Flashback: 1996 interview with Apple Employee Steve Capps

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Category: Opinion/Interviews
Link: Flashback: 1996 interview with Apple Employee Steve Capps (http://news.com.com/2009-1082_3-233203.html)

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[phc]

How unfortunate for Steve, he certainly seemed ahead of his time. I guess a lot of innovative things he did turned out to be big flops, with the exception of the Finder of course.

It seemed like the Windows Active Desktop had a lot of potential but it was just the wrong time to implement something like that. The computer I had in '96 was a 75 MHz Pentium and it was barely able to run Windows 95 sufficiently, let alone Active Desktop (or was Active Desktop released in Windows 98? I don't remember). Regardless Active Desktop just slowed my computer down and I guess I got into the habit of switching it off with every iteration of Windows. Then I came to my sense and bought a Mac :-) A good idea, just never panned out like the Newton and the Lisa.