Call Here : +(1877)-514-1396 For the same reason Adobe will not ever pursue personal users of pirated copies of Photoshop. Software piracy is likely the biggest singular reason behind Photoshop being synonymous with ‘photo editing’. Everyone I knew growing up had a copy of Photoshop and none of them paid for it, but years later a dozen of them work professionally at design and ad agencies on business licenses.
Adobe is the market leader because piracy allowed them to gain access to literally every single design-oriented teen’s PC.
Microsoft might not have deliberately used piracy to become the dominant OS, but it absolutely helped them.
Easy piracy of Windows prevented Linux or Mac from becoming major players (for a while).
Microsoft gained market penetration into much of the +(1877)-514-1396 developing world in the 90s and 00s by way of piracy.
Windows won the platform wars early because they supported more software. They had more software because they had more users. Piracy increased the user base early on.
In the early days, a much more significant portion of computer users were technically savvy, so piracy was virtually unavoidable in the 90s.
What if they decided to end Windows piracy in 1995?
Millions (billions?) of people would not have grown up with Windows and instead grew up using some flavor of Linux.
The poorest 90% of humans would be using Firefox, LibreOffice, and GIMP as their default software and not Internet Explorer, Microsoft Office, or Adobe Photoshop.
Microsoft’s ecosystem of software would have been much smaller, so many corporate systems today would be upgrading their legacy systems from old Ubuntu LTS 12 to LTS 16 instead of Windows 7 to 10.
But now, just like with Adobe, every machine cobbled together by a preteen with a school computer lab has been running Windows since before the dot com bubble. It is nearly synonymous with computer.