all of those companies could also be said to have killed themselves either by making crappy products or not reading the direction of the industry. Lotus notes:

all of those companies could also be said to have killed themselves either by making crappy products or not reading the direction of the industry. Lotus notes: some good ideas but horrible outdated app wordperfect/wordstar: not even close to matching MS Word's feature or ease of use Novell: what did they make other than networking that ended up being a standard part of all machines and all OSes, not just windows Lotus 123/Visicalc: did Visicalc ever make it out of text mode? Excel beat those be being a better product. Borland: also got out competed. Their only product that didn't suck was they're dev products but they couldn't keep up with Visual Studio. They had one database product that took them year to try to update to be competitive and lost their market by taking too long. None of that has anything to do with "wrath" of MS.