A History of Microsoft's AntiCompetitive Behavior

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vlad321 said:

Jo21 said:

vlad321 said:

Alright. Do you realize what Microsoft has actually done though? Bill Gates has single-handedly brought a cimputer into everyone's home. Unlike Apple he let anyone who could build a PC use windows, drastically lowering the price of computers.

We owe the state of the world quite literally to Microsoft and Microsoft alone. They brought acomputer nto every house.

 

then again he have barred any other third party.

 there is no support for linux even its now a nicer OS.

 

Again, because of him everyone has access to a computer and internet. We're so far ahead solely because of Microsoft.

MS was blindsided by the internet. In Gate's "The Road Ahead" (1995) with his predictions of the future there was no mention of the internet. This is why the internet is so unixified. If you had been around then trying to surf the web, mud, or play nettreck in windows 3.1 w/ trumpet winsock you would know. I know NT 4 straight up stole the BSD TCP stack.