Wish people would stop saying this. In the world of technology very few ideas are unique.