may still be true in 2009. Here's Steve Jobs in 1996, talking about Microsoft who, by that time, just released Windows 95. The sound is completely out of sync, so my apologies for that.

Here's the transcript.

The only problem with Microsoft is they have no taste. They have absolutely no taste and what that means is ... I don't mean that in a small way, I mean that in a big way. In a sense that ... they ... they don't think of original ideas and they don't bring much culture into their product. And you say "why is that important?". Well, proportionally spaced fonts come from typesetting in beautiful books, that's where one gets the idea. If it weren't for the Mac, they would never have that in their products. ... Erm ... And ... So I, I guess, I am saddened, not by Microsoft's success. I have no problem with their success. They've earned their success - for the most part. I have a problem with the fact they just make really third-rate products.

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