Why did Microsoft sell a crappy OS for over twenty years 3274
Once upon a midnight dreary, while alt pondered weak and weary over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore...:
I have an additional tidbit, something to think about maybe...
Cray introduced the 64-bit processor to the HPC market in the late 80's. Silicon Graphics' subsidiary did the same for high-end graphics workstations in the 90's. Both systems ran Unix. Since the turn of the century, the Linux community has been working on 64-bit kernels. Where was Microsoft?
Jim Waiting for memory prices to go lower than $15.00 a megabyte. 64 bit computing uses memory about half as efficiently as 32 bit computing, so The 1 gigabyte of Ram...
Holding back the entire desktop in 32-bit land. Not because of technological prowess. Power of numbers. Nobody saw incentive to build a mbuttmarket 64-bit processor until AMD listened to the cries of the open source community and released the dual-core Opteron. -- You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the old model obsolete. - R. Buckminster Fuller