Bill Gates first job was fixing bugs at a computer company. He saw an oppourtinity, followed a business plan and got it.
They didn't start as a monopoly, they were too small to use "dirty tatics" at the beginning, so if they wrote bad software how could they succeed?
It's a well run company that's why it succeeds. True, now I would class it now as a monopoly, because put simply if you want to do something chances are you'll have to use MS software to do it.
Excel, Word files are the files to use if you're using a word processor or spreadsheet. Nothing else gets a look in.
If the Amiga was a company that was run as well as Microsoft history would've been alot different. But in the world of business, technical ability means squat, there's always examples of it, VHS vs Beta, etc.
I think an OS with the principles of QNX design, the Amiga's spirit, the community support of Linux, and the usability of Windows along with MS's business sense would be pretty cool.
Thankfully with Linux, SGI decided to find out how to make GNOME more usable to users.
GNOME StudyBut anyway back to my point. MS started small, with no monopoly, and nowhere near the power, IBM was the monopoly back then. You just say that MS write bad software because you're completely anti-MS.
You must at least admit that given the complexity of MS software that's it's impossible for humans to design it without errors creeping in?
The AmigaOS is nowhere near as complex, and that has errors too. All software has errors to some extent.
Please excuse my rambling now anyway, Ive got alot of different opinions about the current situation with computers and tend to get sidetracked. :-)
