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No. Microsoft had more than just MS DOS, ex. MS Word for DOS, which competed head-to-head against Wordperfect. You forget that the PC craze was well on its wa
by pfarnsworth 10y ago
No. Microsoft had more than just MS DOS, ex. MS Word for DOS, which competed head-to-head against Wordperfect. You forget that the PC craze was well on its way by 1989, and Microsoft had their IPO 3 years previous, so obviously Bill Gates was known by many at that point because he was already a billionaire, and very young.
Sure, Bill Gates was even more famous later on, and Microsoft was even more of a dominating factor in the 90s, but he wasn't chump change in 1989 in the least.