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Originally Posted by RocHard
I think your all wrong.
Everyone is quick to bash M$, but our industry exists because of their products and software. Without M$ where would we be? And without M$, what would have we have used? Would it have been better or worse?
Then factor in that Windows is the defacto standard. Imagine the billions in re-training if Microsoft was suddenly replaced.
Not sure about everyone else but I've been running Windows XP on this box for the past two years without any problems.
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Actually, our "industry" exists because of IBM, Intel, Xerox (they created graphics interfaces and the mouse) and to some extent Apple. Microsoft exists because it's founder "scammed" another company out of it's DOS software and sold it to IBM as their own. That relationship is what built MS. Microsoft has never done anything except buy technology/programs (sometimes thru "shady" business practices) from others and then market it far better than anyone else. They don't "innovate", they take what others have and use their marketing muscle (and licensing "threats") to outsell everyone. Also remember that "Windows" was what came out of the "broken" contract between MS and IBM to develop OS2. OS2 was far superior to Windows. Keep an eye on Apple. They're slowly doing and end run around MS.