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.

Proof of this?

If MS hadn't had a monopoly on the OS market, do you really think that more competition would have held back the quality of computer mass-products?

As for the internet, do you realize that MS was against it, and that their stance was that the future was a loosely connected set of proprietary infrastructures instead? In 1993 I was happily surfing the web from the Unix systems in my University. Meanwhile Windows lacked a proper net stack for their home products (16 bit trumpet winsock), simply borrowed the BSD one for NT and kept trying to push its own mail/file/message infrastructure at the enterprise level. That is, until they were forced to recognize the error of their ways and bought what would become Internet Explorer.

Edit: gee, alephnull almost wrote the same word by word :) anyway, it's nice to see someone else remembering the actual facts, not the revised history.