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'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.