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Originally Posted by David F
Well as it happens a simple Google of early MAc updates somes with some very interesting results. Macs First OS (I think) was simply called System 1 which had a little folder creation error which required the release of system 1.1 as early as 1984
There is quite a list of such patches under Mac
http://applemuseum.bott.org/sections/os.html
Windows did not hit the market till 1985  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Windows
guess its not just Bill Gates to blame after all |
You're comparing apples with oranges there. Windows 1.0 was not an operating system, it was an extension for MS-DOS, which was pretty flawed itself back in 1985. Meanwhile Mac OS 'System 1' was a full GUI-based operating system.
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Originally Posted by The Great God Wikipedia, for he is Lord
The first independent version of Microsoft Windows, version 1.0, released on November 20, 1985, lacked a degree of functionality and achieved little popularity. It was originally going to be called Interface Manager, but Rowland Hanson, the head of marketing at Microsoft, convinced the company that the name Windows would be more appealing to consumers. Windows 1.0 was not a complete operating system, but rather extended MS-DOS, and shared the latter's inherent flaws and problems. |
(Emphasis added by me).
Now, to the issue of whose fault it is for creating the culture of 'release first, bug-fix later'.
You don't prove that Apple created this issue simply by showing that they were better than Microsoft at creating a GUI-based OS and getting it to market years before MS did. You don't prove it by showing that System 1 had bugs in it either. The very word 'bug' is used because the concept dates back to the earliest computers, when real insects attracted to the hot components could cause short circuits, and therefore system crashes. Neither MS nor Apple created the concept of a bug.
But the OP wasn't asking who made the first bugs. He asked what was responsible for an apparent move from largely (though not exclusively) right-first-time software, to products where bugs and regular patches are apparently the accepted norm.
I would say Bill Gates and his crew bear a great degree of responsibility for this because of the ubiquity of Windows on modern PC desktops - if it were Apple that was constantly releasing famously buggy software, it would only ever be a footnote in the news because Apple computers, and therefore Apple's OS, are not nearly so widely used.
Last word to David Bradley of IBM: "I may have invented Control-Alt-Delete, but
Bill Gates made it famous".
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Originally Posted by Maggy J
So what are one's rights when it comes to software that should work on your system according to the specs given but doesn't?Can you demand your money back?
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Yes. The Sale of Goods Act (as amended) applies to computer software as much as anything else. If it is not fit for its advertised purpose, you are entitled to a full refund - from the shop that sold you the software, incidentally, not the manufacturer.