Comment by hnlmorg

DirectX fragmented the market (it really is a pity they couldn’t work with OpenGL). But I will concede at least the API was nice from a developer perspective.

Internet Explorer did everything it could to fragment the market place with non-standard HTML tags, VBScript, ActiveX and so on and so forth.

Microsoft released their own JVM that was incompatible with Sun Java code and caused headaches for millions of people.

Win95 used shady tactics to break compatibility with Dr-DOS.

MS Chat (or whatever it was called) was the bane of public IRC servers.

Win98 locked people into IE4.

WinMe was a clusterfuck.

MS refused to allow retail stores to sell Windows if the store also sold PCs with competitors OSs. Killing any chance for BeOS and others to Compete.

Steve Ballmer referred to Linux as “communism”.

I could go on but you get the idea. Microsoft have always been a shitty company.