...Oh, I think Intel did some fairly major development work in that time scale too, didn't they?
I don't expect any company to be a charity: making profit is its purpose. I get pissed off to be sold a crap product, and then be told that buying another one will solve my problem, and then again, and then again --- while some guy gets exceedingly rich on the proceeds.
From DOS beginnings, Gate's products have been pretty awful, and it has always been marketing and destroying the opposition that gave him his success, which began, by the way, with a family contact in IBM.
Hey... Guys, enjoy your vista. Obviously this is not my party... I'll stop ranting.
