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[-] judgyweevil@feddit.it 2 points 6 days ago

Clippy is a symbol of a decent company, pre-enshittification

[-] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 30 points 6 days ago

Lol. As if. MS has been predatory and nasty during all its existence. Even during the MS DOS days, it pulled some incredibly shady stuff against DR DOS, and it's only gotten worse since then.

[-] klangcola@reddthat.com 14 points 6 days ago

What timeline is this? xD If anything, Microsoft is less hostile these days than they were in the 90s and early 2000s

[-] judgyweevil@feddit.it 2 points 6 days ago

I'm just talking about the quality of the product, not their shady business practices. By the way, it's easy for them to appear less hostile now that they almost have the monopoly on pc and office apps

[-] infinitesunrise@slrpnk.net 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Kids these days don't know about the Microsoft anti-monopoly suit sagas, or how the world felt about Bill Gates before he spent several decades and millions of dollars scrubbing his PR. They've always been awful and generally reviled, from the start.

Never read the Halloween Documents, have you?

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