A History of Microsoft's AntiCompetitive Behavior

[vlad321]

alephnull said:

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.

 

 

I thing you misunderstand. The internet was possible only because so many people had computers due to the extremely cheap price they were being sold at. What is a PC without an OS? Whichever way you cut it, Windows was one of the easiest OSes out there to use with its meataphorical cabinet UI. What the monopoly did, whether you liek it or not, is also basically standardize all the software because there wass nothing to dedvelop for. If there were many different viable OSes presented, each with their own twists, how do you think software would have eveolved? Even now the Macs had to fall under an Intel structure to be viable at all, what if there was 2-4 different OSes each with their own weird build? It would have been a mess and only slowed progress.

So what they did is bassically give the OS to everyone, license it to any hardware maker, and then they effectivly stndardized the software. And you don't think those are the sole reasons why computers are the way they are? Cheap, and always compatible? If it wasnt for Microsoft we would have been stuck paying thousands for Apples which locked their OS on their own hardware effectively raisng the price a ridiculous amount. And surprisingly, it was Bill Gates' plan not Microsoft's so we do owe the state of the world to him. You said it yourself, in 1995 the internet was a mess, 14 years later here we are. If people didn't have their computers or if software was all full of OS incompatabilities do you hoenstly hink we'd be where we are in such a short period of time?