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Microsoft - The Demon Company
A little FAQ/Backhistory on MS:
What makes MS a demon company do you ask?
Obviously you're either computer illiterate, or just illiterate...in either case you shouldn't be reading/be able to read this site. MS propagates everything that is bad in the world - money, power, and crappy software for high prices. I'll of course concentrate on the latter of these options of company-bashing that are forever at my fingertips.
How does MS get away with putting out inferior software products?
An easy one. No one buys mac anymore, Linux doesn't have the software selection of Windows(or the strict user-friendliness), and Windows has insane amounts of money to pump behind their products; meaning that there isn't actually any real production, they just pump out the same crap, with basic upgrades, for insane prices. (win95 -> win98 -> winME; winNT -> win2k -> winXP)
How did MS become a monopoly in the first place if all of their products suck?
That takes some explaining. First Bill Gates never actually wrote the original DOS. He bought it off of a 3rd party producer(who thought it was useless) and sold it to IBM for the PC. When he broke off with IBM he decided to modify the version of DOS that he had sold to IBM just enough so that they couldn't sue him for copyright infringement. So he did that and called it MS-DOS. For some odd reason that I haven't been able to figure out it took off as a great OS... that one still gets me...
Anywho...from there it was on to the production of Windows(which could only be run from the MS-DOS environment). By now a lot of software producers had started to create software for DOS(and Windows), and since there was a lot of software behind it as well as being almost the sole OS for the PC, people bought into it. Then it was only a short step to keep on producing software that really hasn't advanced a whole hell of a lot from the original windows, but had people hooked because there wasn't really anything else to use. The only other OS that has been *noticeably* successful at attracting people away from MS is Linux - and thats really only because its open source and MS can't buy out any of the companies that sell it and add them to itself.
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