Scrapps:
Typos, like s***t, happen!! And of course I was buying hardware from Dell not software. But as I said, buy Microsoft's OS with the machine, and you got the Microsoft stuff whether you liked it or not, and if you didn't take it, you paid the same, and Microsoft got your 2c anyway.
Along the way, I've bought an IBM laptop and a couple of Compaq 486's for my business, and was disappointed with the quality of IBM's hardware, and the "screw the customer attitude" of Compaq's tech support. But the OS/software deals were no different from Dell's, so it wasn't just through Dell that Microsoft was executing its game plan to kill its OS and application software competition.
If I'd had the time (at the time I was buying this hardware), I'd have built the darned things myself, something that's gotten a lot easier over the last few years, and something I may do for my next upgrade.
As I said, it is just a personal viewpoint. I resented being forced to pay for application software I didn't want and don't use. Maybe a better remedy than break-up would be to force Microsoft to pay back all the customers like me for the amount they were ripped off over the years. Impossible to implement of course, but I'd go for that.
David T. |
