Since this is the ancient weeb PC game thread, I should remind everyone that doesn't know about TRON to research it if you ever want another reason to hate Microsoft to death.
>[1984] TRON (The Real-time Operating Nucleus) is birthed in a lab at Tokyo U. It's an RTOS, has an open architecture that allows you to twist it into pretty much anything you want (seriously; the kernel doesn't even have any source code, just documentation and guidelines for writing your own kernel - which allowed companies to tailor the entire damn OS to whatever hardware they had instead of the other way around, ideal for embedded chips), a tiny footprint and response times that can be brought down to microseconds
>[1985] Many companies start adopting their own flavors of TRON for industrial and commercial use and the first BTRON (Business TRON; the PC fork) PCs start coming out
>[1989] The government of Japan is unhappy with being Microsoft's bitch, so they give Matsushita [Panasonic] a contract to eventually replace all of their Microsoft PCs in schools with their shiny new PanaCAL ET BTRON PCs
>The PanaCAL ET, in 1989, had a RTOS, could display moving color video in a separate window and had dual-boot compatibility with MS-DOS despite having a 7 year-old Intel chip and 2MB of RAM while MS-DOS computers using the exact same chip at higher clock speeds and with 4MB of RAM couldn't even run more than one application at once - it essentially blew everything Microsoft had the fuck out
>[1989] Adoption of TRON personal computers is killed by a US Trade Representative (working under the (((witch))) who later negotiated NAFTA for the US) who said that said adoption constituted "potential and actual market intervention" and threatened Japan with economic sanctions if they didn't immediately and unconditionally abandon their plans to switch their school computers to BTRON
>Virtually every single Japanese company with any investment in BTRON NOPEs the fuck out immediately because they live and die by exports to the US and BTRON dies ignominiously overnight
>At the time of the threat, said trade representative had been offered a position as Microsoft's "director for government affairs" in Asia (based in Tokyo, of course), which he took after killing BTRON and bringing those pesky orientals back under Bill Gates' loving thumb
>He's still working for Microsoft to this fucking day
And that, my children, is the story of how Microsoft threatened to break Japan's legs if they stopped paying their protection money and the reason that the most promising advancement in personal computing since the GUI hasn't seen the light of day for 28 of its 33 years of existence.