Comment by syntaxing
3 days ago
Growing up, Microsoft dominance felt so strong. 3 decades later, there’s a really high chance my kids will never own or use a windows machine (unless their jobs gives them one).
3 days ago
Growing up, Microsoft dominance felt so strong. 3 decades later, there’s a really high chance my kids will never own or use a windows machine (unless their jobs gives them one).
Do you remember this: http://toastytech.com/evil/index.html ?
Microsoft hate was something else in the '90s and 2000s. Yet people stayed with it as if they had no choice while OS/2, AmigaOS, NextStep, BeOS and all those UNIXes died.
A lot of people didn't and still don't. Sometimes your job/business requires certain software that is only available on windows. I'm not giving up my job for an OS. for the past 15 years or so I could do everything on Mac and Linux, but that might not always be the case. I certainly wouldn't pass up a lucrative consulting position because it was windows only.
an employer requires their workers to use Windows; the target audience for Windows is management, their HR and attorneys, and then greater security services. MSFT sells investigative services.
Back then people really didn't have much of a choice.
Nowadays most things happen in browsers anyways, WINE/Proton have come a long way, and alternatives to almost anything windows-only have reached a critical quality threshold.
>unless their jobs gives them one
Microsoft knows the vast majority of professionals are forced to use their products and services or else they can't put food on the table. That's why Microsoft can operate with near impunity.