Bill Gates on Vista and Apple's 'Lying' Ads (Mac OS X vs Vista)

[Henry McGilton]

On Feb 3, 2007, at 3:08 AM, Mark Smith wrote:

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> On 2 Feb 2007, at 23:52, Scott Stevenson wrote:
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>> On Feb 2, 2007, at 2:40 PM, Andy Lee wrote:
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>>> Who *did* invent the File/Edit/etc. menu convention?
>>
>> It looks like the Apple Lisa group did, according to Bruce Horn:
>> http://daringfireball.net/2007/02/lies_damned_lies_and_bill_gates
>
> I think William the Turd minor is being deliberately disingenuous  
> here. There is no question at all, that the GUI file, edit etc.  
> menus first appeared (to the public) in Apple computers. However, I  
> imagine he would say that he was referring to the fact that console- 
> based programs had invokable commands ordered under file and edit  
> headings as early as the appearance of the mac, possibly earlier.
>
> I can remember a variety of shell and/or DOS tools back in the mid- 
> eighties (circa '84 - '88) that had this and even earlier, there  
> was something that you could argue was analogous (though I can't  
> remember what exactly) on the Spekky, the Vic20 and the BBC (circa  
> '80-'82).
>
> Still, its a new brand of nervously defensive FUD however you look  
> at it.


Engrish.com has this to say about Gates:

<http://www.engrish.com/detail.php? 
imagename=fuckintosh.jpg&category=Adult%20Engrish&date=2005-09-20>


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