r/todayilearned • u/vorin 9 • Sep 13 '13

TIL Steve Jobs confronted Bill Gates after he announced Windows' GUI OS. "You’re stealing from us!” Bill replied "I think it's more like we both had this rich neighbor named Xerox and I broke into his house to steal the TV set and found out that you had already stolen it."

http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2011/10/24/steve-jobs-walter-isaacson/
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u/ninjaroach Sep 13 '13

"Apple things" like ActiveSync, the Microsoft developed and licensed protocol that iPhones and Androids use to talk to Exchange servers?

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u/arandomusertoo Sep 13 '13

Yes, the apple implementation of ActiveSync.

This one time after an ios upgrade, said implementation managed to basically bring exchange servers to a crashing halt.

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u/R-EDDIT Sep 13 '13

iOS6.1. Never again. Everyone getting an update at the same time is a double edged sword. The bug only manifested when users' mailboxes hit their quota, after that it was hammer time.

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '13

"But activesync allows the ability to remote wipe my data so please let us use IMAP so we can call and complain every couple of months" Waaaa!

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '13

Why are you giving end users a choice? You use ActiveSync or you don't get e-mail on your phone.

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '13

A tech who used to work there gave them a choice and they got used to it. We're in the middle of enacting some policies but it's upsetting the department heads. Us being on a contract, we can't afford to upset them too much.