What Would The World Be Like Without Microsoft?

CanadianMikey asks: "The debate with the business side of computing rages on about the validity of Open Source. Is it good or bad? What is the future of computing? Could it have been different, and where will the 21st century take us? Is Microsoft just the big nail that always gets hammered first and will someone step in to take their place when they are finally taken down? If Microsoft were to close up shop, who do the readers of Slashdot think would be tomorrow's Microsoft? What about the forgotten windows?"

Comments

Re:Standards

[xs650]

Microsoft's "standards" are the artifact of a partially failed attempt to completely dominate software and operating systems.

Re:Without Microsoft

[trouser]

100% troll. Or perhaps you are retarded.

Cheap hardware is what brought PCs to the masses. Bugs are inevitable in software, not fixing them or at times even acknowledging them is Microsoft's forte. The problem with security holes is that they are security holes. The problem with Microsoft's security holes is that they create so farking many of them and don't fix them.

Windows is a harmless amusing piece of junk. Microsoft's illegal monopoly is pure evil from the darkest pits of hell. They are the enemy of the free market, they oppose and destroy competition. So there.

And you are a troll.

Re:Well, I'd Like To See It

[soulhuntre]

"Just for curiousity's sake. Not out of any ill-will towards any particular company, since I'm sure that a lot of other companies are getting away with a lot more shit than the shit for which Microsoft got nailed."

Of course they do - the other companies also get away with using the legal system and the government as their attack dogs.

* Screwed up your bid at a product? Sue MS.

* CEO have a hard on cause Gates has a bigger helicopter? Sue MS.

* Bitter 'cause women don't think Mozilla makes you sexy? Cheer others on to sue MS.

* A failure in life? Sue MS.

It's currently the american way for those who screwed up to blame their problems ont hose who didn't. The MS situation is simply the regular jealously class war taken to the nerd arena.