1 edit | reply to Meganolia
Re: IE / Netscape Here's a few reasons Microsoft became dominant: IE was a hell of a lot better than Netscape during the browser wars. Their Office suites (the DOS ones) were quite ahead of most consumer-level and most business-level ones of the time. 640 K is plenty... for DOS. That is what everyone forgets. Gates was referring to DOS since that was the upper limit for it anyways.
Of course, not everything is shiny in MS land. Anyone who wonders why people dislike them simply has too look at the virus and worm damages in the past few years. As people mentioned, Gates never expected the Internet, and neither did Windows. It was mostly patch-work. And one thing MS should never be forgiven for is not continuing to improve IE with more modern features like Tabbed-browsing, pop-up blocking, no Active-X (can you say Security Flaw?).
PS: All the crushing of small companies, stealing of other intellectual properties, and giving their other software an added edge against other companies by bundling things free with their OS did not help with their PR. And people who say that Microsoft should be commended for their business, should they still be congratulated when they try to destroy someone elses product (Java anyone?) |
