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User profile for user: Jon Leslie
Jon Leslie Author
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Wouldn't it be cool if Steve Jobs did a Keynote on Apple gaming computer's.

I have seen allot of PC lovers bash on Apple computers because Apple computers cant handle gaming. It would be cool if Steve Jobs put together a keynote to clear up allot of fairytales that the PC user's like to come up with. I always say to PC user's "your just upset cause you just found out that Bill Gates worked for Apple and stole from Apple. Nothing that Bill Gates comes out with is not his original idea but ideas from Apple and other companies."

Man do the PC user's get made when I post that. When I post the specs of my computer on a Gaming PC site they say that I am lying about the whole thing and when I put up the link to www.apple.com they get extremely mad and say that were being lied to. But the funny thing is that a couple of them actually went and bought an Apple computer. They left comments saying

"I wished I had done this sooner, cause I can play pc games using bootcamp and the computer the system runs smoother. But I like the fact that I can buy other games and get full resolution when in OS X."

These people were Pro PC fan's. lol. But back to my question, will Steve Jobs do a Keynote on Apple gaming machines?

Also, does any1 know when Modern Warfare 2 is coming out for Mac?

Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.4)

Posted on Jan 9, 2011 2:45 PM

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User profile for user: Allan Sampson
Allan Sampson
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Jan 9, 2011 3:48 PM in response to Jon Leslie

Bill Gates was never an Apple employee.

He was one of the early software developers and an important one for the Apple platform, but he was never an Apple employee. Excel and later Word were originally written for the Mac by Microsoft long before Windows and later Office for Windows was available. Apple's GUI was copied by MS - poorly but copied nevertheless based on a poorly written agreement between Apple and Microsoft at the time which Steve Jobs had nothing to do with. The obvious copying resulted in a lawsuit filed by Apple which was eventually settled out of court. Everything could not be copied or copied effectively by MS but a copy it is.
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User profile for user: Jon Leslie
Jon Leslie Author
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Jan 9, 2011 4:15 PM in response to Allan Sampson

yeah ur right I am sorry, he wasnt an employee but nether the less he created MS in the early 90's. This is why Bill gates retired from full time chairman, because of all the lawsuits. I am not sure if he totally retired from MS though, I am not to sure. But MS is in deep trouble they are actually losing allot of money and allot of revenue. They are still breaking laws on © stuff. I keep an eye on MS and I am seeing them not doing very well. Way at the beginning Bill Gates showed up at a convention with an operating system. Steve Job's walked by and saw Apples OS on Bill Gates computer. Bill Gates later settled out of court so not to hurt his reputation. But it still got the best of him even tho he had earned his billions by stealing from other companies especially Apple. It gets even deeper than this, I looked up the lawsuit and it was a big mess. Any ways Bill Gates showed up on a computer magazine not sure which one and he was sitting amongst a bunch of Apple computers and the statement said "Apple computers are a superior computer." or something like that.

The history of both of these companies have struggled especially Apple cause of what Bill Gates did to them.
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User profile for user: deggie
deggie
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Jan 9, 2011 6:46 PM in response to Jon Leslie

No wonder your PC using friends get mad at you, you can't get your facts straight.

Microsoft was formed by Bill Gates & Paul Allen on April 4, 1975.

He certainly did not retire from Microsoft because of any lawsuits.

They are still very profitable and are not in any financial trouble.

They are not breaking any laws that I know of, or anyone else for that matter. (Both Apple and Microsoft are co-defendants in some current lawsuits.)

And I'm not even going to address the rest of your nonsense.
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User profile for user: Jon Leslie
Jon Leslie Author
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Jan 9, 2011 7:00 PM in response to deggie

actually MS was formed in early 1990's. I also didnt say he retired I said he retired from full time and I also said I am not sure if he retired from part time aswell. They are in financial trouble, u can look the records up on the internet. Microsoft has allot of lawsuits against them. You can take a look at the Windows OS and tell that he had stolen from other companies and stolen big time from Apple. Apple was established either in 1972 or 1974 I would have to look that up again, but Apple was around since the 70's. But you also have to remember there was another Apple company around during that time as well. Bill Gates didn't start MS in the 70's. He started it in the 90's the first Window OS was in the early 90's. Apple bought out Macintosh in the mid 80's.

1989: Apple introduces its long awaited portable Macintosh: the Powerbook. Standard sized keyboard, built in trackball for a mouse, and LCD screen
1990: Apple introduces its low-end Macintoshes: The Classic, LC and IISI.
1990: March: Apple Macintosh 'IIfx' introduced. The first real 'orphan' of the Macintosh line. Based on a 40mHz version of the 68030 microprocessor, Apple selected a rather odd 64 pin SIMM memory module for this unit that was never used again in any other Apple computer. This caused the unit to be unusually expensive to upgrade as the rest of the Macintosh II series of computers returned to more common configurations of memory.

1991: Apple releases the System 7.0 operating system for Macintosh.
1991: Major changes among PC dealers as ComputerLand acquires Nynex's computer stores, CompuCom acquires Computer Factory, ValCom and Inacomp merge, JWP buys Businessland and Intelligent Electronics acquires BizMart.
1991: Apple and IBM sign a historic deal--including two joint ventures: Kaleida will develop multimedia products, Taligent will develop object-oriented operating software.
1991: Apple rolls out its PowerBook notebook and Quadra Macintosh PCs.
1992: The core of Apple's lawsuit versus Microsoft Windows is "settled out of court."
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User profile for user: BDAqua
BDAqua
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Jan 9, 2011 7:14 PM in response to Jon Leslie

Hi Jon, Funny about that gaming thing... I have both Macs & PCs, with the same game on both I always prefer it on the Mac, not sure why, since it's often faster on my PCs!?

BTW, ,Atari was dissed for not being a serious computer platform because it was a great Game Machine... LOL, I still use Ataris in my Biz as my most important Computers! 😀
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User profile for user: Old Toad
Old Toad
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Jan 9, 2011 7:18 PM in response to Jon Leslie

The following is from Microsoft Corporation

Key Dates:
1975: Microsoft is founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen; they sell BASIC, the first PC computer language program to MITS Computer, Microsoft's first customer.
1981: Microsoft, Inc. is incorporated; IBM uses Microsoft's 16-bit operating system for its first personal computer.
1982: Microsoft, U.K., Ltd. is incorporated.
1983: Paul Allen resigns as executive vice-president but remains on the board; Jon Shirley is made president of Microsoft (he later becomes CEO); Microsoft introduces the Microsoft Mouse and Word for MS-DOS 1.00.
1985: Microsoft and IBM forge a joint development agreement.
1986: Microsoft stock goes public at $21 per share.
1987: The company's first CD-ROM application, Microsoft Bookshelf, is released.
1990: Jon Shirley retires as president and CEO; Michael R. Hallman is promoted in Shirley's place; the company becomes the first PC software firm to surpass $1 billion of sales in a single year.
1992: Bill Gates is awarded the National Medal of Technology for Technological Achievement.
1993: The company introduces Windows NT.
1995: Bill Gates publishes his first book, The Road Ahead.
1996: The company acquires Vermeer Technologies and its software application, FrontPage.
1997: The Justice Department alleges that Microsoft violated a 1994 consent decree concerning licensing the Windows operating system to computer manufacturers.
1998: The U.S. Department of Justice files two antitrust cases against Microsoft, alleging the company had violated the Sherman Act.
2000: The company acquires Visio Corporation, its largest acquisition to date.
2001: Microsoft Windows XP is released internationally.
2003: Microsoft launches Windows Server 2003.


Here's a video history of Micorsoft complete with an interview with Bill Gates:

The History of Microsoft - 1975



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User profile for user: Ronda Wilson
Ronda Wilson
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Jan 9, 2011 9:03 PM in response to Jon Leslie

Maybe you're thinking about the development of Microsoft Windows in the 1990s? Certainly, Microsoft came into existence long before that (1975), and became a public traded company in 1986.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft

According to that article, as of June of last year, Bill Gates was still chairman of the board at Microsoft, so it would appear that he is not entirely out of the picture.

Only Bill Gates knows for certain why he retired from Microsoft, but his subsequent actions (and statements at the time and later) would indicate that he wanted to pursue philanthropic goals.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gates#Philanthropy

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,1977363,00.asp

Apple may have struggled in the past, but it is a vibrant company now. I certainly would not blame all of Apple's past problems on Microsoft. In fact, Microsoft played a major role in getting Apple back on its feet at, perhaps, Apple's lowest point.

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/cyberspace/july-dec97/apple_8-6a.html
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