[Snuupy]

It's very telling any time a service or provider doesn't openly support adversarial interoperability that it's taking advantage of you, the consumer. If a company knew its products were better than its competitors, it wouldn't need to rely on these types of anti-consumer behaviors.

[wslh]

> If a company knew its products were better than its competitors, it wouldn't need to rely on these types of anti-consumer behaviors.

I don't think it is a matter of better or worse products, I think it is more related to power and how you apply it.

What was really great about the Microsoft platform (since DOS [1]!) is that they accepted all kind of hackish stuff there. At the end they were winning because you can integrate almost everything into Microsoft ecosystem, even hooking/instrumenting the kernel! This implies more audience.

That enabled anyone to embrace the platform. Things are different now for many reasons (you cannot hook SaaS and there are all kind of security protections at the kernel and user level) but it is interesting that Microsoft embraced the developers, developers, developers! mantra. This is not a pro-Microsoft rant it is just an story that seems unnatural in 2023 where Apple and Google are at one point making worse things that shipping a new browser (Internet Explorer) in an antritrust way.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOS