[–] 40KFTAGLView 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
I volunteer to push BG's syringe.
Death Penalty! Now.
[–] Broc_Lia 0 points 14 points 14 points (+14|-0) ago
Not undercut. Microsoft didn't get to where they were today by being more efficient than everyone else, they did it through cronyism and intimidation. Case in point: Every time you purchase a USB key or SD card you pay a microsoft tax because they "own" some basic concepts related to file systems. Take away the US patent office and microsoft would dissolve.
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The way they did it is by guaranteeing corporate support. If you're a giant corporation and you depend on your computer systems then there's literally no options. You pay Microsoft whatever they want. Because the only alternative is to use open source software which if it breaks for any reason, you are fully responsible. You can put as many layers of management between you and that decision as you want every time the system stops working there will be one fewer person between yourself and that mistake.
This isn't really accurate either. There's an overwhelming preference for linux in the server market, even though MS offers more support options.
If there was ever a smaller alternative company doing the same thing it wouldn't matter, the investors would always say "why didn't you go for Microsoft, obviously".
There is: Red Hat. They're pretty successful.
That's how Microsoft got ahead. If open source solutions ever scaled to suit corporations without breaking down because "blib-xyzlgbt.10076.xcc" suddenly needs "x11z7.bto" to be on the latest version then Microsoft would have a problem. But that has never happened.
Like I said, most important servers run linux, not windows. It's not even the cost: Compared to all the other overheads a windows licence isn't that much extra. Sysadmins prefer linux because it's typically more stable and more secure (or at least securable).
Where microsoft reigns supreme is the desktop market, especially government institutions. They spend good hard cash making sure that governments worldwide use their OS/office suite. That dominance is becoming irrelevant with the increasing importance of mobile and cloud apps though. Email transitioned to online interfaces a long time ago, and office software is getting there. Even high end computationally intensive software companies like autodesk are flirting with online-only software.
It's only a matter of time before it doesn't really matter what OS you run, you'll mostly have access to the same software. When that happens microsoft is doomed. Azure is their last hope.
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[–] thebearfromstartrack 4 points -1 points 3 points (+3|-4) ago
EXACTLY. Bill Gates, an evil shit, JUST like Edison was.
[–] obvious-throwaway- [S] 1 point 2 points 3 points (+3|-1) ago
I did a little research on Edison. My conclusion is that he did some fucked up things, but the reason his reputation is being drug through the mud is because the Jews are trying to kill the concept of a successful white man.
A LOT of "his" inventions were ACTUALLY the work of his employees. That should NEVER happen.
[–] Smallest_Skil 1 point 3 points 4 points (+4|-1) ago
didnt he steal the code for Dr. Dos (i think thats what it was called) changed a little bit of it and sold it to IBM where his father worked. In his stolen code there was a key combination that brought up the fontact infor screne for the real programmer. I believe be paid off the real programmer when he was getting sued. Gated is a thief and a con man that had a stroke of luck and other people to leach off....so yea like a jew.
[–] capnflummox ago
Have you ever heard of the term 'proof-read' ??
[–] Smallest_Skil 2 points -2 points 0 points (+0|-2) ago
na its, the- internut so hoo gives a shat. Ohny a dipshat carez abut that. thiz is not a professinal documnt. tRIGGERED? lOl
[–] Teese 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
MS DOS
[–] glownig 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago (edited ago)
NO!
First, May 28, 1988 was first shipment of DR-DOS in history. Proof;
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DR-DOS
MS-DOS existed long before that. August 1981 it shipped with IBMs. Seven years earlier!
Forensic claims show register call compatibility only. Microsoft bought QDOS source code, though DRDOS was eventually 10 times better. 2020 forensic analysis sites today using modern comparison tools show no object code at all from DRDOS.
DRDOS calls were copied though. the calling conventions. Actually DRDOS copied more calls from MS-DOS than the other way around!!!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DR-DOS