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Originally Posted by scastle
Rank Xerox were developing GUIs in the mid to late 70s. Sadly decided not to market them. An idea that must go down in history as being the most stupid idea since the then head of IBM decided in the 50s that "the world would only need five computers".
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<Sigh> It was, according to most sources, *1943* when Thomas Watson predicted the world would never need more than about five computers.
It wasn't until over *thirty* years later with the release of the Altair 8800 kit (originally expected to sell maybe a couple of hundred) that the concept of *individual* computers (as opposed to mainframe devices operated from terminals) became a real possibility and that required the invention of the microchip etc before it was viable.
Whilst Xerox may have been short sighted in not realising the potential of the GUI system there were certainly other more stupid ideas...
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V. True. Every operating system has some security flaws (even Unix & Linux). Windows gets exploited more because it is used by more people
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... Windows (and IE and OE) get exploited more because they have got *so many* holes in because Micro$oft decided that "functionality" was more important than security, which is certainly "An idea that must go down in history as being the most stupid"!
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Back on topic. Personally, I do believe Bill G deserves a knighthood. His marketing of all Microsoft products is excellent,
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Personally I think he deserves a jail sentence for the damage he's done to free competition in the OS and software markets.