Microsoft caught CHEATING Again Vista News Discuss Microsoft caught CHEATING Again in the Windows Vista forums; Originally Posted by nhawlman Gates wants to rule the world, and he's getting close. Is he the Biblical "Beast" ? Don't we wonder where Windows came from ? ...

[Snuffy]

Originally Posted by nhawlman

Gates wants to rule the world, and he's getting close. Is he the Biblical "Beast" ?

Don't we wonder where Windows came from ? How did Gates get it from Geoworks? Where did Windows Explorer come from? How did he get it from Xtree? Where did IE come from? How did he get it from Netscape?

Monopolies STINK !!

nhawlman

Part 1. Don't we wonder where Windows came from ? How did Gates get it from Geoworks? Answer: MS Windows was first. Geos is still there, so recon Bill did not steal from them.

Microsoft Windows is the name of several families of software operating systems by Microsoft. Microsoft first introduced an operating environment named Windows in November 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces (GUIs).

Part 2. Where did Windows Explorer come from? How did he get it from Xtree? Answer: XTree and Explorer.

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XTree is rated by most computer magazines as 5 X better then Explorer.. NP. Since XTree only supports Windows - No Windows then No Xtree.

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Part 3. Where did IE come from? How did he get it from Netscape? Answer Netscape was not heard of when IE was introduced.

The creation
One of the central figures in the Netscape story is Marc Andreessen, cofounder of Netscape Communications Corporation and co-author of Mosaic at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications.
After his graduation from Illinois in 1993,

Netscape Navigator, also known as Netscape, was a proprietary web browser that was popular during the 1990s. Once the flagship product of Netscape Communications Corporation and the dominant browser in usage share, its user base had almost completely evaporated by 2002, partly due to the inclusion of Microsoft's Internet Explorer web browser with the Windows operating system, but also due to lack of significant innovation after the late 1990s.

Windows introduced Explorer in 1985 with Windows 3.1 while the Founder if Netscrape was in Grade school..

For the AOL Lovers: AOL buys Netscape for $4.2 billion
America Online announces that it will acquire Netscape Communications in a deal valued at $4.2 billion.
By Sandeep Junnarkar and Tim Clark
Staff Writer, CNET News.com

Published: November 24, 1998, 12:35 PM PST
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Without AOL there would be no Netscape...today.

[JoshW02@hotmail.co.uk]

Way to hit back Snuffy Gates the is God!

[Vistanoob]

Wow! Another illuminating post! Very interesting and informative.

[Vistanoob]

To get a good idea why users are so upset at the stealth updates, try googling "stealth updates to Vista" from first hit, on down you will get a good perspective on this, and better understand the real issue. I found several enlightening articles.