Comment on Microsoft suddenly kills its movies and TV store on Xbox and Windows

• Rekorse@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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  • Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    MacOS, NextOS, BeOS, OS/2 and Solaris were all pre installed on end user devices. All except MacOS also were or became available as end user installs if you didn’t want to buy it pre installed.

    They weren’t popular in workplaces ( except MacOS) because they all sucked in important ways compared to Windows.

    There were also many alternative Office suites. MS didn’t even invent the idea- they copied Borland’s $99 software cost in order to compete. But again the alternatives, even if they started better, eventually fell behind Microsoft. MS was extraordinarily customer focused in those days.

    Windows Powertoy apps used to come with the emails of the person who wrote it in the readme.txt. I once emailed the Microsoft developer about a feature that I thought should work but didn’t ( copying across network vs local copy). I got a working beta version 3 days after emailing the developer at Microsoft.

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    • Rekorse@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Interesting, thank you for sharing. I’ll have to read more about how things changed over time.

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