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Revising History?

Red Herring and others are speculating on Microsoft's (NASDAQ: MSFT) Ipod competitor today, which is about as interesting as the tech news gets during this semi-work-week. The piece by Cassimir Medford also covers an interesting development in France concerning the government's potential "outlawing" of the Ipod. But are the fact checkers on vacation at Red Herring? Roger Kay of Endpoint Technologies is quoted as follows :
“This will not be the first time that Microsoft trails Apple into the market,” said Mr. Kay. “It took Microsoft a decade after the introduction of the Mac to market Windows, so following Apple into the MP3 market by five years is not that surprising.”

(Some might argue it was a decade before Windows was functionally close to Macintosh, but Microsoft certainly marketed it a lot fewer than ten years after 1984!)

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