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I'd guess it's because a lot of techies remember how 10 years ago MS exploited their monopoly to force their products onto the entire world? fortunately those
by blibble 13y ago
I'd guess it's because a lot of techies remember how 10 years ago MS exploited their monopoly to force their products onto the entire world?
fortunately those days are over and they've become mostly irrelevant, but everyone knows that given half a chance they'd do it again...
- vowelless 13y agoI was a kid back then so I don't know the details of the story. Can you give me a primer?
- jongalloway2 13y agos/10/20 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft#History http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft#Hist...
- blibble 13y agodon't forget this one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union_Microsoft_competition_case http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union_Microsoft_compet...
- tlarkworthy 13y agoalso don't forget the gazillions of viruses in that era. Business networks paralysed by out of control worms on the internet. Good times.
- us0r 13y agodon't forget to link to Google, Apple and EVERY other Fortune 500 company doing the same shit, different pile.
- pjmlp 13y agoThey won't because this is HN and only Microsoft is bad.
- zanny 13y ago> fortunately those days are over and they've become mostly irrelevant, but everyone knows that given half a chance they'd do it again... Everyone I know for the most part types their documents in Microsoft Word on Windows computers. Sure, they got smartphones and tablets for the media consumption and facebook, but they don't even know an alternative "big boy" OS exists. They think Windows == computers. Which I think means MS is anything but irrelevant (no matter how hard I try to stuff opensuse down everyones throat).
- icefox 13y agoMaybe ten years ago I would have said that, but these days it seems they are typing their "documents" into an email composer or a website form (be it a frontend for blogger, wiki, wordpress, etc).
- dsuth 13y agoYou mustn't work in an office environment then. The only significant break from MS products I've seen has been Lotus Notes... which was significantly worse than Exchange. MS Office is the defacto file format for office work, and MS Office on non-Windows platforms (ie. Mac) is so bad as to appear intentionally crippled.
- icefox 13y agoI work for an decent sized international company that not only has a presence on the web it also has factories and all of the complexities that go with that. I would indeed count where I work as an "office environment", I even have the cube, office badge and mailbox to prove it :)