"world's most reviled software"
Right, yeah, people hated Microsoft's software so much that they bought it by the bucket load.
Also that comment about midway being problematic. Why is it problematic!? Did WW2 not happen? Who'd actually be offended?
Right, yeah, people hated Microsoft's software so much that they bought it by the bucket load.
Also that comment about midway being problematic. Why is it problematic!? Did WW2 not happen? Who'd actually be offended?
It's the shopping channel of software. Whether or not you wanted it it comes bundled.
I'm pretty sure it'd be a lot less popular if every OEM had a check box that said Ubuntu that deducted the license fee. MS frowns upon that sort of thing, though.
https://www.onmsft.com/news/windows-10-9-remains-free-oems-a...
It compares the "battle" between Sony and Microsoft to an actual war in which a lot of people died. It also sets up the XBox as some sort of patriotic push to defeat the agressors that attacked us without warning.
I'd be offended if I was working for the PS2 division at Sony at the time, I think. I also think I'd be offended if I was working on games for the XBox - it's entertainment, not war!
These are companies that trivialize violence with games in the first place. I doubt you would be working for them if a war analogy offended you.
In my corner of the 3rd world and the countries around it many people have computers but almost nobody pays for software.