What Would It Look Like If Microsoft Wasn't Started?

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    What Would It Look Like If Microsoft Wasn't Started? I think it would suck big time. Microsoft lead the way to present online's existence.
     
    glasshoper, Nov 28, 2007 IP
  2. BaddWarrior

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    Man that would sure Be wierd. I have never thought about that till just now. Wow.
     
    BaddWarrior, Nov 29, 2007 IP
  3. Cameron [NetXHosting]

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    It would certainly be interesting, We would all be running linux, And probably not have the kind of tech we have now...
     
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  4. InFloW

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    Well another company would have taken it's place most likely to fill the gab that would be gone.

    But if that was to not happen then there would be no variations in hardware (everyone would run pretty much the same thing) and compatibility issues would be far worse now compared to switching windows versions.

    Microsoft and well Windows made the necessity for other operating systems to also support varying pieces of hardware and make things more user friendly in order to compete. If windows was not there then obviously be no reason to have drivers for all 1000 video cards there are for example.
     
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    Someone else would have done it, at a different time.
     
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  6. nickstan

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    well people would be cursing another company about being attack by a virus or their system got hang while playing a game or Mac would claim in its advertisement that it can't virus proof!

    I don't know, but it's kind of hard to imagine the world without Microsoft.
     
    nickstan, Nov 30, 2007 IP
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    Now you come to think about it... I don't really know. Not sure if Linux might not even be around if Microsoft wasn't around. Linux was probably created to prove that there is such a thing as open source. If Linux was here then I think they'd rule the business.
     
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  8. InFloW

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    I don't think it had anything to do with open source at all. GNU was already around at that time and was open source. Linux was I believe made because Minix (open source as well but restricted) did not support 32bit and 386 systems were getting cheap.
     
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    Well bill gates bought out diffrent peoples ideas so god knows! would b diffent a world if linux or soemthing lol
     
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  10. shaila

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    We all know that Microsoft is the leader of software products and the company does not exist I think there is other software company that will lead like Apple, Linux , Lotus and other software company.

     
    shaila, Dec 3, 2007 IP
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    It would be great. No copy-cats.
     
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    If Microsoft hadn't existed, many things in this world would have been totally different. Millions of people might be working as milkmen instead of software programmers.
     
    brandnewx, Dec 3, 2007 IP
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    Microsoft have done some big things, I mean their products are brilliant, but with such a stature and market share, people always expect better (it is the way the world works). Windows is a brilliant OS, they just need a couple of service packs before Vista is OK that's all. Apart from that they are a successful company, who have helped other companies expand their productivity. Plus, Bill Gates does A LOT of charity work.

    I think it would be bad. Google wouldn't be in the position they are in today, part of Google's success is from the two companies competing in online products etc.
     
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    wow

    Apple would have been the king in todays s world
    as MS got on top by copying apple prototype

    no DLL shit
    no BSOD ,
    No paying for shitty crappy products
    less piracy (not sure of it )

    wow , amazed by the life it would have provided
     
    lalitnagrath, Dec 3, 2007 IP
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    We were all using mac now:p
     
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    I am sorry, i dont know much about computer things. How is Microsoft and MAC related? i feel dumb now :p
     
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    They aren't. Apple was first. So if microsoft wouldn't exist we probably were all using mac right now OR, and this is the realistic way, another company would of done something similar to windows or another stand alone OS. Either way one or another would of been really popular.
     
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    If there was no microsoft i'd never get a computer again then. Because the only company would be macs and those apple things. Which are kinda ewish when you use em. I dunno if anyone still uses them XD.
     
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    It would be heaven on earth.
     
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    apple would have dominated the market or IBM
     
    conceptsti, Dec 5, 2007 IP