LMAO!!! Dumb and dumber!!! Of course a lying jailbird like you who's been humiliated and discredited by me repeatedly would side with the lunatic who claims there's no innovation in more than 10K patents. Grow up little boy.
LOL Read the history of Microsoft http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Microsoft MS bought 86-dos from SCP after it was awarded the contract to provide a version of the cp/m system. The gui itself was developed by Xerox. After IBM awarded MS the contract, it become the spec for the ibm-pc. MS then started providing software to ibm-clones. MS pushed wordperfect, lotus 1-2-3, netscape and what not out of the market, by bundling products and providing discounts to oems on the OPERATING SYSTEM. Microsoft's litigation history is clean, LOL Microsoft has also fought numerous legal battles against private companies. The most prominent ones are against: Alcatel-Lucent, which won US$1.52 billion in a lawsuit which alleged that Microsoft had infringed its patents on playback of audio files. This ruling was overturned in a higher court[31] Apple Inc. (known as Apple Computer, Inc. at the time), which accused Microsoft in the late 1980s of copying the "look and feel" of the graphical user interface of Apple's operating systems. The courts ruled in favor of Microsoft in 1994. Another suit by Apple accused Microsoft, along with Intel and the San Francisco Canyon Company, in 1995 of knowingly stealing several thousand lines of QuickTime source code in an effort to improve the performance of Video for Windows.[32][33][34][35] After a threat to withdraw support for Office for Mac,[36][37] this lawsuit was ultimately settled in 1997. Apple agreed to make Internet Explorer the default browser over Netscape, and Microsoft agreed to continue developing Office and other software for the Mac for the next 5 years, purchase $150 million of non-voting Apple stock, and made a quiet payoff estimated to be in the US$500 million-$2 billion range.[38][39][40][41] AOL, on behalf of its Netscape division. Netscape (as an independent company) also was involved in the United States v. Microsoft antitrust suit. Be Inc., which accused Microsoft of exclusionary and anticompetitive behavior intended to drive Be out of the market. Be even offered to license its Be Operating System (BeOS) for free to any PC vendors who would ship it pre-installed, but the vendors declined due to what Be believes were fears of pricing retaliation from Microsoft: by raising the price of Microsoft Windows for one particular PC vendor, Microsoft could price that vendor's PCs out of the market.[42] Bristol Technology Inc., which accused Microsoft illegally withheld Windows source code and used its dominant position with Windows to move into other markets[43][44][45]. A ruling later ordered Microsoft to pay $1 Million to Bristol Technologies[46]. Burst.com, which claims that Microsoft stole Burst's patented technology for delivering high speed streaming sound and video content on the internet. Also at issue in the case is a 35-week period of missing emails in the evidence Microsoft handed over to Burst which was discovered by Burst.com's lawyers. Burst accuses Microsoft of crafting a 30 day email deletion policy specifically to cover up illegal activity. Microsoft settled with the company for $60 million in exchange for an agreement to license some of the company's technologies.[47][48][49] Eolas and University of California, which accused Microsoft of using some of its software patents in their web browser, won $521 million in court.[50] Caldera, which accused Microsoft of having modified Windows 3.1 so that it would not run on DR DOS 6 although there was no technical reason for it not to work.[51] Some claim that Microsoft put encrypted code in five otherwise unrelated Microsoft programs in order to prevent the functioning of DR DOS in pre-releases (beta versions) of Windows 3.1.[52] Microsoft settled out-of-court for an undisclosed sum. Opera, which accused Microsoft of intentionally making its MSN service incompatible with the Opera browser on several occasions. Sendo, which accused Microsoft of terminating their partnership so it could steal Sendo's technology to use in Windows Smartphone 2002.[53] Spyglass, which licensed its browser to Microsoft in return for a percentage of each sale; Microsoft turned the browser into Internet Explorer and bundled it with Windows, giving it away to gain market share but effectively destroying any chance of Spyglass making money from the deal they had signed with Microsoft; Spyglass sued for deception and won a $8 million settlement.[54] Stac Electronics, which accused Microsoft of stealing its data compression code and using it in MS-DOS 6.[55] Microsoft eventually lost the subsequent lawsuit and was ordered by a federal court to pay roughly $120 million in compensation.[56] Sun Microsystems, which held Microsoft in violation of contract for including a modified version of Java in Microsoft Windows that provided Windows-specific extensions to Sun's Java language; Microsoft lost this decision in court and were forced to stop shipping their Windows-specific Java Virtual Machine. Microsoft eventually ceased to include any Java Virtual Machine in Windows, and Windows users who require a Java Virtual Machine need to download the software or otherwise acquire a copy from a source other than Microsoft. WordPerfect Many other smaller companies have filed patent abuse and predatory practice suits against Microsoft. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft
MRBRETTONWOODS is a total ignoramus and nutcase so it's impossible to have a rational discussion with him. I'm just fascinated by how frantically he defends his GRAND DELUSION that MSFT never innovated anything. Maybe next he'll claim that Warren Buffett is broke.
To the pompous BS artist: So you continue to deny cp/m, you deny SCP and 86-dos, and you deny the Xerox OS even now, which is basic fact. Still wandering about in your fantasy world. You still have not named the 1 magic internally innovated successful product out of 10,000. NOT 1 OUT OF 10,000. THAT IS 10 WITH THREE ZEROS. Name all the great Microsoft innovations..... Until you do so, you are an outright fraud.
To the jaded, jealous, ignorant loser: LMAO!!!! Is that the best you can do? You're pathetic. You two were talking about the innovation behind WINDOWS... and the only lawsuit you posted alleging that anything significant was copied to develop WINDOWS was decided in favor of Microsoft. You need professional help.
To the jaded, jealous, ignorant loser: You're too easy! Again you lie to protect your delusion. I didn't deny them and I've told you that before: http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&postid=2506270#post2506270 As for Microsoft's innovation... what part of 10,000+ patents don't you understand? Get off of your lazy ass and research them yourself. Your desperation to maintain your GRAND DELUSION is pathetic. Please get professional help. NOW.
To the pompous BS spam artist: Windows origins are closely tied to 86-dos, cp/m and xerox, that is fact. Copying is not "innovation". You keep avoiding the question, where is the one successful innovated product? YOU STILL CANNOT NAME EVEN ONE...... So you still haven't found the magic one out of 10,000. No wonder why you are so acrimonious. NOT ONE OUT OF 10,000 lol Name all the great Microsoft innovations..... Until you do so, you are an outright fraud.
To the jaded, jealous, ignorant loser: Patents are not granted for copying. You keep failing to justify your GRAND DELUSION that there's no innovation in Microsoft's 10,000+ patents. What part of 10,000+ patents don't you understand? Get off of your lazy ass and research them yourself. Then you can see as many innovations as you want. I'm not your mommy, I'm not doing it for you. Do you also need help using the bathroom? Please get professional help for your delusions and denial.
To the pompous BS spam artist: You keep avoiding the question, where is the one successful innovated product? NAME THE MAGIC ONE...... t's your claim for 10,000 so-called innvoations, you cannot do your own research how pathetic. So you still haven't found the magic one out of 10,000. No wonder why you are so acrimonious. NOT ONE OUT OF 10,000 lol Name all the great Microsoft innovations..... Until you do so, you are an outright fraud
To the jaded, jealous, ignorant loser: I hadn't posted in over 3 hours and it took you 8 minutes to respond to me THAT'S NOT GOOD ENOUGH. I want you sitting at your computer 24 hours/day, 7 days a week waiting for me to post. You keep failing to justify your GRAND DELUSION that there's no innovation in Microsoft's 10,000+ patents. What part of 10,000+ patents don't you understand? Get off of your lazy ass and research them yourself. Then you can see as many innovations as you want. I'm not your mommy, I'm not doing it for you. What part of that don't you understand? Do you also need help using the bathroom? Please get professional help for your delusions and denial but ONLY by telephone so you can be at your computer 24/7 to reply to my messages.