Bigeyez said:
SharPhoe said:
Bigeyez said:
SharPhoe said:
...Can I ask an honest question? Why does everyone keep abbreviating Microsoft as "M$"? Is it supposed to be derogatory?
Originally yeah I think it started out as a derogatory thing. Nowadays everyone (or at least I do) simply use M$ to not write out Microsoft.
Alright then. Still, why not just MS? It's not like people on a gaming forum are going to confuse it for Multiple Sclerosis first...
I really don't know. The abbreviation M$ just stuck with people for some reason.
Probably because of how in the time that you take a piss, Bill Gates makes more money than you will in an entire lifetime?
Maybe because of how MS doesn't innovate, doesn't create anything new or special, but instead stagnates, creating forced obsoletion and using marketing inferior products for profit? (see: Windows OS, Halo franchise, etc.)
Or perhaps because of how they bury technology that is better than theirs, because they don't want competition? Either destroy the opposing company with their deep pockets, or purchase them and save those good ideas for later, the next iteration of their money-making products.
Don't think I'm bitter. I admire it, honestly - they're some of the best businessmen around. It's just that since I'm all for the advancing of technology/society/people's lives getting better, it pains me to see Office 2007 come out and people actually spend money for something worse than 2003 (which is worse than any Open Office I've ever used.)
And I feel bad about what happened with OS/2 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OS/2], and how Windows is basically a huge rip of it. And how MS-DOS is again, a huge rip off of other iterations of DOS, and how Vista/7 remind me of Mac OS-X, which was just a rip off of BSD Linux, etc...
They do some things great, they do some things terribly, and I can't believe how many LIVE subscriptions there are, but silly me with my Dreamcast always thought online gaming was going to be free, eh? Heh.
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Long story short, just saying that the company is very focused on money, not customer service, not creating a good product, but "beating the competition" in any way possible, even if that includes destroying a different product or trying to make a different product unusable for certain consumers (see support for windows software on mac/linux). This works for them in the corporate world, but I would like to see advancement in OS technology, and I doubt it would really come from them, as they seem to repackage the same old thing every few years and say "Oh you need to upgrade and change because our new software will stop supporting our old version of the OS."
