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I think your sarcasm detector needs maintenance.
Sarcastic people need to stop writing trollish comments.
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@1vuio0pswjnm7: You forgot to post the sacarism smiley. “Bill Gates .. was such a thoughtful developer, e.g., autmatically overwriting MBRs installed by other OS with a Microsoft MBR, and making it impossible to boot Windows from partitions other than the first one, in case you accidentally tried to boot another OS from partition one." I recently bought a brand-new desktop PC after the other one gave up the ghost aft…
You bough a brand new computer without an SSD?
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https://web.archive.org/web/20190908064425/http://www.proudl... It was an old pre-Windows joke saying, maybe appealing because it didn't seem totally outside the realm of possibility, given other things people saw and heard from MS. Later variations on the theme came with early Windows, when MS's own application programs were said to get special development support and also undocumented APIs they could use. Supposedl…
I mean.. I don't think typical large corporations are mellow. Microsoft has over $100 billion in cash reserves and their OS near monopoly in many computing areas. It's going to take quite a lot of internal heroism to prevent them from using their position as an advantage. Maybe. But probably nothing will stop it. Look at gaming. Recently got a Windows laptop. When I initially set it up it asked if I wanted Xbox Game…
Are we? Curious what progress you see.
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Don't feed the troll.
It's not trolling, it's sarcasm, although with the crippling inability of far too many HN posters to recognize sarcasm, even when its glaringly obvious, I understand why someone might think it's trolling.
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If a man steals a pizza from his neighbor, and then gives 3/4 of it as a tax-deductible "gift" to his favorite causes, shall we call him a hero?
The problem with that metaphor is it implies 100% of microsoft's profits only exist because of theft. Their software added legitimate value to people's lives. It still does - Outlook & the office suite are still world class at what they do. DirectX pushed the stagnant OpenGL to innovate. Visual studio is fantastic (miles better than current XCode). C# is a worthy successor to Java. VS Code is excellent too. And so is…
Yep, corporate GMail had made me detest email, but corporate Outlook made me stop using it.
Also, Outlook for Mac was the only app that I had to actually quit before sleeping a macbook or the battery would die in my bag. Nothing else could compare.
On the server side, nothing mutilates mail quite like Exchange, although recent versions aren't as good as that as the old ones were.
Word and Excel are kind of nice, but I don't use them enough to pay for them, so OpenOffice it is.
Something appears to be missing between the history and the conclusion. However the competition was finished off, it wasn't by code that was never used.
> In the final version of Windows 3.1, the code was disabled, but you could easily enable it by changing 1 byte Why would a user do that, and why should I be mad if they did?
I think this is mainly about the fact that the code was still in there. Disabled, sure, but it kinda indicates that it got quite close to going into the version that shipped.
"How Bill Gates finished off the competition" by implementing functionality that didn't make it in to the commercial release? Something appears to be missing between the history and the conclusion. However the competition was finished off, it wasn't by code that was never used.
It was used in the beta:
When a user ran Windows 3.1 Beta on his computer using DR-DOS he was horrified when the system informed him of a "non-fatal error".
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I mean.. I don't think typical large corporations are mellow. Microsoft has over $100 billion in cash reserves and their OS near monopoly in many computing areas. It's going to take quite a lot of internal heroism to prevent them from using their position as an advantage. Maybe. But probably nothing will stop it. Look at gaming. Recently got a Windows laptop. When I initially set it up it asked if I wanted Xbox Game…
> But thankfully we are making progress on decentralized platforms. Are we? Curious what progress you see.
Matrix is federating chat, with Mozilla, Gitter and numerous others natively using the Matrix protocol. Meanwhile, there are dozens of mature bridges to pull in IRC, Slack, Discord, etc so you no longer have to install their software: https://matrix.org/bridges/
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I think this is mainly about the fact that the code was still in there. Disabled, sure, but it kinda indicates that it got quite close to going into the version that shipped.
But the headline is "How Bill Gates finished off the competition". How is it possible to finish off the competition by deploying code that is never even executed once?