Microsoft Deserves Your Appreciation

1, Only if you squint
2. MS competed with whom, they effectively created the market.
3. Appears to be a tad missing.

Finally exactly what was the purpose of this post. How many of those who don't agree with your proposition will be persuaded by it, do you think?

[i]1. Change the way we use and interact with the computer (Changed the world)[/i]

How by effectively stealing Xerox's Graphic Interface and marketing it as their own development even though Apple had already beet them to the market with it?

[i]2. Provided the necessary competition needed to drive our t .[/i]

What Competition???

I have yet to see any M$ got held to IBM's Breast and nurtured to the stage that it's at now. Prior to IBM M$ had no OS never intended to have one and was a faltering company drunkenly lurching from month to month wondering if they had enough money to pay their staff next week.

IBM made the PC and by their actions M$ what it is today a Big Bureaucracy which is incapable of fast change and is constantly attempting to repaper it's products instead of introducing anything new.

[b]In other words IBM made Microsoft into another IBM.[/b] But at least now IBM accepts that there is no money in PC's so they have moved entirely to the Software Market and have released Innovative Products where as M$ has stuck with ever more complicated and convoluted code to make Windows the current disaster that it is and forcing the other OS providers to grow a product that is so much better.

Sorry but I missed the third thing which just isn't there. So what was it?

Col

Or am I just supposed to be "forever in their debt"? Like some other "higher power", perhaps?

I'll save my appreciation for individuals who do make a real positive difference in anything. I will, however, comment positively when I think MS has finally done a good job at something, or fixed a 20 year-old bug, or whatever. I don't think it is really appreciation, though.