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I will always resent Microsoft for what they did to Netscape, and the way that they blended IE with Windows just to be able to later claim it couldn’t be removed (which Bill Gates did say before Congress… even though many of us were running IE-free Windows 98 even then, thanks to 98Lite or Mozilla’s Revenge).
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They could have monetized their customers mercilessly as they are now, plying them with ads, putting unrequested software on their computers (repeatedly), using them to beta test the software they paid for, among many other things, but they never did that with the “old” Microsoft. They could have sabotaged Windows XP installations that were done on Core 2 Duo and newer systems, giving people a choice between malware exposure or a product they hate, but they didn’t.
When Vista failed, MS could have used the same tricks it’s using now to force people to accept it whether they wanted to or not.
Microsoft has used every bit of its monopoly power to force people to accept a product they would ordinarily have rejected, which is something they didn’t do when they were the “old” Microsoft.
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They will nearly certainly be in that situation again in less than two years, but do you think they will extend Windows 7 support for two years? In contrast, the “old” Microsoft extended support for XP for two extra years because it was so popular approaching its scheduled EOL, which must have cost a king’s ransom, with no chance there would ever be any return on that expenditure. There was a time that intentionally making Microsoft’s own customers vulnerable to malware to try to force them to accept a product that they don’t want would have been unthinkable.
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There was a time that MS would not have thought of distributing what can only be considered to be a Trojan horse in an update that is supposed to be for increasing security, but whose payload is meant to disable security updates on perfectly functional Windows installations just because they were installed against the dictates of Microsoft’s marketing plan (which says that new CPUs must have 10, regardless of what their owners wish). There was a time that Microsoft would never have used the Windows Update system to deliver adware, let alone deceptive adware that used dark patterns to try to trick people into upgrading to a version of Windows that tries to take over your computer and press it into servitude to Microsoft. You’re calling them on what they are doing right now, and that’s not a bad thing. I don’t think you need to change anything… you’re not calling Microsoft out for their misbehavior because you are harboring some old grudge. It certainly describes the Windows portion of MS to a T, and that happens to be the only part of MS I care about. MS doesn’t need to do that any more.Ĭould not agree more on the “didn’t get the memo” part. This kind of incident is exactly what I would’ve expected from Microsoft a decade or two ago - lie and cover up. But some parts of Microsoft didn’t get the memo. Admittedly, demonstrably, Microsoft has changed. People tell me that Microsoft has changed, and I should change with it. Not good for us users and, maybe, not even good for MS itself. But, whatever the reason in each case, there is a pattern here, and it is not a good one. It could be insufficient allocation of resources to take care of Windows, or some psychological disturbance, or perhaps even IQ problems, at the top of the company, or an unnecessarily nasty way to get rid of what management has finally decided are unwanted customers. On the other hand, when it comes to trying to deal with a new big problem, or to start doing some big new thing, such as the already mentioned patching in March to vaccinate the OS against the Intel’s Spectre/Meltdown problem, or first introducing and now”upgrading” (“ascending”?) Win 10 as Service into the Cloud, or dealing with this Pentium III situation, MS has been doing, consistently, a really poor job and even a reprehensibly bad one.
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For example, with the exception of the March Spectre/Meltdown patch apocalypse, I have not had any real problems with my Office 2010 and Win 7, Group B security and E11 updates, for quite a while now. I have noticed that MS is still doing OK in routine matters, at least those that I expect them to take care regularly for me.