RIP Windows Vista: arstechnica.com/information-te While some of its flaws were necessary growing pains, Vista stands as a reminder that once you've built the right kind of monopoly, you can force even a buggy, terrible first draft of a product on the vast majority of your customers, and they have no choice but to suffer until you fix it. And usually you can charge them for the upgrade.

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@jplebreton and that you can experiment on your customers and become a generally shady business as time goes on and everyone will continue to use your product (Windows 10)

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