> If Gates and Ballmer had their way, I don't want to even imagine what the internet would look like today. Could it be worse than the bloated javascript ad-ri

> If Gates and Ballmer had their way, I don't want to even imagine what the internet would look like today. Could it be worse than the bloated javascript ad-ridden social media hellscape we have today? All Microsoft "did" to the internet was abandon development on their dominant browser as a way to keep developers on the Windows platform. And lo-and-behold, _market forces_ foiled their plans on that one, not the government. If anything did the internet in, it was the iPhone and the mass adoption of smartphones afterwards, which brought in untold numbers of tech-illiterate consumers to be easily exploited by our current crop of Evil Tech Companies.