Chad Smith wrote:
Windows' easy-to-use interface,
A second-generation copy.
Office's powerful business apps,
Fundamentally designed in the 80's. Word for DOS and Multiplan were
genuinely innovative (though, as I understand it, Word was developed
outside of Microsoft, and, for all I know, Multiplan may have been, too).
> and other
advancements brought to you by the Evil Empire *CREATED* the industry.
Ridiculous. No, dammit, it's more than ridiculous, it's an outright lie.
There was a time when Windows wasn't the monopoly, when MS Office didn't
command the huge marketshare it does today, and when IE meant "for
example". But because of Microsoft doing something right - giving people
what they want, a simple-to-use interface, powerful business applications,
and games to boot - there is a computer in almost every home in America and
Europe.
Rubbish. Microsoft is on top because Bill Gates was a trust fund baby,
and because he and his gang use the methods of organized crime. "Nice
website you got here. It would be a shame if anything happened to it."
Now, are you going to tell me that Apple did that? Or Linux? Or
Unix? Or Acorn? Or maybe it was IBM, right? Because everyone uses OS/2
Warp 2006, right?
It took Microsoft about a decade to get Windows roughly to the point
where OS/2 was in 1992. And Microsoft's betrayal of OS/2 customers, and
the lies they told from the beginning of the whole affair to the bitter
end (their January 1991 press release denying that they were going to
stab IBM in the back, only a month before they did it, should have been
investigated by the SEC) was a base and contemptible act of treachery
that has forever damned Microsoft in the eyes of anyone who knows the
meaning of the word "honesty".
No, we are stuck with a buggy-by-design toy operating system because PC
manufacturers, including, to their shame, IBM's own PC division, did not
have the balls to resist Microsoft's criminal extortion, and because the
Justice Department does not have the balls to prosecute Microsoft for
its open defiance of the antitrust laws.
--
John W. Kennedy
"But now is a new thing which is very old--
that the rich make themselves richer and not poorer,
which is the true Gospel, for the poor's sake."
-- Charles Williams. "Judgement at Chelmsford"
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