The Notorious Moguls
Every now and then I see a lot of criticism being thrown on the kingpin of the computer world, Microsoft and its founder Bill Gates.
How could a company, which has made our lives cushy and comfy like heaven, end up in getting nothing but severe censure?
How can everyone blindly ignore its undisputed contribution in the field of software and operating systems?
Why don’t they stop using its products if they don’t like it?
Friends, we all know that 90% of the world’s PCs have Microsoft windows installed on them yet more than 85% criticize it.
In my first contribution to this blog, I would like to lift the veil and try to remove the blot on Microsoft’s image.
They say that there are many bugs in windows…
I agree friends that there are many bugs in windows. But think about it pragmatically for a second, windows is nothing but a stream of 25000 lines of code. Try writing a computer program of just 1000 lines then we will talk about bugs.
They say that Google is cool but Microsoft is Destructive…..
Wait wait wait!!! ‘Destructive’??? Well there is a dilemma in the word itself.
Yes!! Microsoft is destructive because it gives a cut-throat competition to all the biggies. Microsoft does enter late but when it enters, it sabotages and jeopardizes your complete effort in making a particular product. When Microsoft entered operating system business, it annihilated Macintosh. When it entered browser business, it was a turn of Netscape Navigator. And now it has entered search business 
. Yeah yeah, I can see lots of boos coming my way. But who knows. An insider of Silicon Valley once said, “Where there is Microsoft, there will be blood”.
They say that Microsoft does not give source code with its products…..
My Vampiric mind wakes up every time I hear this from someone. Are we f**king so cheap that we want anything and everything for free? Can’t we spend few bucks buying one original software, an operating system for god sake? Do they ever say that they are some kind of non-profit oraganization? Its their business model that they want to make things easy for all of us with their products. How would one earn in the software world, if he starts giving away the code. Ok ok, yeah I know there is Linux. But how many of us are interested in manually mounting everything. Quality comes at some price friends.
They say that Microsoft wants to establish monopoly…..
Well who doesn’t? Don’t you think Google is moving on the same track?
Search, Online advertisement, Browser and now operating system and targeting the whole cloud computing. Aren’t we overly naïve about Google? My point here is not to criticize Google but all I am saying is that Microsoft does not want to establish monopoly friends. They are keeping everyone on his/her toes if you look at it from a different angle. They are not letting any uncompetitive players stay in the business.
I am neither a die-hard fan of Microsoft nor its critic. But I think we should be rewarding rather than reviling.
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“The Notorious Moguls”