fakedsysadmin - 4:28 pm on Oct 15, 2008 (gmt 0)

"Be honest, can you think of one, just one, genuinely useful innovation that can be attributed to Microsoft?"

In the early 80s, Microsoft was the only software company that marketed two operating systems for PCs: Xenix (high end) and DOS (low end).

Microsoft was probably the first software company to adapt Unix to run on PCs.

Then, in terms of user interface, Windows 95 was a killer app. Just read Miguel de Icaza's comments at [linuxfocus.org...] : "When I saw Windows 95 for the first time I thought 'We are lost, we have lost the edge! We completely neglected the interface and the have beatem us up'."