Microsoft Hatred FAQ

[Jeroen Wenting]

"Peter T. Breuer" <ptb at oboe.it.uc3m.es> wrote in message 
news:t3k623-c5c.ln1 at news.it.uc3m.es...
> In comp.os.linux.misc Jeroen Wenting <jwenting at hornet dot demon dot nl> 
> wrote:
>> Without Microsoft 90% of us would never have seen a computer more 
>> powerful
>> than a ZX-81 and 90% of the rest of us would never have used only dumb
>> mainframe terminals.
>
> Uh - when microsoft produced dos 1.0, or whatever it was, I was sitting
> at my Sun 360 workstation (with 4M of RAM, later upgraded to 8M),
> running SunOS 3.8 or thereabouts.
>
And how many people who now have $500 PCs ($200 of which is the cost of the 
OS) would have been able to afford those?

My point is that Microsoft made computers that were more than glorified 
gaming consoles affordable for the common man.
They are the ones who lowered the price of shrinkwrapped software for home 
and office application from thousands or tens of thousands to hundreds of 
dollars.