Re:Bill Gates in Byte Magazine: The Future of Software Desig...
by ncmncm on Saturday December 28, 2019 @07:13AM
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Microsoft "succeeded" by cranking monopoly power absolutely as hard as it would go.
They haven't really changed, although they have learned to be less obvious about it.
They set the software world back by 20 years. Before Microsoft, nobody thought computers should just randomly fail all the time. They got people to think it was perfectly normal, and not a reason to send the damn thing back for a refund.
They haven't really changed, although they have learned to be less obvious about it.
They set the software world back by 20 years. Before Microsoft, nobody thought computers should just randomly fail all the time. They got people to think it was perfectly normal, and not a reason to send the damn thing back for a refund.