Companies Microsoft Killed - Chris Titus Tech
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Date: 2022-03-21
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Brian
But it is good news that Firefox is still viable. It's a great story. In the wake of Netscape collapsing, its engineers started got together to collect the ashes and released the Mozilla Browser, which was basically an open source clone of Netscape Navigator. It grew in popularity and eventually gave birth to the Mozilla Foundation, which then started working on other projects like the Thunderbird email client.
By 2004 or so, the Mozilla Foundation began to focus its browser efforts on a new browser, Firefox, which became the second most used, and growing, browser in the world after MS IE. By 2010 or so, though, Firefox was feeling bloated and buggy, and Google had introduced the Chrome browser, which, by comparison, was faster and had a cleaner interface. By the early 2010s, Chrome had overtaken Firefox in market share, and very soon after, Internet Explorer. Microsoft Edge never really presented a challenge.
Today, Firefox has only about 10% of the market, but is a much better product than a few years ago, and has a new focus on efficiency and security. Discriminating users are beginning to be wary of life in a Google-centric world, and Firefox may have some gains in its future. I've been checking it out myself, and the improvements over the years, and contrast in mission, to Chrome is impressive.
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But it is good news that Firefox is still viable. It's a great story. In the wake of Netscape collapsing, its engineers started got together to collect the ashes and released the Mozilla Browser, which was basically an open source clone of Netscape Navigator. It grew in popularity and eventually gave birth to the Mozilla Foundation, which then started working on other projects like the Thunderbird email client.
By 2004 or so, the Mozilla Foundation began to focus its browser efforts on a new browser, Firefox, which became the second most used, and growing, browser in the world after MS IE. By 2010 or so, though, Firefox was feeling bloated and buggy, and Google had introduced the Chrome browser, which, by comparison, was faster and had a cleaner interface. By the early 2010s, Chrome had overtaken Firefox in market share, and very soon after, Internet Explorer. Microsoft Edge never really presented a challenge.
Today, Firefox has only about 10% of the market, but is a much better product than a few years ago, and has a new focus on efficiency and security. Discriminating users are beginning to be wary of life in a Google-centric world, and Firefox may have some gains in its future. I've been checking it out myself, and the improvements over the years, and contrast in mission, to Chrome is impressive.
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Al
Here in germany cities like munich proposed to switch to linux not long ago. But then the responsible pro-linux politician Christian Ude got so much pressure from other politicians, other parties and even microsoft themselves, that they blew that plan off.
At one point even Steven Balmer and then Bill Gates himself visited Mister Ude in private, in Gates luxurious car, camouflaged as a delivery van from outside, to talk -sense- into Mister Ude.
Microsoft is highly aggressive and their business actions don't seem to be very holy or morally ideal. I don't trust Gates and microsoft at all, no matter how much he plays the charity man and talks about vaccines. Something seems to be fundamentaly corrupt about that guy and i don't trust him.
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Here in germany cities like munich proposed to switch to linux not long ago. But then the responsible pro-linux politician Christian Ude got so much pressure from other politicians, other parties and even microsoft themselves, that they blew that plan off.
At one point even Steven Balmer and then Bill Gates himself visited Mister Ude in private, in Gates luxurious car, camouflaged as a delivery van from outside, to talk -sense- into Mister Ude.
Microsoft is highly aggressive and their business actions don't seem to be very holy or morally ideal. I don't trust Gates and microsoft at all, no matter how much he plays the charity man and talks about vaccines. Something seems to be fundamentaly corrupt about that guy and i don't trust him.
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Becky
I remember using WordPerfect in the 90's for homework assignments. I also LOVED Netscape (and yes, even I called it Nutscrape).
MS/Windows always had a shadiness to them... Back then, it was damn near IMPOSSIBLE to cross-platform (Spent 4 hours designing a program for a school musical on Windows 95, only to realize the file wasn't compatible with the school Mac systems, leading to me spending A WHOLE SCHOOL DAY in the computer lab, redesigning the program for THAT WEEKEND'S shows), so you really had to weigh your needs before making a system purchase.
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I remember using WordPerfect in the 90's for homework assignments. I also LOVED Netscape (and yes, even I called it Nutscrape).
MS/Windows always had a shadiness to them... Back then, it was damn near IMPOSSIBLE to cross-platform (Spent 4 hours designing a program for a school musical on Windows 95, only to realize the file wasn't compatible with the school Mac systems, leading to me spending A WHOLE SCHOOL DAY in the computer lab, redesigning the program for THAT WEEKEND'S shows), so you really had to weigh your needs before making a system purchase.
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Danie
Yes many of us won't forget those business practices... Because I used to build up my own computers I remember being told by a retailer back in the 1990's that they could not sell new computers without Windows OEM installed - reason was apparently if they did not sell exclusively Windows OEM on all new computers, they'd have to pay more for Windows OS. Not sure if it was actually correct but it's stuck in my mind since then. I do also recall moving backwards from an Amiga 500 to Windows - the Amiga was way ahead of Windows back then.
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Yes many of us won't forget those business practices... Because I used to build up my own computers I remember being told by a retailer back in the 1990's that they could not sell new computers without Windows OEM installed - reason was apparently if they did not sell exclusively Windows OEM on all new computers, they'd have to pay more for Windows OS. Not sure if it was actually correct but it's stuck in my mind since then. I do also recall moving backwards from an Amiga 500 to Windows - the Amiga was way ahead of Windows back then.
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Brian
10:00 --- Meanwhile, I've been saving documents as PDFs from OpenOffice starting the mid-2000s, and, subsequently, its open source successor, LibreOffice, for nearly a decade now. Stories of MS coming around to adding features available in open source projects for years are legend, kind of like Apple introducing features in iPhones that have typically existed in Android phones for 3 product generations, and hailing it as -breakthrough- and -revolutionary- technology.
Yawn. People will be people, and then there's Apple users.
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10:00 --- Meanwhile, I've been saving documents as PDFs from OpenOffice starting the mid-2000s, and, subsequently, its open source successor, LibreOffice, for nearly a decade now. Stories of MS coming around to adding features available in open source projects for years are legend, kind of like Apple introducing features in iPhones that have typically existed in Android phones for 3 product generations, and hailing it as -breakthrough- and -revolutionary- technology.
Yawn. People will be people, and then there's Apple users.
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Andrew
Lotus 123 or SmartCalc, Word Perfect were very good products.
Microsoft stole A LOT of behaviour used in Microsoft Office from predecessors; even the (non-command line) GUI was not thought of first by Microsoft. If you consider Intellectual Property rights as valid, Microsoft would not be able to sell any of its Office products if rights to its behaviour was strictly enforced.
Which makes Microsoft hypocrites whenever they make an IP threat; sort of like Disney.
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Lotus 123 or SmartCalc, Word Perfect were very good products.
Microsoft stole A LOT of behaviour used in Microsoft Office from predecessors; even the (non-command line) GUI was not thought of first by Microsoft. If you consider Intellectual Property rights as valid, Microsoft would not be able to sell any of its Office products if rights to its behaviour was strictly enforced.
Which makes Microsoft hypocrites whenever they make an IP threat; sort of like Disney.
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TesterWszystkiego
I have to share idea that came up to my mind in this subject: there is way to stop the robbery and mobbing and finely defeat Microsoft. Maybe sound ridiculous, but the plan is:
Apple opens up it's macOS (literally making it OpenSource and publish all of it with Git), anybody can fork it and make distro then. This evolves in giant community and symbiotic OS creature, that becomes unchangeable world standard 8D
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I have to share idea that came up to my mind in this subject: there is way to stop the robbery and mobbing and finely defeat Microsoft. Maybe sound ridiculous, but the plan is:
Apple opens up it's macOS (literally making it OpenSource and publish all of it with Git), anybody can fork it and make distro then. This evolves in giant community and symbiotic OS creature, that becomes unchangeable world standard 8D
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Andrew
A little-known fact: Microsoft attains US government help to pressure foreign governments and businesses not to use Linux because the fact that Linux is free (no cost) constitutes -an unfair business practice- from their perspective. They (Microsoft and the US govt) threaten trade problems in other areas if Linux is adopted by foreign governments or businesses.
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A little-known fact: Microsoft attains US government help to pressure foreign governments and businesses not to use Linux because the fact that Linux is free (no cost) constitutes -an unfair business practice- from their perspective. They (Microsoft and the US govt) threaten trade problems in other areas if Linux is adopted by foreign governments or businesses.
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Texas
I owned a mom and pop ISP for businesses in the 90's... started with a T1 and a bank of USR 28.8 Courriers.. Trumpet Winsock / Netscape was our software distribution for win 3.1.. after 95 came out we could drop the Trumpet cuz 95 had a built in dialer.. we continued to provide and recommend Netscape... IE has always been garbage..
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I owned a mom and pop ISP for businesses in the 90's... started with a T1 and a bank of USR 28.8 Courriers.. Trumpet Winsock / Netscape was our software distribution for win 3.1.. after 95 came out we could drop the Trumpet cuz 95 had a built in dialer.. we continued to provide and recommend Netscape... IE has always been garbage..
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itech
Spot on video... Each update is actually new attempts to make it harder to use Chrome.. and harder to uninstall OneDrive which spies on all your data.. windows 10 spies on ALL your activities..100% sure. It is an illegal system. There should have been massive law suits against it... why no one is doing nothing is beyond me..
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Spot on video... Each update is actually new attempts to make it harder to use Chrome.. and harder to uninstall OneDrive which spies on all your data.. windows 10 spies on ALL your activities..100% sure. It is an illegal system. There should have been massive law suits against it... why no one is doing nothing is beyond me..
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