Comment by thinkpad20
11 years ago
I would also add that Google, Apple, Facebook and others are hardly without their track records of "profound fuckery"... and yet it's only Microsoft for which the knee-jerk reaction to any bit of news seems to be "it sucks."
Oh come on, did you miss the huge backlash when fb took over occulus rift? And Google get a lot of shit for closing much used and loved services.
But Microsoft wanted to remove the open web, in favour of all their proprietary services, such as Active-X. Places like South Korea foolishly followed the MS paradigm, and they are suffering for it now. Microsoft wanted to control everything, and kill Linux and over open source projects by spreading FUD.
> by spreading FUD
Refers to this, if anyone was not aware: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween_Documents
So not dissimilar to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Native_Client ?
Sharply dissimilar.