Bill was certainly a ruthless businessman whose tactics caused all kinds of frustration for corporate IT departments and even stymied the development of the web

Bill was certainly a ruthless businessman whose tactics caused all kinds of frustration for corporate IT departments and even stymied the development of the web for a few years. But in hindsight that all seems a lot less evil to me than what today's giants are doing: vacuuming up our personal lives and delivering them to the NSA, cultivating addiction and depression in children to increase ad views, etc. 1990s/2000s Microsoft seems saintly to me by comparison.