Comment by ghssds
3 days ago
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.