People often blame the mess in the computer industry on M$, but the truth is that it goes far deeper than that.
It all started back in the fifties when computers started to become more and more common: allmost every western government had one (Except for Sweden. Sweden's first computer was for doing metreological calculations, but that is another story! :-D).
The man who started it all was no other than Adolph Hitler. Yes, it's true! He fled to the states under the name "Bertram Binkel" when the war was over, and got himself a job as a janitor at the defence ministry, where one of the computers was located.
Eager for revenge, he learnt some simple programming and started to write the first routines for the mind control system that consists of electronic radiation emitted by electronic devices. He was planning to make the US poplutaion into nazi pirates who would roam the seas killing everything,
Hitler was not very careful in his work however, so he was caught pretty quick. Nobody really know what happened to him, but the technology that he developed was developed further by the government.
The responsibility of spreading the mind control devices hass been passed between different large corporations since then. Currently, it is in the hands of Bill Gates. His OS, Windows, has been spread all over the world, ensuring that no computer using persons will ever harm the free economy. Mind you that the mind-control waves cannot be stopped by copper computers, but they can certainly be created!
Microsoft, being patriotic and all, has tried to erase all competition in order to fulfill their duties. Apple is still around, but that is only because they are supported by the russians (who have their own plot, but that's another story). Amiga has been infiltrated but, in a last act of free will, Bill McEwen managed to sell of the rights to AmigaOS to a third part before the evil men got to it.
This doesn't matter, of course, as the staff at Hyperion use Windows on their secondary machines, thus are under the influence of GW.
WE'RE DOOMED!
:-D