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Why did Microsoft get so much hate in the 90s?
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Because they captured and consumed every facet of an emerging technology.

Tech would be much better today if monopolies were hated today as they were 30 years ago
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>>107731689
He was an asshole and stories about his bad behavior spread around it's as simple as that.
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>Killed Amiga
>Killed Acorn
>Killed OS/2
>Killed Netscape
>Killed BeOS
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>>107731689
Shitty practices.
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>>107731689
Microsoft's aggressive evangelization of slopware niggotry. Same reason they get hate today.
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Because being anticorporate was the "cool" thing in the 90s, which is why we have crap like the Matrix, Office Space, etc. portraying as anything corporate as evil and being against the system as the way to be "free".
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>>107731754
I think monopolies are still as hated by normal people as they always have been, but the US government has never cared less about what people think.
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they were pure evil and released shit products that forced people to buy new computers

people didn't defend that shit back then they do now
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>>107733022
>Killed Amiga
Amiga was killed by 13h.
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>>107733863
Didn't Doom really kill it?
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>>107733911
What mode does Doom actually run on? That's right.
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Daily occurence



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