First of all Windows 3.1 was copied (Albeit very poorly) from the Mac.
Apple Sued M$ for the copying of their setup, and in the end M$ settled out of court with Apple saying that they would write programs for the Macintosh, which they previously hadn't been doing... Apple took the deal.
Windows NT then copied the Mac better, renaming the Mac's "Trash Can" to the "Recycle Bin". This was the first Windows OS to implement Apple's idea of the Trash Can.
It was also the first Windows OS that could't get it's own TCP/IP implementation right until after you had installed SP2 or above. This resulted in the fact that you couldn't start or join TCP/IP based Windows NT domains until you had installed SP2 or above.... Until SP2 came out, you were stuck running the non-routable NetBEUI... Or for those admins who needed routable protocols, there was always NetBIOS over IPX/SPX ]}:- >
Everyone who has supported or even used computers long enough, remembers the nightmares of Windows NT SP5 and 6... which resulted in a quick release of SP7 (aka SP6a)....
Then came Windows '95... The only OS I know of (apart from Win Me) that had more bugs than a cockroach nest. Consequently it had to undergo numerous revisions (each with different "features" and didn't even support USB properly until OSR 2.1 - 2.5.) This OS was the one that had the exact same desktop layout as Windows NT. It was also the OS that broke most of the applications around for Windows at the time, as it "tried" to run in 32 bit mode...
Macintosh users were faced with the same dilemma in 1989 when Apple's "System 6.0.7" OS was released... Minus about 2000 bugs and it truly ran in 32 bit mode. Users had about 6 months to run their legacy applications until the 32 bit lock came down hard and ppl were then forced to get the 32 bit versions of the apps.
This is why the slogan came about... "Windows '95 = Macintosh '89"
... See http://www.theapplecollection.com/Collection/pin/PinsBadges.html for details.Macintosh OS's from System 6.0 through OS X are "all in one" OSs... That is they fully support any technology that was around at the time, and they did it without the majority of bugs that M$ OSs release for their clients to "beta" test.
I aren't saying that Mac is better than the PC here, as I use both and I support both, But on a timeline of OSs, MacOS sure as hell beat the crap out of any OS that M$ created on or around the same date, MacOS had less crashes due to the way that it's apps have to be programmed, in order to maintain compatibility between Macintosh Systems. Also if you look at the amount of issues with both the OS's there are far more patches needed to bring an M$ OS upto operating standard than there are for the Mac.
In fact the one thing that Mi?ro$oft are good at is patching their OS's, and sometimes they aren't even good at that! I guess when PC users get tired of all the M$ Bull$#!+... There's always Linux / Winlux / QNX ....
??? Hasta Lu?go !!!
Gazz.
