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He's a douche, but he was a good businessman because you'd have to be one to keep selling a shitty OS. Dont remember him being linked to any pedo or gay shit either, at least in the early years.
Yeah, I can list a lot of shitty things he has done and I don't like him, but he actually was a very good businessman and the only reason the PC grew as quickly as it did which directly led to the widespread impact of the dot com era which led to today.
His greatest innovation was licensing his property far and wide. If you wanted a Mac then Apple was the only company you could buy it from and it was expensive. Other computer companies were not focused on cheap, versatile personal machines.
Microsoft allowed all different manufacturers to build computers which would use their operating system. That is what led to the world we live in today at least as much as any other innovation over the last 40 years and it was a business innovation, not a technological one.
There weren't that many options at that time as I remember it. You had DOS (be it MS DOS or PC DOS, IBMs version) and then OS/2 came to the scene but by that time they also had MS Office which was the nail on the coffin.
Commodore was bankrupt, IBM was trying to unsuccessfully retake market share, Macs were only relevant in the US and Japan and was there anything else that was relevant?
I was a kid in the 90s but I never heard anyone working with anything that wasn't a Microsoft OS, for the end user I mean.
Apple had 76% of entire sales market the week the IBM PC started to ship.
76%!!! Apple was nearly the ENTIRE personal computer industry.
Also CP/M had multi-user multi-tasking operating system DRDOS (Concurrent CP/M-86) and Concurrent CP/M-86 for IBM PC, though cost 4 times more than MSDOS per copy, allowed async and networking. ASYNC programs even printing in background while running several other MS-DOS programs! ACTUAL parallel computing. I loved it. I never once in my life had to wait for computer to print anything.
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He has been accused of soliciting prostitutes. He has a mugshot; allegedly the cop was fired, see link below. He used to do business at a hotel notorious for prostitution.
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Imagine amassing all that power and wealth and realizing that you can't stop people from despising you or women finding you repulsive. What an existence.
And it's not like he can hide his wealth either; that means every interaction he has, he'll never be able to tell if people are treating him right because they fear him, want something from him, or actually care about him.
Two of my friends are pretty wealthy; worked their asses off to make their fortunes. They both carefully hide their wealth, especially when they meet new people, especially women. Leave the R8 at home; take the Camry instead. Put on the Keens, not the Milanos. Wear the GShock, not the Cartier.
They've got tons of stories about hypergamous treachery. So many tales of how quickly the average woman would switch gears after treating them like shit, but not until she'd somehow found out that she rebuked someone that could casually drop six figures on a vacation with no ill effect. Through them, listening to them recount their experiences, you really get a sense for the damage (((feminism))) has caused. Online simping has basically convinced every plain Jane female that they're veritable supermodels.
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[–] It_was_the_juice 0 points 3 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago
He's a douche, but he was a good businessman because you'd have to be one to keep selling a shitty OS. Dont remember him being linked to any pedo or gay shit either, at least in the early years.
[–] Thisismyvoatusername 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago (edited ago)
Yeah, I can list a lot of shitty things he has done and I don't like him, but he actually was a very good businessman and the only reason the PC grew as quickly as it did which directly led to the widespread impact of the dot com era which led to today.
His greatest innovation was licensing his property far and wide. If you wanted a Mac then Apple was the only company you could buy it from and it was expensive. Other computer companies were not focused on cheap, versatile personal machines.
Microsoft allowed all different manufacturers to build computers which would use their operating system. That is what led to the world we live in today at least as much as any other innovation over the last 40 years and it was a business innovation, not a technological one.
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Everything you said is false.
[–] NarrativeControl 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
There weren't that many options at that time as I remember it. You had DOS (be it MS DOS or PC DOS, IBMs version) and then OS/2 came to the scene but by that time they also had MS Office which was the nail on the coffin.
Commodore was bankrupt, IBM was trying to unsuccessfully retake market share, Macs were only relevant in the US and Japan and was there anything else that was relevant?
I was a kid in the 90s but I never heard anyone working with anything that wasn't a Microsoft OS, for the end user I mean.
[–] It_was_the_juice 1 point 2 points 3 points (+3|-1) ago
He was very good at hustling.
[–] glownig 1 point 0 points 1 point (+1|-1) ago
Apple had 76% of entire sales market the week the IBM PC started to ship.
76%!!! Apple was nearly the ENTIRE personal computer industry.
Also CP/M had multi-user multi-tasking operating system DRDOS (Concurrent CP/M-86) and Concurrent CP/M-86 for IBM PC, though cost 4 times more than MSDOS per copy, allowed async and networking. ASYNC programs even printing in background while running several other MS-DOS programs! ACTUAL parallel computing. I loved it. I never once in my life had to wait for computer to print anything.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concurrent_PC_DOS
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DR-DOS
[–] pepeshadilay 1 point 1 point 2 points (+2|-1) ago (edited ago)
He has been accused of soliciting prostitutes. He has a mugshot; allegedly the cop was fired, see link below. He used to do business at a hotel notorious for prostitution.
https://corruptico.com/2014/09/30/jewish-bill-gates-crypto-jew-pseudo-christian/
https://corruptico.com/2017/08/31/bill-gates-arrested-cop-fired/
[–] Splooge 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago (edited ago)
Imagine amassing all that power and wealth and realizing that you can't stop people from despising you or women finding you repulsive. What an existence.
And it's not like he can hide his wealth either; that means every interaction he has, he'll never be able to tell if people are treating him right because they fear him, want something from him, or actually care about him.
Two of my friends are pretty wealthy; worked their asses off to make their fortunes. They both carefully hide their wealth, especially when they meet new people, especially women. Leave the R8 at home; take the Camry instead. Put on the Keens, not the Milanos. Wear the GShock, not the Cartier.
They've got tons of stories about hypergamous treachery. So many tales of how quickly the average woman would switch gears after treating them like shit, but not until she'd somehow found out that she rebuked someone that could casually drop six figures on a vacation with no ill effect. Through them, listening to them recount their experiences, you really get a sense for the damage (((feminism))) has caused. Online simping has basically convinced every plain Jane female that they're veritable supermodels.