TL:DR - Bill Gates has been an evil, rat bastard POS for way longer than most of y'all have been alive 😎
Slow news day. Happy Sunday, frogs!
Thought I'd share.... This guy has been a totalitarian rat fucking bastard literally his entire life. Back during the "browser wars," back in late 2001, I think, Microsoft released Internet Explorer V6, which basically used its stranglehold on the browser ecosystem's market share to shatter the fledgling WWW's standards by forcing developers to make a choice between adhering to those standards or being able to remain compatible with many of the Microsoft systems our clients were using. Often, it required us to develop two entirely distinct products, one for Microsoft clients and one for everyone else. This was due to Microsoft's legendary "EEE" corporate approach to new, competing technologies: Embrace, Extend, Extinguish. In other words, 1) establish yourself as a player, 2) make your product inseparable from dominant Microsoft products (at one time you couldn't unbundle IE6 without uninstalling Windows itself), and, finally, 3) use that dominant position to lock out competing tech (like Netscape).
Anyone else old enough to remember these days? I can remember SO many late nights swearing to God I would "murder" this man, LOL, you have no idea
Son, I remember hating Bill Gates since the 1980s when I was running retail software from Microsoft - it was a total monopoly back then, not only that, but it sucked and was constantly being updated because it sucked.
Plus, I hated reading/hearing on a daily basis the jostling between Gates, Buffet, Walton and Murdoch as to who was the wealthiest person in the world. This was way back in the late 1980s mind you.
I'm 53, I remember playing MSFS 1.0. My 5051 had the red Assembler switch. That said, I you must have woken up to his evil nature way before I did, fren. Maybe it was Windows ME that got me thinking? LOL.
Ha! Okay, not son... brother! I was a Macintosh kid in the 80s so Microsoft was the enemy, for many reasons but especially because they swiped a large portion of Apple’s OS and tried to claim it as their own.
That, and the owner of the retail business that I worked for was an early adopter to Microsoft’s software. Literally paying tens of thousands of dollars for a contract for software that almost daily needed to be connected via dial-up to troubleshooters in Washington. It was super aggravating because I was usually the one tasked with staying after work to make sure the system would boot across multiple stores. This wasn’t a “take a few minutes” task it was sometimes hours if not overnight. It sucked! Because I was so used to just “ringing people up” on an old school cash register - that worked just fine, problem was, keeping track of inventory... oh, and then in 1988 my boss upgraded to Microsoft’s “bar code” system... holy hell I wanted to jump off the roof.
So every time I heard mention of how great Bill Gates was - and this was daily mind you, you couldn’t avoid hearing about the up and coming, super-rich, techno-wonder-kid from Washington, I had had enough.
The first Gulf War hit soon after and my boss pulled the plug on the software agreement, but sadly I wasn't around to witness this because I was onto college.
I started using FreeBSD in the late 90s. Threw in a little Linux. Screw Gates. My first PC(1990) was a 386 with SCO XENIX. I'm one of the lucky few that while I used MS for things like games I had other options for net surfing and web servers. With OpenOffice now etc... why do we need MS anymore? A: WE DON'T!
The only problem with Linux is the game selection is still a little sparse. Everything else is FAR superior to anything MS can offer. I use Slackware myself but that's because I'm old school. When I first used Linux there were only 3-4 distros.
I bought Macs for my daughters after I bought a used one on eBay to try it out. My life was so much easier after that. I wasn’t constantly working on their Windows machines any more. Linux wasn’t an option then for all the school stuff they had to do.
Ah yes, I remember. Sill have/retain my first AOL email acct created on my first computer, a blazing Acer w Win95 and not to brag, but, a dial-up modem... AND CD ROM, which included some PGA golf game that shared the excitement & graphics of Pong, all while taking only 30 seconds or so to load the next hole. Yep, all that tech included for only $1,999 + tax.
Oh... and soon after unpacking, the Acer helpline taught 20-something me about patience, what outsourcing was, and how friendly ppl are in India
LOL I had to laugh. I still have/use my AOL email account to this day. My son was 14 at the time and created accounts for us. We had a Hewlett Packard back then. I learned a hell of a lot from the teenagers back then. ('94-2000) Remember when we had to pay a monthly fee? He is the one who taught me about file sharing and Net ??? (download music/file share to make own CD's) I can't remember the name at the moment.
I only keep that ol' AOL email acct due to distant fam & frens that hit me up from time to time. I actually have the same exact handle, only w Gmail, Proton, Yahoo and others... I forget? I know, the shame w Goog but it's harder for us older Patriots to change crap that's been around for yrs due to obvious reasons.
BTW my daughter was born in '95, son in '90 so I feel ya on the tech advice from that gen which grew up w it. We've earned our stripes, tho!
TL:DR - Bill Gates has been an evil, rat bastard POS for way longer than most of y'all have been alive 😎
Slow news day. Happy Sunday, frogs!
Thought I'd share.... This guy has been a totalitarian rat fucking bastard literally his entire life. Back during the "browser wars," back in late 2001, I think, Microsoft released Internet Explorer V6, which basically used its stranglehold on the browser ecosystem's market share to shatter the fledgling WWW's standards by forcing developers to make a choice between adhering to those standards or being able to remain compatible with many of the Microsoft systems our clients were using. Often, it required us to develop two entirely distinct products, one for Microsoft clients and one for everyone else. This was due to Microsoft's legendary "EEE" corporate approach to new, competing technologies: Embrace, Extend, Extinguish. In other words, 1) establish yourself as a player, 2) make your product inseparable from dominant Microsoft products (at one time you couldn't unbundle IE6 without uninstalling Windows itself), and, finally, 3) use that dominant position to lock out competing tech (like Netscape).
Anyone else old enough to remember these days? I can remember SO many late nights swearing to God I would "murder" this man, LOL, you have no idea
Son, I remember hating Bill Gates since the 1980s when I was running retail software from Microsoft - it was a total monopoly back then, not only that, but it sucked and was constantly being updated because it sucked.
Plus, I hated reading/hearing on a daily basis the jostling between Gates, Buffet, Walton and Murdoch as to who was the wealthiest person in the world. This was way back in the late 1980s mind you.
I'm 53, I remember playing MSFS 1.0. My 5051 had the red Assembler switch. That said, I you must have woken up to his evil nature way before I did, fren. Maybe it was Windows ME that got me thinking? LOL.
What was it, specifically, that did it for you?
Ha! Okay, not son... brother! I was a Macintosh kid in the 80s so Microsoft was the enemy, for many reasons but especially because they swiped a large portion of Apple’s OS and tried to claim it as their own.
That, and the owner of the retail business that I worked for was an early adopter to Microsoft’s software. Literally paying tens of thousands of dollars for a contract for software that almost daily needed to be connected via dial-up to troubleshooters in Washington. It was super aggravating because I was usually the one tasked with staying after work to make sure the system would boot across multiple stores. This wasn’t a “take a few minutes” task it was sometimes hours if not overnight. It sucked! Because I was so used to just “ringing people up” on an old school cash register - that worked just fine, problem was, keeping track of inventory... oh, and then in 1988 my boss upgraded to Microsoft’s “bar code” system... holy hell I wanted to jump off the roof.
So every time I heard mention of how great Bill Gates was - and this was daily mind you, you couldn’t avoid hearing about the up and coming, super-rich, techno-wonder-kid from Washington, I had had enough.
The first Gulf War hit soon after and my boss pulled the plug on the software agreement, but sadly I wasn't around to witness this because I was onto college.
I was going to say, you didn't want to stab him in the face after ME? Lol.
ME was TERRIBLE...so was VISTA!
are you a man or wman catsfive just out of interest?
He's not a Windows man, hence the Beastie meme.
Damn, I remember when Word Perfect and Adobe were both around. I didn't start to dabble in the computer world until around the early 1990's.
Word Perfect was great! Ah the glory days. Just aged myself there.
The Libre Office suite is awesome. I've been using that since the first version of that was publicly released.
I started using FreeBSD in the late 90s. Threw in a little Linux. Screw Gates. My first PC(1990) was a 386 with SCO XENIX. I'm one of the lucky few that while I used MS for things like games I had other options for net surfing and web servers. With OpenOffice now etc... why do we need MS anymore? A: WE DON'T!
I switched our 6 PC household over to Linux Mint this summer when I saw the Windows 11 BS coming. Never regretted it once.
Bonus to no bloat and spyware: Windows Networking and Remote Desktop works FLAWLESSLY in Linux Mint.
This will be my next move. I like Mint!
The only problem with Linux is the game selection is still a little sparse. Everything else is FAR superior to anything MS can offer. I use Slackware myself but that's because I'm old school. When I first used Linux there were only 3-4 distros.
I bought Macs for my daughters after I bought a used one on eBay to try it out. My life was so much easier after that. I wasn’t constantly working on their Windows machines any more. Linux wasn’t an option then for all the school stuff they had to do.
Loved netscape
Ah yes, I remember. Sill have/retain my first AOL email acct created on my first computer, a blazing Acer w Win95 and not to brag, but, a dial-up modem... AND CD ROM, which included some PGA golf game that shared the excitement & graphics of Pong, all while taking only 30 seconds or so to load the next hole. Yep, all that tech included for only $1,999 + tax.
Oh... and soon after unpacking, the Acer helpline taught 20-something me about patience, what outsourcing was, and how friendly ppl are in India
LOL I had to laugh. I still have/use my AOL email account to this day. My son was 14 at the time and created accounts for us. We had a Hewlett Packard back then. I learned a hell of a lot from the teenagers back then. ('94-2000) Remember when we had to pay a monthly fee? He is the one who taught me about file sharing and Net ??? (download music/file share to make own CD's) I can't remember the name at the moment.
Ha! You mean "burning" a CD?
I only keep that ol' AOL email acct due to distant fam & frens that hit me up from time to time. I actually have the same exact handle, only w Gmail, Proton, Yahoo and others... I forget? I know, the shame w Goog but it's harder for us older Patriots to change crap that's been around for yrs due to obvious reasons.
BTW my daughter was born in '95, son in '90 so I feel ya on the tech advice from that gen which grew up w it. We've earned our stripes, tho!