Microsoft was attacking UNIX from all sides trying to get companies to purchase Windows NT since it failed as a desktop OS to replace DOS/Windows. Besides the fake licensing of Win32 to UNIX software vendors( Bristol Win32/U for example ) they purchased a powerhouse in the movie and film industry, SoftImage.

Microsoft bought the company and forced them to make a version for Windows and tried to kill the UNIX version. The developers wouldn't have it and neither did their customers. Internally they kept the UNIX version updated and customers kept purchasing the UNIX versions. For one reason was that server farms were running 7/24 and for days at a time rendering images for the film industry. Crashing Windows NT on the server farms cost millions of dollars in lost time.

Microsoft eventually relented once they'd killed off most all other UNIX workstation software via the Win32 licensing bait and switch trick. They spun SoftImage off as it's own company again or they sold it but either way it was independent and without ties to Microsoft.

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That's hilarious. When companies believed Windows could replace UNIX and they migrated it became quite obvious Windows was NOT reliable. When one UNIX server could run an entire SMB from email, purchasing, marketing, finance and more all running software services on one UNIX box 7/24 the Microsoft solution ended up eating millions in corporate profits. IT departments needed to purchase a Windows server license and hardware for each service the company wanted to run AND a 2nd one for each for fail-over to get even close to what the one UNIX box provided. 1 UNIX box became 4 Windows Server boxes and then 8 Windows Server boxes with all the failover machines. IT department budgets ballooned but the hook was set and those who made they choice to move from UNIX were not fired, they just purchased more software and more hardware.

Did you ever think of why Virtual Machine software became so popular so quickly? That's right, crashing Microsoft Windows machines were the reason. Most of those 8 Windows Server machines were sitting idle much of the 7/24. So one of those servers running 2 virtual machines(one active and one for failover) would cut the number of machines needed in half. Put a pair of corporate services on a single machine running 4 virtual machines and now you saved more and your hardware is started to see some CPU cycles.

Windows, Windows NT etc were pieces of shit software but Microsoft was a great marketing company and the leveraged their dominance gained by their shrewd licensing arrangements(often illegal) with hardware vendors.

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You obviously never say any of the court documents nor articles about how Microsoft pulled a fast one by licensing Win32 source to a handful of companies for Win32-to-UNIX software compatibility then quadrupled the licensing fee effectively killing any software running on UNIX which used these tools. It was a huge porting effort to go from UNIX to Win32 but companies were promised they could then support one codebase and get a product which ran on both Windows NT and UNIX. They suckered thousands of UNIX software vendors and quickly a ton of UNIX software was obsolete.

hint: https://www.usenix.org/legacy/publications/library/proceedings/usenix-nt98/full_papers/paas/paas.pdf

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Promises to release on a platform is just bullsh;t even if there are performance level specified. Microsoft is notorious for both dragging their feet on even the smallest of software projects when other platforms are targets.

This is like having a peanut vending machine for hand-feeding a captive T-Rex. Put any living/realistic deadly creature in you want the point is you do not feed that beast. Your lawyers and execs are very ignorant if they think they can compete with Microsoft while Microsoft puts apps/software on your platform.

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2035? WTH is that supposed to do when in the late 90s they also had a mandate for a percentage of EVs sold in CA and that was thrown out the window. Remember "Who killed the Electric Car"? Hydrogen became the future in the early 2000s so CA let GM collect and destroy their EVs( EV1 ) and GM teamed up with the oil industry so that a promissing EV battery technology would not get used in EVs. GM sold them the battery technology patent and CA pulled the plug on the EV mandate when George Bush promoted hydrogen powered vehicles as being the future. LOL, it will always be the automotive propulsion technology of the future.

The CA State government couldn't lead a horse to water because they wouldn't know what water was. They'd probably lead the horses to the ocean.

Top that off with how they let the CA PUC undermine the operation of nuclear power plant in Oceanside CA and allowing it to be shut down at the public's expense. This was after the owners of the nuclear power plant played games with the generator steam tube replacements by attempting to redesign them for a few more percentage points of output performance but forced the expense to be under $200 million dollars so State and Fed evaluation would be sidestepped. Well, the redesign failed and instead of replacing the new failed plumbing with the stock design they got the CA PUC to allow them to scrap the whole nuclear power plant and bill the public for scrapping of the facility.

Forcing a small number of wealthy individuals to pay for a consumer subsidized product is a line which shouldn't be crossed. Taxing and putting it into the general fund is another story but picking a product, ie EV vehicle purchases, is pretty nutz.

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Apple came up with a multi-tiered filesystem component, Bendo?, which was to be used as a CORBA based app platform, OpenDOC?, which was to allow users of the platform to create content with different types of data which was rendered by modules pulled of the network. The user picked the vendor components they preferred but defaults were also available to viewers of the data.

Think like word processing where you'd have a test editing component doing standard font, paragraph, layout with another component being a spell checker. If you found a really good spell checker, it was used in your wordprocessing component, your presentation component, your spreadsheets, your HTML creation component, etc.

That was going to be game changing but most existing bloated app vendors hated it as it broke up their kingdoms and put the power of component selection into the hands of the creators. The hardware and networking speeds were also not ready for it. But Apple, IBM, WorkPerfect and a few others made some components before shutting it down. I think Apple did a web browser called CyberDog.

Gotta change your mindset of how things ARE done to how things CAN be done to have a chance of shaking things up.

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so thinner gold plating and less of a weight issue and not so funny of a joke.

But, this IS very funny: "Trump was 100% aware..."

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This was done under the Trump Presidency so they are probably still trying to figure out how to build such a plane which can still fly with everything inside coated in gold plating. They figured he was kidding when they were told of the requirement.

BTW, Boeing CEO, Muilenburg naively believed Trump had an actual economic plan, got buddy buddy with Trump and kissed his ass and the plane contract was part of that ass-kissing.

Wallow in your own stink dirty piggy.

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We are talking about Microsoft correct? Spreading software with GPL license violations is something they paid millions to help Caldera attack opensource software users. They will just let it run until a court tells them to stop, it'll take them 8 months to undo the code and stop it and then 6 months later they will start posting how GPL violations have spread and why their Microsoft Licensed software is the safer bet.

Or are we talking about some other company instead of Microsoft?
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it is been well over two decades since they left DOS behind and yet over and over they fail to provide the industry standard of robustness in operating systems.
There really is no hope that it will ever happen no matter who is running the company. Game over, move on and move along.

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Just as they keep repeating that "this is the most secure Windows ever made" etc etc. Microsoft is a great marketing company and as such they constantly do things which are not truthful or worst, are deceptive.
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I'm in my 40s and in a leadership role at my company; I refuse to use or accept business cards from anyone and have for more than 20 years. There is absolutely no reason, whatsoever, that anyone should use them in 2022.

when ever there are financial hardships open source software starts getting looked at. And when open source software like Linux starts getting looked at, Microsoft and Bill Gates start chipping in. But it's all about the kids, the girls and how politics get in the way right?

I hardly ever hear much about politics are robotics build sessions or meetings. Nor at maker space builds of other types of things.
Always here about money needed for licenses for this that and the other things though.

Go figure, here comes Bill Gates like a shining armored knight ready to save us with Microsoft software. oh boy, thankyou sir may I have another?

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This is the context which should have been added to the blurb IMHO. Over the course of 2021, Google was doing ~5.6B per day.

While 2.5B in a year is admirable, particularly because competition in the search space is incredibly important; Brave isn't even making a dent.

If you throw enough shit at a wall eventually something will stick. Microsoft, the forever follower of technology, keeps throwing stinky stuff and the only users of this kind of stuff is usually just their hardcore fanbois who's offices are filled with Microsoft swag. Or those companies they pay to use it and then do marketing ads showing how well it's doing.

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