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> Microsoft was abusing its position long before Windows was 'a thing'. Care to give some concrete exemple ? This is again a very genuine query. As far as my
by nolok 9y ago
> Microsoft was abusing its position long before Windows was 'a thing'.
Care to give some concrete exemple ? This is again a very genuine query.
As far as my knowledge goes, Microsoft sometimes went fast and aggressively in the DOS and Win3.1 days, but there was no abuse of position until the win98 days and forward where they started on the browsers, the jvm, ...
- Jedd 9y ago> Care to give some concrete exemple ? This is again a very genuine query. The wikipedia article provides a concise summary of litigation, which is a subset of its abuse of power, but nonetheless enlightening: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_litigation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_litigation It starts: "In the 1990s, Microsoft adopted exclusionary licensing under which PC manufacturers were required to pay for an MS-DOS license even when the system shipped with an alternative operating system." And then gets worse. It is not a short page. When you say 'fast and aggressive', are you including FUD (ie. lying, libel, etc) and (arguably) inserting code to break competitors software?