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Readit Newscanucker2016 commented on Matthew Shulman, co-creator of Intellisense, died 2019 March 22 capenews.net/falmouth/obi... · Posted by u/canucker2016
MS Word and FrameMaker were never considered competitors in the same market.
Aldus Pagemaker was a closer competitor to Framemaker, but Pagemaker's bread and butter was at the lower end of the market.
see this review for MS Word for Windows 1.0. The competitors listed for their benchmarks include Ami Pro, and the DOS versions of WordPerfect and MS Word.
Review: https://computerhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Infow...
For more history on FrameMaker, here's a writeup by one of the founders - https://walden-family.com/david-murray/frame-posted.pdf
The article talks mentions Interleaf as their main competitor.
Take a look at what was possible in the late 1980s with 8 MB of RAM:
https://infinitemac.org/1989/NeXTStep%201.0
You can run NeXTStep in your browser by clicking above link. A couple of weeks ago you could run Framemaker as well. I was blown away by what Framemaker of the late 1980s could do. Today's Microsoft Word can't hold a candle to Framemaker of the late 1980s!
Edit: Here's how you start FrameMaker:
In Finder go to NextDeveloper > Demos > FrameMaker.app
Then open demo document and browse the pages of the demo document. Prepare to be blown away. You could do that in 1989 with like 64 MB of RAM??
In the last 37 years the industry has gone backwards. Microsoft Word has been stagnant due to no competition for the last few decades.
MS Word and FrameMaker were never considered competitors in the same market.
Aldus Pagemaker was a closer competitor to Framemaker, but Pagemaker's bread and butter was at the lower end of the market.
see this review for MS Word for Windows 1.0. The competitors listed for their benchmarks include Ami Pro, and the DOS versions of WordPerfect and MS Word.
Review: https://computerhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Infow...
FrameMaker 1.0 for the NeXTcube required a minimum of 8 MB to 16 MB of RAM.
A web search shows that FrameMaker 1.0 cost $2,500.
wikipedia says that the Windows version, released in 1992, was priced at $500, which cannibalized sales on other platforms.
canucker2016 commented on Claude Code is suddenly everywhere inside Microsoft theverge.com/tech/865689/... · Posted by u/Anon84
It's a word play, if their LLM model sucks too much they'll get someone else's.
I mean they fought the browser war for years, then just used Chrome.
Well, they fought hard until IE6.
Then they took their eyes off the ball - whether it was protecting the Windows fort (why create an app that has all the functionality of an OS that you give away for free - mostly on Windows, some Mac versions, but no Linux support) when people are paying for Windows OR they just diverted the IE devs to some other "hot" product, browser progress stagnated, even with XMLHttpRequest.
canucker2016 commented on Claude Code is suddenly everywhere inside Microsoft theverge.com/tech/865689/... · Posted by u/Anon84
Nadella has the golden ship taking on water right now. He has entirely botched AI top to bottom. He has screwed that up to such a degree that it would be difficult to overstate. If he doesn't correct these mistakes extremely soon, he'll unravel much of the progress he made for Microsoft and they'll miss this generation of advancement (which will be the end of their $3 trillion market cap - as the market has recently perked up to).
There is no tech giant that is more vulnerable than Microsoft is at this moment.
Most document originations will begin out of or adjacent to of LLM sessions in the near future, as everything will blur in terms of collaborating with AI agents. Microsoft has no footing (or worse, their position is terrible courtesy of copilot) and is vulnerable to death by inflection point. Windows 11 is garbage and Google + Linux may finally be coming for their desktop (no different than what AMD has managed in unwinding the former Intel monopoly in PCs).
Someone should be charging at them with a new take on Office, right now. This is where you slice them in half. Take down Office and take down Windows. They're so stupid at present that they've opened the gates to Office being destroyed, which has been their moat for 30 years.
Excel is the lynchpin. But you need to have a story for handling the other Office apps functionality. That's table stakes these days.
canucker2016 commented on Claude Code is suddenly everywhere inside Microsoft theverge.com/tech/865689/... · Posted by u/Anon84
> Microsoft really needs to get a better handle with the naming conventions.
They really won't, though; Microsoft just does this kind of thing, over and over and over. Before everything was named "365", it was all "One", before that it was "Live"... 20 years ago, everything was called ".NET" whether it had anything to do with the Internet or not. Back in the '90s they went crazy for a while calling everything "Active".
The Dev Tools division had Quick- prefix for some tools before settling on Visual- once VB took off.
Then there's DirectX and its subs - though Direct3D had more room for expanded feature set compared to DXSound or DXInput so now they're up to D3D v12.