Speaking of Desktops [AKA my little rant]

[feba thatl]

Maybe, their force feedback joystick right? I think I remember playing with
one on a store display when I was a kid. But I highly doubt they came up
with the technology, they might've been the first to market though.

There's always http://www.vcnet.com/bms/departments/innovation.shtml for
record keeping, although the site seems years out of date.

On 9/29/07, Leo Mauler <webgiant at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> --- "James R. Sissel" <JimSissel at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
>
> > > I am not a total MS basher, but I hate
> > > watching people calling themselves
> > > innovators, when mostly what they do is
> > > copy other people's innovations (badly).
> >
> > I'm not a total MS basher either.  I've used
> > MS stuff since the Radio Shack Color Computer
> > then to an IBM compatible using every version
> > of MS stuff since DOS 3.2.
>
> I remember all the new features in each new version of
> MSDOS, starting with 3.2 as well.  I also remember the
> folks on UseNet News technology groups pointing out
> that all of Microsoft's new MSDOS features were
> "borrowed" from UNIX.  I definitely remember thinking
> "why can't I just use UNIX on this PC?"
>
> It was only later on that I discovered that the PC
> version of UNIX, Xenix, was also owned by Microsoft.
>
> > And it's fair to say when Microsoft finally
> > comes out with something good and/or
> > innovative I'll be sure to give them credit.
>
> Didn't they come out with a particularly innovative
> joystick about ten years ago?
>
>
>
>
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