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You must not remember much about Microsoft in the 80/90s
by Blaiz0r 7y ago
You must not remember much about Microsoft in the 80/90s
- gambiting 7y ago80s were literally 40 years ago at this point. How many of the original employees are even at Microsoft at this point? At which point complaining about Microsoft's actions decades ago will be the same as complaining about Bayer making chemicals for the Nazis - as in, relevant historically, but not very relevant at the present?
- ilikehurdles 7y agoI think this entire thread is a waste of space and deserves its negative votes, but Microsoft of today is no better than google. They both sell spyware disguised as OSes and consumer devices.
- gambiting 7y agoOf course, and they can get all the hate they can for this. But for the stuff they did 40 years ago? Somehow I feel like that's water under the bridge at this point.
- catalogia 7y ago> Somehow I feel like that's water under the bridge at this point. As Heraclitus said, no man ever steps in the same river twice. Yet the river is just as eager to sweep you away as it ever was. Unless you intend to be willfully naive, past encounters with the river should inform your future expectations of the river. Who in the 1990s could have predicted that in the 2020s Microsoft would be a distributor of spyware? Every damn Microsoft critic saw that coming.
- ilikehurdles 7y agoThat's totally fair.
- holtalanm 7y agosome people just love to hate on microsoft no matter what they do, really.
- minikites 7y agoWhy is something that happened 30+ years ago relevant?