In my experience over the last 15 years. I would go out and find a piece of software that would improve how my computer and I work together. It did what I wanted and how I wanted. Within 6 months to a year M$ would steal the idea, or buy them out, or take a lost with their own crappy version, to drive out he competition. I would use the last version until it no longer worked with the OS or MS finally made a better version. The closing of doc standards so you have to have MSword to guarantee you can read the a document. Why do they have to make it so the word processor that did what I needed will not work with their docs standard? Why punish the user so it can hold 1% of market share. I Hate M$ because it copies other peoples ideas and use their idea to run the real innovator out of business. To MS Other software Dev are a source of new ideas and are seen as the enemy, The OS is the Dev connection to the user but MS can decided at anytime to go after your user base because The Dev may be taking the technology to fast into a direction that MS has not planned to develop for another 2 to 10 years. MS is not a software company they are a marketing company that sells software. i want to see MS make a tight secure OS/office suite that was independent of latent software. This way people will have a choice of running old software OS or use the a package that is better faster and runs on newer hardware. They have to create a file standard that both can read and open it up so people can develop of the OS without having to write their own standard to get all the functionality that is required
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In my experience over the last 15 years. I would go out and find a piece of software that would improve how my computer and I work together. It did what I wanted and how I wanted. Within 6 months to a year M$ would steal the idea, or buy them out, or take a lost with their own crappy version, to drive out he competition. I would use the last version until it no longer worked with the OS or MS finally made a better version. The closing of doc standards so you have to have MSword to guarantee you can read the a document. Why do they have to make it so the word processor that did what I needed will not work with their docs standard? Why punish the user so it can hold 1% of market share. I Hate M$ because it copies other peoples ideas and use their idea to run the real innovator out of business. To MS Other software Dev are a source of new ideas and are seen as the enemy, The OS is the Dev connection to the user but MS can decided at anytime to go after your user base because The Dev may be taking the technology to fast into a direction that MS has not planned to develop for another 2 to 10 years. MS is not a software company they are a marketing company that sells software. i want to see MS make a tight secure OS/office suite that was independent of latent software. This way people will have a choice of running old software OS or use the a package that is better faster and runs on newer hardware. They have to create a file standard that both can read and open it up so people can develop of the OS without having to write their own standard to get all the functionality that is required