Ah yes, Worst Great Western.

See, I thought about M$, but if they weren't around I'd have to spend a ridiculous chunk of the moving out money on a PC, or Googling for OS answers

Me no understandy

My choice would effectively be a Mac or Linux if M$ weren't around

Closing MS would be the most foolish action anyone could take, the market would then be left to apple and linux.
The reason why people don't like microsoft I assume is because they are almost a monopoly and they abuse thier market power in the OS market. Higher prices decreased innovation and dirty tactics to hold thier market share.
Those practises ocur with all private monopolies and get worse as they are not contested eliminating microsoft just makes apple the new microsoft and you get exactly the same treatment but worse as there is less innovation, cos at least microsoft [LIFTED] it every time there is an element of threat to thier market share.

I'd just want tosee all the tabloid newspapers go bust.

I agree that MS are doing the world a great service, but otherwise I understand barely a word of your post.

Looking back just a few years, if you wanted a network then you had to pay someone like Novelle a huge amount of cash for the software. These days, Windows et al include basic networking in the cost of the OS. With Windows '95 and NT, Microsoft broke what was in danger of becoming a monopoly on networking and prices crashed as a result.

Most MS software is priced at a level far below what it would otherwise have been, but it's still expensive enough to encourage competition. Rock bottom prices give no incentive to develop new products. We have plenty of economical options for everything at the moment, and I think that's largely down to MS. I don't really remember the days when IBM was God, but I do remember that everything was pretty damned big and expensive. These days, Microsoft SBS is a few hundred pounds and very few people run IBM anything.


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T-mobile should be destroyed.

Hands down.