Kinds of feels like the good old days are back.

Remember when there were no big software companies?  Well, other than Microsoft?  I’m talking about the wild west of PC days, in the ‘80s, when you bought (or, frequently, copied from a friend) little applications developed by nobody you had ever heard of, which did only one thing, but it was exactly the one thing you expected that application to do.  Whenever there was some new innovation in computing, like say the mouse, (I’m talking about PCs here, bear with me) you couldn’t count on your main system, MS DOS, to support it, or deliver an update to you in a timely fashion.  You had to find the driver, and put it in AUTOEXEC.BAT or CONFIG.SYS¹ yourself.

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I am, generally, a liberal.  The relevance of this will become pertinent in a moment.

Microsoft, as you know unless insert-your-living-under-rock-cliché-here, has opened a couple of brick and mortar stores.  This is laughable for several reasons, most of which are plainly obvious even to Windows enthusiasts, but I’ll repeat them here for the sake of completeness.

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