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Microsoft thought of the children and decided to ban some browsers

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because Windows is wonderful, object-oriented, more modern in design than all these Unix-derived OSs and that drive letters aren't in the least clunky.

...which they ripped off CP/M anyway, an operating system that was released in 1973. It seems that the business world seems determined to cock the world up one way or another, all for the sake of familiarity and a fast buck.

CP/M didn't have windows. Nor subdirectories IIRC. I think the business world wanted software to get the job done. Basic, easy-to-use accounting and payroll software on Linux? Dream on... I bet you'd be the first to complain if your employer moved to Linux and told you you couldn't be paid for several months while they re-instituted manual accounting and payroll because the computers could no longer manage such things.

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