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On Thu, 2011-10-20 at 10:52 +0100, Mark Stanton wrote: 

I've heard it said that Microsoft is the evil 
empire of the corporate world.

Only currently.  Before them it was IBM.
It seems whenever any company gets very big the obvious tactic becomes 
"bend/break any rules required to increase income".


And part of the reason behind this thread is the incompetence of IBM
when they released the original PC. Apparently it did occur to them
until near release that any computer needs an OS. They did not have time
to develop their own so what was used was primitive OS found by MS. Many
of the problems in Windows are actually direct descendents of design
choices in DOS. Backward compatibility meant that bad original design
choices have lingering effects even now.

Some remember the days of IBM and the seven little dwarves. 

Mark Stanton
One small step for mankind...






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