What would the state of PC be had Microsoft been broken up back in the late '90's/early 2000's? Would there be more competition in the OS arena? I want to know if OS's like the BSD's and Linux could have a bigger share of the market.
What would the state of PC be had Microsoft been broken up back in the late '90's/early 2000's? Would there be more competition in the OS arena? I want to know if OS's like the BSD's and Linux could have a bigger share of the market.
Bigger than they have in OTL ? No. Every Mac runs BSD, and every Android phone runs Linux.
What would the state of PC be had Microsoft been broken up back in the late '90's/early 2000's? Would there be more competition in the OS arena? I want to know if OS's like the BSD's and Linux could have a bigger share of the market.
Bigger than they have in OTL ? No. Every Mac runs BSD, and every Android phone runs Linux.
You guys are overreaching the implication, the whole monopoly suit was because MS was not a mere OS developers, but so much software ended up putting rivals in bad place, what happened other spreadsheet besides excel? and so on.Yes, bigger than OTL. Could Red Hat (either before or after spinning off Fedora), SUSE, or the Debian community make some in-roads, and could there be a Mark Shuttleworth-type to spin off an *Ubuntu for PC's.
1) a healthier programming industry across the board,. . . the whole monopoly suit was because MS was not a mere OS developers, but so much software ended up putting rivals in bad place, what happened other spreadsheet besides excel? and so on. . .
1)Ummm Depend, now office and Explorer/Edge will have the nightmare of optimize for windows after the OS is released, that might make the OS company to improve that one, Office could adapt easy...Explorer...ummm.1) a healthier programming industry across the board,
2) because of the distraction and frustration, Bill Gates is slower to get involved in global public health?
Try using 2003 for a bit and I think you’ll change your mind. My job has some legacy systems and it’s pretty painful to use XP era office in comparison.There would be a lot more innovation.
MS 1990 to 2003 was super hot and innovative in the Office arena until it had destroyed the competition.
The latest Excel for instance is no real advance on 2003.
At the point MS is broke up(and if apple die as requirement), some might adopt or stay with windows by inertia but private ones will benefit of a bidding war for 'software services'wouldn't it depend a lot on just how much these different systems can interact? While it's not really an issue today, back in the 90s? If you have different businesses/government agencies that all use different systems that are incompatible, that's a problem...
which is fine for innovation, but can these competing services interact with each other? If not, then problem...At the point MS is broke up(and if apple die as requirement), some might adopt or stay with windows by inertia but private ones will benefit of a bidding war for 'software services'
They will, as say before, the thing is now Office have to compete in open market with other third parties when come to program to windows(rather just using the internal memo and barely optimize till 2 year later anyway), you now need make it good day one, ditto explore and ditto having Windows OS compatible with other software, both former MS and Third party.which is fine for innovation, but can these competing services interact with each other? If not, then problem...
Try using 2003 for a bit and I think you’ll change your mind. My job has some legacy systems and it’s pretty painful to use XP era office in comparison
The graphs are much much nicer, I'm a huge fan of being able to have more than 65k rows, and everything is more polished. Sure the basic needs of a spreadsheet were accomplished back in the 1990s, or perhaps earlier with Visicalc or whatever, but the whole experience is dramatically better. A 2000 pickup truck might do all the same tasks as a 2019 one, but overall quality is improved to the same degree as Excel.Would be interested to know what are the new features you are missing when you use 2003...