Comment on Microsoft suddenly kills its movies and TV store on Xbox and Windows
Rekorse@sh.itjust.works 10 months agoMicrosoft isn’t popular by choice. They can’t force people into shitty ecosystems if they have no reason to choose it to begin with. Microsoft was the only choice for decades, and will go down as the golden example of business monopoly.
Apple, amazon, google, all have their claws deeper in people because they make products people choose to use. They actually like the products, so the companies can slowly enshittify them and keep their users.
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 10 months ago
They’re just a few years behind Microsoft. At one time, people chose Microsoft just like people chose Google.
Rekorse@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
What was the other choice back then? I dont recall microsoft ever needing to compete for end users. Even now they barely have to put in an effort and are the most popular OS.
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Linux, MacOS, BeOs, NeXTOS, OS/2, FreeBSD, Solaris.
There were more choices than today.
Rekorse@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Those were pre-installed on end user devices and were popular in workplaces? If you have any material to share I could read about that time period that would be helpful as well.