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.
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.