The war of formats, or why I defended Billy.

    Here we had a kitchen dispute a while ago with a friend regarding the world order, the dominance of states, hegemony and the like of terms and phenomena.
    In general, the conversation smoothly touched on the topic of inform. technology.

    I will not load details, in general, my point of view is as follows: It is good that there is a melkosoft and its world domination.
    More than half of people who have a computer at home have Windows.
    If not more.
    The main merit of MS and Gates is that at the dawn of the development of both computer technologies in general and the Internet in particular, he was able to create a practically monopoly in the field of software. This freed the world from computer multilateralism and enabled high-tech science to develop quietly.
    This is akin to the history of ancient China, when the first emperor united the whole country under his power, and China was able to develop very well, becoming one of the most highly developed powers.
    Fragmentation does not lead to anything good.
    Imagine a situation where each company pushes its software to the market, while no standards have yet been developed. For example, the JPG image format is the standard that many people know. Suppose each company begins to rivet its own formats and standards.
    Even now. There was a DVD, now it’s not clear who is what: Blue Ray, High definition Disk.
    To develop, any science needs standards, axioms, if you want. It’s like in mathematics, two parallel lines do not intersect. Throughout the world, 1 mm is equal to 1 mm - this is the standard. Also around the world, a txt document is a txt document. If there wasn’t a monopoly of such an MS, it is not known what the software market would be, where many companies are promoting their standards, striving for profit.
    MS killed competition? Not. Thanks to such a strong player as MS, other companies had to weaken and occupy (develop) their niche more weakly. For example, Apple, which is still preferred by graphics professionals.
    MS helped in many ways lay the foundations of standardization.
    What is one XML worth?

    PS I do not work for MS.
    PPS Please relate to written objectively.

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