Ok it's officially a series, there are two of them.
In this series I am doing a little poking fun at the computer companies we love, for fun and as an exercise in free speech. I guess I survived the expected attacks from Apple fanbois so is there anyone who expected me to let Microsoft off the hook?
Don't expect any fast breaking news, I'm just having fun here.
Bill Gates' brain child Microsoft the publisher of the Operating systems and Productivity tools. DOS and Windows, the most un-unix of the Unix family.
Also know for a time as "the evil empire" and
Microsoft was initially known for another thing, BASIC. Not that their stuff is basic but that they made BASIC for Unix, DOS, and other platforms. VB.net now but BASIC is not just a basic programming language, most people forget what it stands for, Beginners All purpose Symbolic Instruction Code. Yes, Beginners and Instruction, so, for people who don't yet know how to really program to learn with and eventually move on to a "real" programming language like say Forth or Lisp (or C, Java, VC#...) but somehow people forgot that they weren't using a real language and now half the world runs on VB, thanks Bill.
The founder of Microsoft is the ultimate geek's geek. He made the tools that a lot of us geeks use to make tools for real people. I follow his example and make tools using his tools for other geeks to make tools. I think that makes us all tools.
Bill Gates, the ultimate ladies man, skinny, paste white skin, but lots of money.
Microsoft, known to some as "The Evil Empire" because of their long running battle with those people who would have all information and software free (as in speech not necessarily as in beer.)
They got this name for a lot of things, destroying Netscape, Novel Networks, Borland Compilers and trying to kill Linux. They lost a battle about abusing their monopoly in desktop computers and in Europe about what web browser people use but they still hold the top spot in Desktop computer OSs although they lost the battle for mobile platforms to Android and iOS. I still think that Windows Mobile 6.5 is the best mobile OS but I am just 1 person and apparently it is "too computery".
So what did Microsoft do? They changed their mobile OS to be much more dumber down (but apparently not as dumbed down as iOS and Android since it still doesn't sell) and then tried to put that mobile OS on the computers on our desktops. Apparently you shouldn't make computers less computery as it didn't catch on and so they got so befuddled by that they forget how to count. Yup Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10. Either they switched to Base 9 counting or some have suggested "7 ate 9".
It's OK they forget how to count in previous occasions as well, notably with Excel 2007. (850*77.1 = 65535 Not 100,000)
One of the more innovative things to come from Microsoft in recent years is Patch Tuesday. One day a month everything that needs a fix delivered to your desktop all at once to every desktop system world wide. One day a month for all IT folks to panic and hope the latest rushed out fixes don't break every system in their networks. Thanks Microsoft.
There you go, Microsoft, what would we do without you.
Assimilation over Evolution, you will be Assimilated!
This is my journey from human to Borg and you are invited along for the ride.
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