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No it's worse. Yes Microsoft used their market share and deep pockets to drink other companies milkshake, but they didn't use control over the OS to prevent uses from installing competitors software.

As a friend said 10 years ago, this is the end of general purpose computing.



Oh, that is definitely not true.

Internal OS code was ‘tweaked’ to cause problems for certain 3rd party applications.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DR-DOS#Competition_from_Micros...

Taken from child reply.



Yes, and it mentions SuperStor, ugh.

Having ‘Stacker’ flashbacks.




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