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It was probably a good business decision. Microsoft is famous for commercial success despite the hacker crowd typically having unfavorable opinions about their
by Zak 2y ago
It was probably a good business decision. Microsoft is famous for commercial success despite the hacker crowd typically having unfavorable opinions about their products.
The best example that comes to mind for me is Windows 95 having a special case in its memory management to work around a bug in SimCity. From a technical perspective, that's nuts, but from a business perspective I imagine not doing that would have hurt both immediate sales and consumer trust in the brand.
- kbolino 2y agoI guess the line between "business" and "technical" reasons here is a little blurry. Keeping SimCity or any other widely used program working through "hacks" doesn't seem nearly as bonkers in the days before widespread high-speed Internet access. Even if Maxis did patch their game, most people would have no way to update their copy.