> Microsoft has never completely ripped off another company's software, lost a lawsuit. I mean, the good folks at Stacker have a huge company today.
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> Microsoft is not being slammed for being big. Microsoft is slammed because they make crappy software and use their monopoly and predatory tactics to push said software down everyone's throat.
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> Stephen

One of the major reasons why Bill Gates was able to reach the heights he did was because he was able to play the market better than Apple. Many computer-knowledgable people (including I) agree that Mac's are superior machines in lots of ways. All blockbuster movies, media graphics, video games, and so much more are created on Mac's. (ironically, often for PC users)

I don't own a Mac nor do I plan on owning one. Why? Because that would sentence me to purchasing products only from Apple itself and few other companies that it lets in on it license. Microsoft develops lots of stuff for PCs, but the great part is when some other fledgling company develops something really great that make more competition to improve the PC. The whole OS near-monopoly of Windows is what kept anyone else from really taking any of Microsoft's power, but people use Windows machines because of all the options out there for them. Conformity can be a good thing here.

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