Windows’ Hidden Self Destruct Code | Nostalgia Nerd

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[Nostalgianerd]

I realise I've been wearing the same T-Shirt for the past three videos. I call it efficiency.

[peterhumphreys]

I remember when Apple criticised Microsoft for being a very big and very rich company which locked its users in, forcing them to work in a certain way.

[volvo]

It's a good thing we are in the future and absolutely none of these shenanigans go on between corporations these days (SMILEY FACE)

[hotpaws_maths_and_science]

"your code should be perfect or you are in trouble"

ah yes a friendly corporate culture where every employee feels like a family

[warmachineuk]

I remember this. This is one of the reasons people hate Microsoft. They didn't want to win by building a better mousetrap, they wanted to destroy rival mousetraps. Once there are no rivals, they lose interest. Consider how Internet Explorer stagnated when Netscape Navigator died.

[nathanaelculver]

Having worked for Microsoft tech support at this time I can confirm that we were instructed to inform any customer calling in to report the error that MS could not guarantee the compatibility of Windows with any other OS, and to helpfully offer to assist the customer to install MS-DOS.

I was later deposed by Caldera’s lawyers once the lawsuit was under way.

[KalamShellaby]

I do love it when I receive a work E-mail saying "we should crash the computer" as a guy who worked at Microsoft for a bit, I received those emails twice a day.

[nickwallette]

“This new DOS has new and innovative features that could threaten our position in the market. We need to bring our products to feature-parity, and then add something of value to sweeten the deal.”

“Hm, sounds like a lot of work. Is there another way?”

“We could add some obfuscated code to check for arbitrary differences in implementation, and then cripple our products when such differences are detected.”

“The second one.”

[JoeCensored]

At the time of DR-DOS, everyone I knew pronounced it "Doctor DOS". Interesting to find out that was wrong after all this time.

[seankkg]

"Their initial response was to try and purchase Novell, but to no avail." I don't know if you meant to do it but I like the subtle wordplay.

[Cyberfoxxy]

What surprised me was the employees at Microsoft were in on it. Shows what kind of culture the company had. Top to bottom.
With tons of lawsuits. Settling out of court or assimilation. Microsoft got away with it

Every. Single. Time.

[BG_Dave]

Underhanded corporate tactics you say?
*Intel writes the manual*
Nvidia: Quick make a copy
Apple: Pretty picture book

[sylviaelse]

I'd almost forgotten why I thought Microsoft was evil. Thank you for the reminder.

[Kumimono]

Curious, how people assumed the issue was in DR Dos, not *beta* Windows.

[bitterlemonboy]

Someone : *makes better product than microsoft*
Microsoft: wait, that's illegal

[ugcheleuce]

This reminds me of the deliberate CSS bug that Microsoft planted on their web sites that would cause web sites to shift off-screen if a rival browser was detected. This was when CSS layouts just became a thing. So, browsers that supported CSS properly would end up not properly displaying Microsoft's web pages (or rather: properly displaying it, but in the way that Microsoft wanted, i.e. off-screen).

[Tall_Order]

Microsoft doing sneaky underhanded tactics? Say it isn't so!!!! lol
One of my friends is a XBox fanboy and he hates it when I talk trash about MS.
I think its in everyones best interest to never be a brand loyalist to any corporation. They don't care.

[dcc]

Thanks for reminding me how disgusting Microsoft really is. I remember living through this nonsense and, as a systems engineer, this whole era was a huge pain in the neck (and some other R-rated places). And just because Microsoft appears to be adopting Linux, don't think for one moment they haven't stopped trying to be the all dominant beast they want to be.

[sirloin]

remember kids: you can do any crime, as long as you're rich enough!

[rougenaxela]

Hot take: Private settlements to antitrust cases, usually end up throwing the public interest under the bus.