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That is because Nintendo's evilness is a drop of squid ink that can be easily seen before it dissipates into the vastness of the water.

Microsoft's evilness is the ocean that you swim in. You do not see it because it just looks like The Way Things Have Always Been to you.

The entire PC ecosystem—indeed, the entire tech world—is worse because of Microsoft's monopolistic behavior in the 1990s. We are still stuck with, at best, a desktop platform triopoly (is that a word?), and the big "Microsoft vs Apple" paradigm contributed greatly, I would argue, to the mindset that led to us having a mobile OS duopoly today.

If not for Microsoft actively, aggressively, and, above all, illegally throwing their weight around in the 1990s to make sure they were the only option for most people, we could very easily have had a half-dozen different OSes with open standards governing interoperability between them.





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