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That's your take from the trenches. The filter layer above isn't tuned to that message. It's tuned to a message from bean counters/upper management.

It's basically drug dealing, where the drug is a dopamine hit. It's OK in this case, because the "free market" supports it. Nevermind teams of psychologists helped those users deve…

Having a monopoly and abusing it are two different things. MS was in a position to abuse it because no one could switch to OSX or Linux without huge expense; hard to run win32 apps…

Microsoft had a monopoly at a lower level in the stack. When all the software you rely on is win32, it's hard to move to Linux or OSX. People can dump Chrome tomorrow for at least …