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Originally Posted by Socks
Say what?
The largest and most successful software company of all time bar none "cannot create successful software" ?
You're trying so hard to be right that all logic, facts and figures have been tossed aside!
You're probably reading this in... windows. I'm writing it in windows.
I haven't used IE in a long time, admittedly, it's always been garbage.
However when I look back on my Atari, Amiga, Tandy and IBM AT/XT days, Microsoft rode in like a white knight and wowed us. Seeing Windows 2.0 for the first time? Amazing. MS Word vs Wordperfect 5.1? Amazing. Windows 3.1? Very advanced for the time. Plus I've always loved their mice and keyboards.
And because of Microsoft's success (and lax stance on piracy of their software) thousands of other companies were able to hop on the gold train and make some cool stuff too. We have a lot to be thankful for.
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LOL Wordperfect reminds me of the Amiga days. You gotta admit, workbench kicked ass.
But Microsoft, they only got where they are now because of how they took a shit over the open source community. They bought the source code for DOS off some hobbyist programmer just to impress IBM at the time. Microsoft did not create their own success. IBM did. Microsoft just used a different business strategy at the time. It wasn't due to the quality of their software.