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Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 and 64-bit "extended" versions of Windows are pushed back to next year.
Microsoft has fallen behind schedule with the development of three upgrades to Windows and is pushing back the timetable for delivering the software, the company disclosed Tuesday.
To read more about it
http://www.informationweek.com/story...cleID=26100237
no doubt they are probably trying to figure out how to make ie better than firefox ;)
In order for that to happen microsoft is going to have to work pretty damn hard to pull that one off. and develop some kick ass code for it.
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Originally posted here by er0k
no doubt they are probably trying to figure out how to make ie better than firefox ;)
Wouldn't that involve basically scrapping IE and starting from scratch with a whole new browser? :D
it does kind of make sense that they push the update back since there are not very many patches... not only that, but they have been putting so much effort into sp2 for windows xp...
It's not like they wrote IE to begin with.Quote:
Originally posted here by Maverick811
Wouldn't that involve basically scrapping IE and starting from scratch with a whole new browser? :D
i would like to see proof of that... i will agree they tried to get a browser monopoly, but stealing the original source??
Look at KMFMS. They got the source to Mosaic supposedly, and after re-writing few things gave it away free as IE, which put the other company out. KMFMS has no reasons to lie, but if they are, they sure put a lot of effort into it.
that is enough proof for me -- you win and i learned something new
Djscribble this link will tell you more about KMFMS.
http://www.kmfms.com
Also to add....
The first iteration of IE looked exactly like Netscape who beat it hands down until MS built it into the OS. Who is to say MS isn't copying open source browsers as we speak. Hell they used Gzip in Outlook/Exchange 2003. They severely reduced bandwidth requirements using outlook and exchange to my happiness I might add. Know how they do it.... Gzip yo.
Hehehe I found a site that has screen shots of very old netscape 0.91 and mosaic 0.4 browsers. this will either bring back happy memories or nightmares that you thought were left behind Muhahahahaha
http://sillydog.org/narchive/
And here is something very interesting.
http://www.blooberry.com/indexdot/history/ie.htm
Microsoft was built on theft.
1) DOS (QDOS then) was actually robbed from a Seattle developer for 50K so that they could pitch it to IBM.
2) Windows was stolen from Apple (who did not steal it from Xerox)
3) IE was lifted as Gore has pointed out.
Here: http://users.aol.com/machcu/msrise.html
There was a rumor that Bill Gates also stole computer time to do BASIC. this may be a small crime but back then computer cycles were NOT cheap for people, and I'm not sure where I read this, which is why I do not say it's fact, but it was on a web page showing things Microsoft had done wrong to gain ahead.
I'll see if I can find the articles and post them here. Actually, I'll edit this post if I can find them so I don't have to waste a post on it. If it's true or not, I don't know, but it's a cool page showing them stealing things.
Some of these are just silly, but they do have SOME good points, and almost all anti-Microsoft stuff has a few reasons listed because of what thye have stolen.
http://www.zdnet.co.uk/talkback/?PRO...651t-10000022c
http://www.euronet.nl/users/frankvw/...t/IhateMS.html
http://www.****microsoft.com/
On the pages in those links they have a pretty good listing of things.
http://www.vcnet.com/bms/departments/catalog/
Finally! I found one of the pages I was looking for!
http://www.vcnet.com/bms/departments...rcatalog.shtml
That's a list of the compannies they have ****ed over, and it's by year. The link above that one is the main page where you can browse by year like I just gave the link to do, or by company.
We can just simply state that because of other businesses bad practices, etc, this allowed Gates to lie, cheat, and steal his way into a product that became the desktop standard. I remember when Gates couldn't GIVE his OS away...imagine if he had grouped with IBM?
Look at networking in general, the cat5 cable, the mouse, the touchscreen monitors, the lightpens....these are all the genius of Xerox, who tried to build a "paperless" office and for the most part, they did..but they dropped the project (or something similar) and everyone else swept up the technology and made money off them...
Hmm looks this thread opened more than a can of worms with this topic.
Thanks for those links guys I am sure it will shock some people when they read them. and it just might be the thing that breaks the camels back and makes them switch to a different O.S.