@arzachel I truly hate every aspect of Bill Gates, including his so-called "Humanitarian Work". That's the common thing I find among idiots.

"Yeah, you can say you hate Bill Gates for his company, but what about his humanitarian work?"

I think that argument no longer works. It's proved completely false. He was already experimenting on those poor african children, now he's doing this fucking bullshit.
@arzachel Everything Microsoft "invented" was actually taken from other people. An excerpt from my article "Windows 10: Considered Harmful"

However, this is nothing new. It has long been assumed and once confirmed (in the Windows NT/2000 Source leaks) that no one knows what they're doing. Bill Gates especially doesn't know a thing about the correct way computers work, and his DOS and Windows 95/98 were the buggiest things when they were contemporary. They were even laughed at by computer professionals! It seems that he either has learned nothing (a high probability) or has fired all the developers that help fulfill his horrid and abysmal philosophy for younger redditors (and former tumblrites) that are more in tune with what the computer illiterate population want to see in a computer. After all, it was Windows (and less so, but equally to blame) Latter-day Apple Computing Co. that was the leader in promoting computer illiteracy in the modern generation.

Another way to truly know that Microsoft doesn't know what the hell they're doing is by simply looking at their history in actions. Nearly everything that Microsoft owns was made by someone else. DOS was primarially made by IBM and others before Microsoft started branding it as such, and besides that fact, it was also heavily ripped off of CP/M. Internet Explorer was originally made by Spyglass, which itself was a fork of the original Mosaic browser. The UI Design of Windows 1 through 3 were all heavily stolen off of pre-exising GUI enviornments at the time, including VisiOn and Apple Finder. They even copied most of the basic shell for the Windows system from FreeBSD. The only thing you can say Microsoft actually created was Altair Basic, but that was so simplisitc that everyone else easily copied it. Everything Microsoft has bought-out they have poorly maintained.

Some more examples:

Lotus Notes was the original program purchased to make Office
The famous 3D Pinball was not made by Microsoft but was a stripped-down, licened version of Maxis 3D Pinball
OS/2 was made in a joint-venture by IBM and Microsoft, and Microsoft hardly contributed to it, leaving IBM to continue alone

Microsoft has always been the laughing stock of the Computing World. It's just that they had better marketing to become the industry standard. I can prove this. Look at the things that Richard Stallman has complained about: School Deals! One of my many High Schools had in its Computer Room posters from the 1990's Microsoft Advertising Campaign. The poster claimed that all computers were MSDOS until Microsoft invented the GUI!

@se7en Would love to read the full articles-- is it online?

@se7en @arzachel his "humanitarian work" is making the world actively worse. it's pushing feminism and other woke bullshit.
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