Video Asylum

Posted by dbphd (A) on April 15, 2007 at 11:34:22

In Reply to: Easy solution: Just don't buy Sony hardware or Microsoft products. posted by oscar on April 14, 2007 at 11:16:18:

Those of us with an association with Stanford got the original Macs at deep discount, and I've been a Mac user ever since, now on the new 20" Intel iMac that looks a bit like a flat panel TV. I ask you MS bashers what you use for a spreadsheet if it's not the venerable Excel or for word processing if not Word. These programs have been around for years and have served us well. Don't confuse those with the various MS OS that have tried to emulate the Macintosh graphical user interface (GUI) over the years. I used a GUI and mouse contraption at SRI before the group went to ZEROX PARC where Steve Jobs saw an implementtion of a GUI. That stuff ran on a maxed out DEC PDP-11 at SRI. I used it to edit my papers; it seemed miraculous compared to editing in TICO, or cutting, pasting, and retyping.

Sure Steve Jobs may be an innovative artist compared to business entrepreneur Bill Gates, but so what? MS has done some fine software, just as Sony makes some fine video equiment.

db