Comment by abudabi123
3 years ago
The Microsoft empire is bigger than several nation states.
IBM research used to examine UX. The IBM top brass deciding to pay over $35B+ for a UNIX-like when they have an authentic UNIX of their very own which is going to a boneyard in India suggests that kind of UX research isn't front of mind and funded to decide which font is best.
Buying Red Hat was just to acquire customers . Generally if you don’t really want the product the business / tech then you acquire patents , customers and people. For patents you can sue other competitors.
What does AIX have to do with this? It wasn't exactly at the forefront of UX research even before Red Hat existed at all.