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user-inactivated · 3127 days ago · link · · parent · post: Did the Microsoft antitrust lawsuit of 2000 accomplish anything?
.. and thereby gave away the server, and scientific computing, and embedded applications including cell phones and tablets, and... If the film effects industry had waiting a few years to jump ship from SGI, and so had linux as a viable platform rather than getting stuck with NT, Microsoft's ecosystem wouldn't have any interesting applications at all. So, yeah, thanks Microsoft, if you hadn't been more short sighted you might not be completely below my radar today. And that would be terrible.But, instead of choosing to go for pushing the industry forward and embracing innovation, MS went with entrenching and creating a decade worth of utterly shit OSes.