Why was Bill Gates and Microsoft so hated in the 90s?

>>105926575 (OP)
They weren't. If you had a computer back then, it probably ran Windows. Linux was harder to get and install back then owing to the internet being slow and heavily bandwidth constrained, and Apple was completely irrelevant for that whole decade. The 90s was like a little golden age for Microsoft and they probably never had higher public approval before or since.

>>105926575 (OP)
you think Windows is bad now? in the 90s it was a total shitshow that crashed every 30 minutes

Look up the Halloween Documents and the Bill Gates deposition

>>105926575 (OP)
Windows 9x was total dogshit, that's why.

>>105926599
>They weren't.
fucking idiot, in the 90s Bill Gates was absolutely seen as the son of Satan himself.

>>105926575 (OP)
>Gates
Think Musk, but without the emotional personality. Ruthless, workaholics, hard on themselves and others, demanding/high expectation from others
>Microsoft
Company was ruthlessly doing anti-competitive practices to squash competition. Exclutionary contracts that forces partners to ignore/abandon other competitors was the big part. Others are just legal but cutthroat business practices imo. Like shipping Internet Explorer with Windows, I dont see the issue. They still do it today. There was bullshit argument that shipping IE was monopolistic, but as long as they dont ban competitors from the platform or charge competitors fees to use the platform to make it disadvantageous like Apple is doing, I didnt see any issue. Apple today is worse than Microsoft with regards to abuse

>>105926757
https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/03/biztech/articles/21product.html
>Microsoft now acknowledges the existence of a bug in tens of millions of copies of Windows 95 and Windows 98 that will cause your computer to "stop responding (hang)" -- you know, what you call crash -- after exactly 49 days, 17 hours, 2 minutes and 47.296 seconds of continuous operation.
> The reason you didn't notice this bug yourself is that you've never kept your PC running that long without crashing for one of a thousand other reasons.

>>105926807
>Still, aggrieved PC users around the globe are passing the word in relevant Internet newsgroups: microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion, alt.microsoft.crash. crash.crash, alt.is.bill.gates.satan. (Amazing how many relevant newsgroups there seem to be!)

>>105926575 (OP)
for the same reason microsoft is hated now, they are incompetent developers and aggressive and hostile as a business

What is there not to hate about Bill Katz

>>105926599
>Linux was harder to get and install back then owing to the internet being slow and heavily bandwidth constrained
In the late 90s it was actually really quick and easy to obtain Linux.
Computer magazines put it on their CDs every fucking time combined with all the demos and shitty shovelware that was around.

>>105927302
Not a lot of casual users subscribed to computer magazines, and those who did primarily subscribed to the ones that sent out game demos. Whereas if you bought consumer grade hardware, especially out of like a normie department or big box store, there was a very high probability it came with Windows pre-installed on it.

Back then there was also less reason to care if your computer had Windows on it, because Windows was not adversarial. Things like "telemetry" were hard capped by slow internet/low bandwidth, and things like Recall hadn't been invented yet.

>>105926807
>t. zoomer born in 2003

>>105927860
>Not a lot of casual users subscribed to computer magazines
My man, you could buy those magazines literally anywhere, usually for 5 to 10 bucks. Even at pump stations. If there was some cool CD on the front cover, people bought it, me included. No internet, nor magazine subscription necessary.

>>105927931
I guess maybe I just wasn't looking? Back then my priority was redistributed freeware games and various game demos. I remember seeing those all over the place because I would hunt for them and was sad when they stopped publishing them, but I don't recall seeing Linux, but it might've been in magazines about business software or educational software or something? Either way it wasn't like the modern experience where you hop online, spend 30 seconds downloading something and then get rolling immediately.

>>105927999
Maybe the central European computer magazines were more autistic. SUSE Linux got pushed especially hard.

>>105926575 (OP)
Because Windows fucking sucks.
Believe it or not, it was worse back then. Much worse...

>>105926757
Don't forget about Internet Explorer and Outlook security issues.
You literally could get owned just by receiving an e-mail. Windows still has A LOT of security issues, but the 90's were peak incompetence.
VB, ASP, dotNET were developed by people whose idea of security was a large nigger in front of a door.

People should hate him more today because of his funding of covid virus creation and profiting off of his covid virus vaccine. Then on top of that, he's a frequent Epstein's Lolita express customer. A pedophile, a fraud, and someone that has committed crimes against humanity and potentially a mass murderer the likes of Hitler.

>>105928180
His father literally died due to vaccine complications, LOL.

>>105926575 (OP)
>panem et circenses

>>105926575 (OP)
MS-DOS and Windows were the worst options for operating systems and Office the worst productive suite possible, but at the same time the most wide spread. The only good thing that came from Microsoft in the 90s was the Win95 UI with the task bar. That design survives until today. Everything else was absolutely utter dog shit.

>>105926575 (OP)
You had to basically run two versions of websites, if you wanted to use active elements, one for IE and one for all other browsers. That's how bad it was. Microsoft missed the internet train and they took NCSA Mosaic (the browser) and made Internet Explorer out of it. But it was one among many and didn't even offer many features of modern (back then) browsers, was slow and crashed a lot. So they bend web standards so much in hope to use their dominance to take over the internet and make up for the train they missed before. They had to be stopped by anti-trust cases.

>>105928189
Who cares? We're not talking about his father. Gates was funding the covid virus creation by doing fundraising events with the Covid "bat lady" reasearcher from Wuhan labs. He was also profiting from the virus he helped funded/created by creating the vaccine for the virus he was helping to create.

Literally put in $50-100 million 2-3 months before Covid was made public in China into BioNTech and pulled out few billions from the vaccine that the BioNTech was working on.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Corp.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguish
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween_documents
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AARD_code
Very Jewy activities and behaviors

>thing with power is hated
Microsoft was the face of Big Tech, now it's Google so people hate that. We also used to all hate Walmart and now we all hate Amazon. It's like how Dragon Ball Z has a new villain every arc.

>>105926807
Only IT nerds loved to hate Bill Gates. Normies didn’t care, or just knew him as the trivia answer to “richest man in the world”. People actually used to hang on his every word. Whereas I don’t think many people have ever cared what Zuckerberg has said, Bill Gates was considered an important voice.

>>105928353
False, only consumers loved Gates. Everyone who had any knowledge on computing despised him because he was a parasite.
Him and Jobs literally held back computation for over a decade.