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		melling on June 23, 2010 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: IE9 To Support CANVAS Tag (plus VIDEO, AUDIO, and ... Competition is a good thing. People hate the idea of a Mac vs. PC "war", for example, but it was a good thing. In reality neither company really competes in OS's any longer. Neither Windows or Mac OS are really undergoing a lot of development these days. Apple and Microsoft are both content and off doing other things. Phones, tablets, games, databases, etc. Has all the interesting stuff been done with the OS?

loewenskind on June 24, 2010 [–]

Well windows 7 was released not so long ago. That was pretty big for the windows world.

codeflo on June 24, 2010 | [–]

It was a huge success because it was essentially a usable, bug-fixed Vista. Technologically, XP to Vista was a much larger step than Vista to 7.

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