Re: Re: Never do a system ful
  By: Daryl Stout to Mark Hofmann on Sat Jul 17 2021 12:01 pm

 > Mark,
 > 
 >  DS> I still remember the big stink with DoubleSpace and DriveSpace, when th
 >  DS> had actually stolen info from "Stacker".
 > 
 >  MH> Me too, just posted the same thing a minute ago before I read your
 >  MH> message. Microsoft using their size and power to crush the small
 >  MH> company from the inside.
 > 
 >   They want to be the Wal-Mart of OS's. Once they get rid of everyone else,
 > you pay their price, or do without.
 > 
 >   Or, they can't think up new original stuff, so they steal what's already
 > out there, and market is as their own.
 > 
 > Daryl
 > 
 > ... Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool Running: Deleting The Windows OS
 > === MultiMail/Win v0.52

I think it is more of the latter than the former nowadays.

Microsoft is making big investments in stuff that is not IT related, like
railway firms and the like. I think this means they don't have ideas to fund
with their own money so it is more profitable for them to fund somebody else's
ideas instead.

In the early days I would have said it was a case of Microsofty trying to
destroy competition, because they actually were that way. Not that they aren't
a bit like that today - you are not convincing me that Secure Boot was not an
experiment to see if they could lock others out of Wintel hardware - but it is
less of an issue now.

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