[SeekAndFind]

RE: And in the early ‘80s Microsoft fell well behind Lotus 1-2-3 in electronic spread sheet sales

Microsoft killed the 1-2-3 product with Excel, now the spreadsheet standard that almost everyone is using.

Microsoft also killed WordPerfect with MS- Word, now the word processing standard that almost everyone is using.

Need I mention Powerpoint, which almost everyone uses for slide shows?

As for networking, what ever happened to the once popular Novel Netware? Microsoft killed them too.

[OneWingedShark]

Microsoft also killed WordPerfect with MS- Word, now the word processing standard that almost everyone is using.

I still use WordPerfect.

[zeugma]

Does no one at all remember how microsoft used what was called "competitive upgrades" to syphon customers from Lotus, WordPerfect, and Harvard Graphics? They didn't charge $300 for MS-Office, because they had the huge cash cow of MS-Windows bringing the money in so they could undersell everyone else and drive them out of business.

Does no one remember the fake error messages windows would generate if it detected you were running DR-DOS?

Does no one remember what microsoft did once they'd driven netscape out of the market? How long did IE 5 hang around with practically no work or improvements being done to it. How long did it take them to finally incorporate TABS into their crappy browsers? People who talk about microsoft innovations have short memories.

I hate microsoft because their software is a bunch of bug ridden virus magnets, and because of all the huge roadblocks microsoft has created over the years to hinder interoperability.

[CodeToad]

“Microsoft killed them too.”

BS. Novell killed themselves. Like Borland and others they simply produced lousy software for a high price and stopped competing. Bill didn’t have to have the most perfect software; he simply showed up every morning and competed. The rest flew off in their expensive jets, literally.