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Microsoft's "mistakes" are part of what made it the unstoppable juggernaut it was through the 90s and into the 2000s. They are the same "mistakes" that have hel
by jacques_chester 11y ago
Microsoft's "mistakes" are part of what made it the unstoppable juggernaut it was through the 90s and into the 2000s. They are the same "mistakes" that have helped Apple to acquire the largest single stockpile of cash since Crassus.
People keep writing obituaries for Microsoft. Would that I could die in such a fashion. I would love to be the kind of failure that's netted tens of billions of dollars of profits per year for decades.
- tetraverse 11y ago'Microsoft's "mistakes" are part of what made it the unstoppable juggernaut' Microsoft's first mistake was when IBM signed a non-exclusive contract to supply the Operating System for the first IBM Personal computer. should have read the small print :) "Microsoft Litigation" http://www.groklaw.net/staticpages/index.php?page=2005010107100653 http://www.groklaw.net/staticpages/index.php?page=2005010107...