Microsoft actuallly were a classic snowball in their first few years with MS BASIC. Then, in 1981, they took the snowball and threw it smack dab into that huge

Microsoft actuallly were a classic snowball in their first few years with MS BASIC. Then, in 1981, they took the snowball and threw it smack dab into that huge towering snow slab they had noticed called the IBM PC, causing an avalanche of hitherto unknown proportions...the rest is history. :)