Microsoft has rarely innovated themselves…
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Melonpoly@lemmy.world 8 months ago
By basically just buying it existing publishers?
Knusper@feddit.de 8 months ago
NotSteve_@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
I think Windows was built in house but on top of DOS which Bill Gates bought off someone
Knusper@feddit.de 8 months ago
Yeah, it started its life as “Quick And Dirty Operating System” (don’t know, why they renamed it) and even that was basically a ripoff of CP/M: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/86-DOS
I guess, you can say that they did put in own effort into developing the windowing system. I wouldn’t want to call that “innovating”, since they were late to the party, but I guess, that would be moving the goal posts here…
ryathal@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
That’s how it works now. You can’t get results in a quarter or two by spinning up your own production company.