JourneyThroughHell said:
Nobody says they are the greediest bastards - they're just not particularly customer-friendly.
Oh, and why do you get so bothered by a simple Internet quirk?
Quote didnt work :S This is written by OP :and plus the inherant hypocrisy. you want them to release better products? QUIT BUYING THEIR SHIT THEN! people just seem so intent on filling the gluttonous hole in their lives with whatever gets put out there like fucking junkies. what happened to the days of boycotting shit? grow a pair, get some self control, and say, FUCK YOU MICROSOFT, I'M SITTING THIS ONE OUT UNTIL YOU GET YOUR SHIT STRAIGHT. but nobody does it. they consume and *****. wanna open their eyes? hurt their fucking wallets, it's the only thing that makes them understand. take some of this blame for yourselves, and quit blaming the company exclusively. This is the end of his paragraph.
And this is more proof that you have no idea how Micro$oft works. Micro$oft was the first to make a system that was cheap, and (kinda) user-friendly. Originally the computer was for the important employees in an office, nothing more. But what he did was he actually gave many free copies. This way more and more people got a computer and used the free software from Micro$oft. Everybody understood hwo to use it, and everybody was familiar with it. Other companies were being annihilated, for they didn't have the resources to make cheap or even free software or hardware. Micro$oft ofcourse, was pretty broke by now, so they released a new system, and gave it a price tag. However this wasnt that expensive still, and many people wanted to upgrade. Why would they want to upgrade? Because of stuff like peer pressure, and Micro$oft had made the system so that it would have many bugs, and wouldn't function at his fullest. Everybody who had a Micro$oft system would upgrade to a new Micro$oft system because that is what they are familiar with. Other companies had way other systems that worked diffrently, so nobody bought that, because they didn't understand any of it. This way Micro$oft gained alot of wealth, enough to put many companies out of business. They kept making pretty bad programs and systems, and they kept upgrading them, for a price. People got dependent, and were afraid to buy anything else. The only real competetor these days is Macintosh, but Micro$oft actually bought over game producers to make games exclusivly for Windows. This way Micro$oft got most of the market in their hands. This is why people don't "stop buying their products". They got tricked, and I hope this helps you understand that Micro$oft is very unfair and goes for profit. Also you should notice that Micro$oft kicked the computer industry into overdrive, and that is why I don't necessarily hate them.
/rant
No tl;dr, sorry for the long one
Cya
