Ok, many people will raise their eye brows and many would have already started writing a hate mail … but yes if there is one company I will give credit for the popularity of computers then it would be M$.
Just to clarify I am not one of this die hard Visual Basic fans, I am totally into open source, and have my own reason to hate M$ (notice the dollar sign)
But if it would not have been M$, the computers would have been still a luxury item for the geeks; people who will give confusing commands to open a vi editor and type Hello world, save the file with Esc : wq and then dance around in the room for what they have accomplished.
Microsoft was one company which made the things easy, made the computers accessible to the common man and continues to do so.
When I was in college learning computers, Unix was part of semester curriculum, we were told that Unix was such a stable system that no change was required in it for almost 16 years. (ok, sound like another urban legend). But even in practical terms why not make things better, why I should type Esc+a, just to start typing, and Esc+x to delete, when that delete key is right there in front of me. I know many geeks and vi editor lovers are already up in arms against me, but dude, no one is taking away your geeky things, but please evolve …
Thank god, MS understood and made better useable systems (I do understand the it was Apple which brought in the good looking GUI interface and tried to break the monopoly of IBM, but a PC with almost negligible applications available priced at 2500$ in 1984 was bit too much for common man, and then chain of wrong decisions simply ruined the company… )
Love it … hate it… but M$ is one company because of which you are able to do most of things that you currently do on your computer… (of-course apart from your geeky stuff)
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