@tufty said:
> People love Microsoft for its above-average technical innovation.Sorry, but excuse me ...
BWAHAHAHAHAHA
... while I ...
Muahahahahahahahahaha!
... shit myself.
Okay. That's better. Now, please, can you point me at an innovative product of Microsoft's?
Simon
I do think that Microsoft has some little innovations.
For example, just as someone mentioned, the use of (Word)Basic as a
macro language. WordBasic later become VBA, which essentially controls
all aspects of the MS Office applications. Of course, the underlying
work is done by COM/OLE (which I think is another good technology). But
I think allowing the programmer to control any Office applications
through VBA and COM/OLE is truely innovative.
Also, OLE allows one embed document into another different type
document, which I think it is innovative too. Double click the
Excel spreadsheet in a Word document then you can edit it, don't you
think it's creative? I don't know if WordPerfect or Lotus developers in
those years have ever thought this or not.
When we talk Windows 98, do you think that intergating IE into the OS
is innovative? I mean it introduced Web presentation into normal
application (ok, we shouldn't think too much about the buggy IE engine,
but if you can replace it with a faster and securier Mozilla engine,
would you do that?). Think about CHM (help document,ebook), HTA (local
web style application) or Active Desktop (hey, Dashboard in MacOSX?). I
think they are innovative, isn't it?