On Thu, 2011-10-20 at 10:52 +0100, Mark Stanton wrote:
I've heard it said that Microsoft is the evil empire of the corporate world.Only currently. Before them it was IBM. It seems whenever any company gets very big the obvious tactic becomes "bend/break any rules required to increase income".
And part of the reason behind this thread is the incompetence of IBM when they released the original PC. Apparently it did occur to them until near release that any computer needs an OS. They did not have time to develop their own so what was used was primitive OS found by MS. Many of the problems in Windows are actually direct descendents of design choices in DOS. Backward compatibility meant that bad original design choices have lingering effects even now. Some remember the days of IBM and the seven little dwarves.
Mark Stanton One small step for mankind...
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