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+\documentclass[11pt]{article}
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+\title{Why I Stopped Using Microsoft Windows}
+\author{Aidan Sharpe}
+\usepackage{marginnote}
+\reversemarginpar
+
+\begin{document}
+\maketitle
+
+This is a personal story: a story of corruption, surveillance, deception, and greed. This is 
+how one man monopolized operating systems.
+\\
+\\
+The word computer used to describe an occupation. People, often women, were tasked with 
+crunching numbers by hand. It was a slow and tedious job, but a very important one. Yet, 
+computing goes back much further than this.
+\\
+\\
+Our tale begins in ancient Babylon. Put yourself in the shoes of a grain merchant. 
+The year is 1700 BC, and you are busy keeping track of trades and calculating how much 
+customers owe. It is a challenging task at first look, but you have an abacus. Simply by 
+sliding beads, addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division can be done with relative 
+ease.
+\\
+\\
+For hundreds of years, this was the extent of personal computing -- nothing but sliding beads. 
+Progress was slow. The first analog computers were used for tracking astronomical events 
+like predicting eclipses, and navigation by stars. The first general purpose computer was 
+invented by Charles Babbage in 1833. It was the first device that resembled modern processors 
+in function, and over the coming century, the computing industry would explode in complexity.
+\\
+\\
+\marginnote{Pause for intensity.} Bill Gates was born on October 28th, 1955. His childhood was
+filled with success (\textit{pause}) and computers. In 1973, Gates attended Harvard, but his
+passion for writing computer software took over his life. He dropped out after two years to
+move to Albuquerque, New Mexico at a company called MITS -- the company behind the first ever
+personal computer. He was inspired by MITS to make his own company. Short for microcomputer 
+software, he called it Micro-Soft. Yes, it was originally hyphenated.
+\\
+\\
+Micro-Soft was an instant success. Their first product, a form of the once popular programming
+language, BASIC, was a huge hit for hobbyists around the country. In 1981, Microsoft released
+MS-DOS. A primitive operating system that functioned similarly to the command prompt found
+in modern Windows. The first version of Windows hit the shelves in 1985 and functioned as a
+graphical overlay for the strictly text-based DOS platform.
+\\
+\\
+At this point in time, Windows was fairly bare bones. It had a file explorer, a notepad, a 
+calculator, and a clock. The mid 1990s saw the first wave of internet popularity, 
+and early web browsers like Netscape Navigator and Opera saw much success during this period. 
+\\
+\\
+Things started to change when the now defunct Internet Explorer was included as a default
+application. Since software had to be purchased at brick-and-mortar retail stores and installed on
+three-and-a-half inch floppy diskettes, default apps were given a major advantage. This 
+change caught the attention of antitrust lawyers.
+\\
+\\
+\marginnote{Very noticeable pause} Recall the first thing I said, "This is a \textit{personal} speech."
+So far, this has been nothing but other peoples' stories. So, where do \textit{I} come into this?
+Well, (\textit{pause}) it is a little more than just me. Here is where \textit{we} come into it.
+\\
+\\
+I am willing to bet that at least 90\% of you are running Microsoft Windows. For those who are,
+the next minute or so is dedicated to \textit{aaaaall} you. While I'm talking I'd like all of
+the Windows users to, and please try to do it \textit{silently}, boot up you laptop.
+\\
+\\
+While logging in, some of you, and everyone using Windows 11, will be logging into a Microsoft
+account. In newer versions of Windows,  the Microsoft account has nearly replaced the local
+user.
+\\
+\\
+Back to the antitrust suits. What the heck were they about? Well, and I'm going to spoil it,
+Microsoft won. They got away with being able to bundle software into their operating system.
+Now that all of you are logged into Windows, take a look at the \textit{Start} menu. Look at
+all of those programs that you didn't install. Candy Crush? Bubble Witch? TikTok? 
+\marginnote{Sound absurdly confused} What are those \textit{do-ing} there???
+\\
+\\
+Bloat! Bloat, bloat, bloat. It's all bloat, folks. And it's \textit{NOT} at all necessary.
+Now, some of these programs are useful. Some. Some of them take up space. And some of them,
+usually the more well-hidden ones, are actually \textit{harmful}.
+\\
+\\
+This was a problem almost 30 years ago, and it's still a problem today. 
+
+
+\end{document}