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Originally Posted by AIBob
I personally like Microsoft, but it still has some problems... Although people do not bother to say it, there are many other systems that are much worse, such as linux and Mac....
But I believe that the reason that they do this slamming of Microsoft is because there are tiny little things that they do not like....
Just because it is on top, and it is not perfect, it will be slammed until its second best or maybe third.
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Windows is definitely not better than Mac OS X or Linux. While I can site many reasons, I prefer not to.
But basically my beef with Microsoft is there monopolistic power. They try to control basically every sector of technology. Whether it is the PC, server, music, video, DVDs, networking, DirectX, etc, etc. They always come out with a product that is proprietary, and it must only use a Microsoft solutions (there are a few exceptions of course). Microsoft is basically the reason why there are few open standards in the world that technology can interrupt. There strategy is basically like Wal-Mart strategy. They lower the prices of the products, until the competition dries up, and then they jack up the prices to whatever they choose, because there is no viable alternative. They don’t even try to embrace open-source solutions, and sometimes they try to stop in dead in their tracks.
If you think that Microsoft has helped the world by providing all of these products, than you are somewhat misguided. Microsoft strategy is often taking someone else’s idea, making there own version, and throwing a bunch of money at it until it becomes the majority.
On the other hand, I do like some of Microsoft’s products, especially Office. While it is not perfect, I do prefer it against other office suites.