On Apr 5, 2012 11:02 AM, "Greg Sevart" <[email protected]> wrote: <snip> > So your defense is "you can't criticize Apple because Microsoft was bad too" > - awesome. While Microsoft may have had a monopoly and may have used it to > prevent choice in the marketplace, I do very much believe that the > interoperability that resulted did much to further computing at the point in > time in which it occurred. In any case, the "they did it too" defense is > ridiculous.
True, MS gave us a unified FRAMEWORK at a time when apps suffered from needing to reinvent the wheel then also convince hardware vendors to create & support drivers. Had they not playednl dirty with OS/2 and itb, had succeeded we'd of been back to IBM controlled hell. You could say their early bullying ensured all the competing hardware companies were on a level playing field, and who besides IBM really wanted to make an Intel OS at that point? Not apple who, like the superior but ill fated Amiga, went motorola splintering the market. No love lost here, I really dislike Microsoft and many other PC industry giants for how they play ball BUT at least they aren't forcing me to use windows nor dictating who I can buy hardware from (yet).
