Xref: cantaloupe.srv.cs.cmu.edu alt.fan.bill-gates:369 comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy:7333 comp.os.ms-windows.misc:10119
Newsgroups: alt.fan.bill-gates,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Path: cantaloupe.srv.cs.cmu.edu!das-news.harvard.edu!noc.near.net!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!concert!samba!usenet
From: dil.admin@mhs.unc.edu (Dave Laudicina)
Subject: re: Challenge to Microsoft supporters.
Message-ID: <1993Apr30.172938.6386@samba.oit.unc.edu>
Sender: usenet@samba.oit.unc.edu
Nntp-Posting-Host: dil.adp.unc.edu
Organization: UNC Office of Information Technology
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1993 17:29:38 GMT
Lines: 15

>Microsoft is the largest software company on the planet, yet I cannot think
>of even *ONE* computing concept that they innovated and brought to market
>before anyone else.  Xerox-PARC/Apple, Osborne, NeXT, GNU and others have 
>been pioneers and led the way to the future of computing.  What has
>microsoft done to be a technological leader?  I posted this question before,
>but I got nary a reply.  I make the challenge now to anyone who can come up
>with something-especially Microsoft employees.  I get no response this time,
>I guess it pretty much assures me that there is none--which is what I
>suspect anyway.
>
Really when you come down to it who cares. I just hope MS keeps doing
what they do best getting usable productive software to the masses.
Thx Dave L


