Why did Microsoft get so much hate in the 90s?
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
>>107731689He was an asshole and stories about his bad behavior spread around it's as simple as that.
>Killed Amiga>Killed Acorn>Killed OS/2>Killed Netscape>Killed BeOS
>>107731689Shitty practices.
>>107731689Microsoft's aggressive evangelization of slopware niggotry. Same reason they get hate today.
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".
>>107731754I 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.
they were pure evil and released shit products that forced people to buy new computerspeople didn't defend that shit back then they do now
>>107733022>Killed AmigaAmiga was killed by 13h.
>>107733863Didn't Doom really kill it?
>>107733911What mode does Doom actually run on? That's right.
Daily occurence
Steve Jobs needed a distraction for his failing computer business and picked Gates (ironically gates saved it from bankruptcy earlier)It's hard to underestimate how much the tech media and his fanboys clung to Jobs words, they thought he was tech Jesus
Because MS's NT kernel was such garbage that Linux - which LARPed as a monokernel despite copying its API from a microkernel - managed to beat them across the board. And Linux wasn't even the worst UNIX derivative out there.MS lost the server sector, and because they couldn't reclaim it with superior performance they stated flinging shit.
