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Originally posted by LCC:
Amiga was doing ALL event driven software in 85. They were also doing concurrent multitasking in multiple windows, which it took ten YEARS for MS to support after they had killed off Amiga and Atari. So you would have had these "advanced" system features on the typical PC 15 YEARS ago without MS. Amiga was the very first machine with a Genlock VCR interface. The list could go on for quite a while. What if ANYTHING did MS do first ??? Check the companies they drove out of business for lost products before you reply.....
I carefully reread my post, and I can't find anywhere in there where I said Microsoft did anything first or best. My comments about the future don't even require MS to be around (smart money says they'll be there for a while, though) but mainstream Users want the features that are in Windows, and even more. I don't care if it's MS or Amiga or whoever, they are going to have to handle all of the different functionality, and that means a ton of background code doing all of it. When I write a dialog for Windows, I don't have to write any code to handle the mouse, or the keyboard, or anything like that. It's all handled by MFC (same with Delphi, VB or any other tool used to put the dialog together). The same situation would be true on any other GUI-based platform. As for the handhelds that may someday take the place of the desktops, what do you think they run as an OS? Windows CE.