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Has microsoft done anything good for the computer industry?
dmcfarland:
We all know microsoft is a pile of crap. I have finnally made the move to Liunux and my pc is ms free. This website is dedicated to trashing microsoft rightly so.
I am curious to know if Microsoft has contributed anything good and worthwhile in the computer industry. I am in no way advocating for Microsoft, but It would be a good thing to take a balanced look at micosoft and how its spurned other alternatives if anything.
H_TeXMeX_H:
Something M$ has done that is truly good ... hmmmm, I'll have to ponder a while on that one, I mean what are the chances a company that is motivated by greed and lust for power doing something "good" ... declaring DRM as anti-consumer was not bad, but their motives are flawed ... that's what makes them bad. In the Kantian sense of good, absolutely nothing M$ does can be good as long as it is motivated by greed and lust for power.
piratePenguin:
They basically invented the modern office suite AFIAK.*
That's all I can think off.
*Hopes to be told he's wrong about this one.
WMD:
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Yes.
Before Microsoft, software was a "vertical" industry - you got all your software from the same place you got your hardware. Period. Either that, or you developed it yourself. There weren't any really "software companies."
But MS changed that with their first release, Altair BASIC. Its popularity encouraged programmers to start software companies, and sell directly. There was real competition.
Of course, MS has since been trying to make themselves that single source of software of yesteryear, but that's not the point.
There's also Minesweeper. :D
Aloone_Jonez:
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I'm not too sure about this one - having to buy a whole Office suite when all you require is a spreadsheet isn't a good thing.
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