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Not true at all. You're thinking the past 20 years instead of the past 35 years. Windows was already "the" OS around the world well before you could just pirate a copy online. They cut deals and made sure if you bought a pc it has windows on it. They made sure the countries you speak of had dirt cheap cd keys without piracy. Microsoft in the late 80s/90s had a lot of moving parts that went into making sure the only OS you'd be using was windows. Even after they got in trouble in 1992-94 and in 2000-2001.
Piracy or not. Windows was almost anyone's only choice.
Even though Linux is still somewhat popular in tech circles, consider that windows would have a significant market share for providing high value entertainment and a wide variety of tools to office workers. Microsoft Office is the dominant documentation and accounting suite for office workers around the world.
Now, combine that with the way that Microsoft has bundled their OS into many laptops and retail computers worldwide and you see why they're big.
Essentially anybody looking to do any paperwork related work will have to interact with Microsoft's system of software in one way or another. If Bill Gates was a deity, he'd probably fit right in with the god of tax collectors, taxing people for paperwork and bureaucracy.
The past 20 years is what's relevant for all countries apart from Japan, China and those in North America and Eastern Europe when it comes to PCs.
I don't think any cost above ₹200 (~ $2.5) would have been justifiable for an OS in third world countries in the '00s, and the "dirt cheap CD keys" were certainly more expensive than that anywhere.
I'm afraid you're simply making things up. Microsoft donated computers with windows to all the third world countries. Literally the only way any schools had PC's in third world countries was because Microsoft delivered them there, and any business' that got computers used windows because they had office use applications and it was the only OS that anyone had previous practice with using, because of the donated computers.
It's hilarious that you think Microsoft's charity is what brought computers to the third world. Do you even hear yourself?
Of course it has. Maybe try pulling your head out of your ass.
https://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/14/business/worldbusiness/IHT-charity-in-poor-nations-has-2-purposes-microsoft.html
Unbelievable. You genuinely think the rest of the world wouldn't have had computers had your god Microsoft not been so benevolent as to donate a few machines to a few schools for PR
Stay happy in your pathetic white saviours' world, I guess. There's no point discussing anything with you
I don't think they think it. I think they got computers slightly faster, because a large corporation drew on the resources its home country had stolen from those places to leverage a monopoly.
Oh shit. You're dumb AND racist. Lol. You poor fuck.