Microsoft Hatred FAQ berkeleyunix 5140

What you call "clever marketing" the DOJ calls "monopolistic practices". The courts agreed with the DOJ. Having had several large PC manufacturers refuse to sell me a system without some form of Windows because MS made it impossible for them to compete if they didn't agree to do so, I agree with the courts and the DOJ.

MS didn't start chanting the "Ease of Use" Mantra into it after Apple did - which happened long after MS had a sufficient stranglehold on the industry to force anti-compebreastive contracts down the throats of their "partners". Ease of use is something that Apple is much better at than MS, which is why Apple is dominating the market, right?

I disagree. Before Gates decided to sell BASIC, software was very cheap. It started getting cheap again in the late 80s. Now that cheap software is threatening MS, they're doing their best to shut down all the sources of quality cheap software, with there usual disregard for truth, legality, ethics or the good of either the customer or their business partners.

Oh, horsepoo. You clearly weren't paying attention to what the rest of the microcomputer industry was doing while Gates was selling IBM non-existent software. While IBM was introducing 16-bit processors and DOS was doing a flat file system, Tandy was selliig systems - for a fraction of the price of any MS-DOS based system - that were mulbreastasking, multiuser, had an optional windowing system that came with a complete (for the time) office suite. Of course, that was while Tandy still thought they could sell computers by selling better computers than you could get running MS software. But it was already to late for that. MS single-handedly set the industry back 20 years.

I see. You're a troll.

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