How Microsoft invented, or invisibly runs, almost everything

Microsoft is being credited with inventing almost everything, including the wheel – the mouse wheel. TechRadar article credits Microsoft with being the first to invent its version of the iPad, dubbed the Tablet PC, which shipped in 2002. Facebook’s walled garden was credited to Microsoft’s 1995 version of MSN. Microsoft was first to market smart watches (Smart Personal Object Technology, or SPOT) In 2000, the Redmond giant put out the first eReader; also in 2000, Microsoft invented the first smartphone, Microsoft’s Pocket PC platform.”]

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