Microsoft is a criminal enterprise!
Let's call Microsoft what it is - a monopoly with no morals or qualms about pursuing whatever activity will turn a buck or destroy its competition.
I worked for a company which made several deals to have our software bundled by several computer manufacturers in the 1990s. The contracts were ready to be signed when Microsoft called them up and threatened to jerk their license as a Windows distributor. No ability to put Windows on their computers, and they'd be out of business.
I believe in legal terms, this is known as EXTORTION!!! And yes, all those contracts immediately fell through and MS did eventually put us out of business, eliminating their #1 competitor. Thank YOU Bush administration for calling off the monopoly investigation of Microsoft, which had gotten as far as having a judge rule that the office and OS divisions had to be split into separate companies. That would have prevented the sort of crime they committed against us! Make enough "campaign contributions" and you can buy any politician, and MS certainly bought the Bush administration.
So I'm not surprised to see that MS has now moved from extortion to spying on its own users, data destruction, and robbery. (What else can you call it when they delete 3rd party software that you PAID for?) This is a company that was founded on deception, and nothing has changed since day one. IBM came to them thinking they had an OS that they might use for their upcoming PC, MS didn't but Bill Gates raced to somebody he knew who'd written a knockoff of C/PM and offered him $50,000 for it that he didn't have, and IBM was stupid enough to buy it, thus unleashing the monstrosity known as Microsoft on the world. How MS got away with creating Windows while working as a "partner" on OS/2 with IBM without getting sued into oblivion for contract violation and misuse of patents is beyond me! After all, MS lost their lawsuits against DrDOS, a better version of DOS which was MS's cash cow, and with competition in that sphere, they'd have gone bankrupt.
If only...
Biting the hand that feeds IT
