> I doubt things would be much different if Microsoft wasn't around. The man-hours wasted working around the bugs with Fat32 and NetBIOS and the slew of broken

> I doubt things would be much different if Microsoft wasn't around. The man-hours wasted working around the bugs with Fat32 and NetBIOS and the slew of broken MS implementations can never be recovered. MS Office is STILL an endearing testament to what has been spent cradling flawed MS technological choices. The idea that the world would be the same without MS is nonsensical. The question is if we would have developed things like VMs a decade before (we would have through Sun filling those gaps with their existing tech). Maybe Sun would have burned down anyway, but that's besides the point. > Yet all transactions that contributed to his gains were voluntary. They were often coerced. They were tried and convicted in multiple arenas, for abuse of the de-facto monopoly. Where does this revisionist thinking get incubated?