Microsoft's products have always been just good/cheap enough to gain enough market share to squeeze out others

ReptileMan 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Excel and Visual Studio, .NET Runtime and C#, Windows 2000 were among the best things for their time. I think there were like 2-3 months in which even internet explorer was the best browser on the market

	▲	tscherno 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		My operating system teacher was a hardcore Linux zealot and "M$" hater. But one day he praised Microsoft for Active Directory and group policies. Comparable, well integrated easy to use solutions didn't exist at the time. (mid 2000s). Batch scripts were lame though...

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wartywhoa23 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

They also seem to turn a totally blind eye towards the piracy of their OSes for the same reason.