S.T.A.G.E. said:
slowmo said:
S.T.A.G.E. said:
slowmo said:
think-man said:
I don't no a single person that likes Microsoft , they like Xbox but not Microsoft itself. |
I've used a Microsoft OS since DOS, I don't get why people hate something they use daily. I've tried the competition and they were inferior for my needs. Anyway I use a number of their products and consider myself a fan. I think its just accepted that's its cool to hate on the big guy.
As for the topic, the worst of the Sony fanboys eclipse both Microsoft and Nintendo fanboys so I think they end up causing a stink that rile the other camps too often. This is just my anecdotal opinion of course and everyone will have a different viewpoint  .
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A lot of people hated Microsoft well before they came into the industry, people (who werent tech savvy) were still dependent on it. Much like AT&T they were looking to monopolize everything they touched (and are struggling to maintain that). In a previous school I did economy projects on monopolies and why companies get sued by the government for it and Microsoft and AT&T were the A-list offenders. If you like Microsoft, by all means like them. Its all about choice.
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Making a product that's better than others isn't a monopoly. They don't have a history of buying out competing OS developers. People hate because they're the most popular, pure and simple. The monopoly excuse is their competitors just whining at losing out in my experience.
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Im not getting into this here, but you're essentially calling the government a whiner. This country is losing its standing on monopolies because companies are stronger than a lot of countries in revenue. Sometimes they cant be touched. At one time there were safeguards.
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The US government once actively suppoerted Eugenics policies, not everything governments do is in the best interests of the general public or indeed is morally or ethically correct. I apologise for not taking everything a government does at face value. The government attacked Microsoft for free revenue, it was a stealth tax that was easily forced and that nobody would defend but Microsoft.
