[X4U] Well, well

[Zane H. Healy]

As "the lead architect for Windows 95" there is a good chance his idea of
studying Apple may have been to listen to a report from an underling.  Said
underling probably knew better than to talk nice about an Apple product at
Microsoft.

Zane

> 
> Perhaps that points out one of Microsoft's major weak points. Their  
> idea of studying the competitor may well be very weak. I'd say this is  
> born out of arrogance. After all they (Microsoft) have been the  
> dominant PC OS supplier in the world for a long time.
> 
> Apple is an arrogant company in some ways, but the one thing Apple  
> does better than most other retail companies, is that it has not  
> forgotten that the must serve their customers with premium products  
> both hardware and software wise.
> 
> Jens
> 
> 
> 
> On Jul 23, 2008, at 1:52 PM, alexandre wrote:
> 
> >> the guy's really not convincing: he says he studied them (apple) as  
> >> a competitor yet he tried a mac for the first time 2 years ago!
> >>
> >> alexandre
> >> 17" 2.33ghz ic2d macbook pro / 2.0gb / 160gb / X.5.3
> >> 24" 2.33ghz ic2d imac / 3.0gb / 1Tb / X.5.3
> >>
> >>
> >> On Jul 23, 2008, at 18:28 , Paul Moortgat wrote:
> >>
> >>> 3. - IPODOBSERVER - WINDOWS 95 ARCHITECT SWITCHES TO MAC AND IPHONE
> >>> Satoshi Nakajima was a software engineer for Microsoft for
> >>> 14 years and was the lead architect for Windows 95.  Two
> >>> years ago he tried a Mac for the first time and says that
> >>> he'll never touch a PC again, according to cult of mac.com.
> >>> These days, he's writing software for the iPhone.
> >>> <http://www.ipodobserver.com/story/36640>
> 
> Jens Selvig
> ...Lost in Montana...
> 
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