>>14618706I don't think Billy Boy was quite compromised at this point, shortly after 98's release the US department of justice started to really dick around his day over Internet Explorer, threatening to split up and essentially destroy his company in it's current state, media was portraying him as the literal devil and such, it was pretty obvious that he wasn't quite part of "their" crowd yet. Only to have the whole case pretty much thrown out a couple of months before Windows XP was released. Windows XP, of course being released shortly after 9/11, and also being the first Microsoft operating system WHERE THEY WERE CAUGHT INSTALLING UNIVERSAL BACKDOORS ON, NOT TO MENTION THEIR OWN BULLSHIT "PRODUCT ACTIVATION" SEEMS MIGHTY FUCKING SUSPICIOUS THEY DECIDE TO DO THIS NOW. Bill also had his entire public image immediately 180'd of course, as the "heart of gold" philanthropist, and is nowadays considered a real life superhero.
