Word: dos
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...means a lot to me," said Annbela Dos Ramos, another Harrington School fourth grader...
...said that the functionality of Windows has increased substantially over time. Many years ago, DOS 2.1, containing 3,000 lines of code, cost $150. Today, Windows 98 contains about 20 million lines of code and costs about...
...Trust Act targets monopolies which rely on market power rather than market merit is amusing. I would like to ask: Does Microsoft truly possess a monopoly because its products are far and away the top in their field, or is it instead because of the chance licensing of the DOS operating system by IBM for the PC, which led to a massive install base for Windows and all its descendants? The writer continually uses Microsoft's favorite word, "innovation," without realizing that Microsoft's gifts lie not in original thinking or research and development but instead assimilation and adaptation...
Perhaps. But Linux still has a long way to go in the dumb-like-me consumer market. Windows' main claim to fame is its relative ease of use--at least compared to MS-DOS. Or raw Linux. Until the Linuxians create a system that's as easy to use as Windows--or better still, the Mac--Microsoft has nothing to worry about. Well, almost nothing...
...course, all four trials -- besides the Washington and Connecticut versions, there's one in California over Java, and another in Utah about DOS (how's that for relevance?) -- talk about pretty much the same thing: Microsoft's leveraging its platform dominance into software dominance. Bristol (which makes a product called Wind/U that is meant to bridge the code gulf between Windows and a competitor, Unix, and vice versa) says Microsoft withheld the NT code to keep Bristol -- and Unix programmers -- out of the software game now dominated by Windows-viable products. Microsoft, unsurprisingly, denies the claim. But after Gates pulled...