Why I Hate Microsoft

Microsoft is the most known software producer with its flagship product, Windows, operating around 90% personal computers. Is it because Windows is so good?

The success of Microsoft was based on the following:

• they won the market of personal computers in 90-s (mainly used for typing documents)
  • by buying 86-DOS and selling it to IBM,
  • by producing Windows which required less resources than its competitor OS/2,
  • and by giving the users nice-looking Word and Excel;
• once owning the market, they are doing everything to kill any possible competitor.

I hate Microsoft because of the last point. Their tactics can be both legal and illegal (looking at the number of legal processes associated with them). Sometimes they buy the competitor, or buy their customers, or make some special deals with hardware vendors, etc.

Windows might be good for some users, but it does not fit all (e.g., it is not good for the job I am doing). The lack of competition is screwing the development of personal computers.

Dear Santa, please make so that Microsoft goes bankrupt till the next Christmas, otherwise there is no-one else to stop their greed.