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As I understand it, Microsoft's success is largely because they poached an operating system contract. Basically the CEO of their competition was on a two-week v
by not_real_acct 8y ago
As I understand it, Microsoft's success is largely because they poached an operating system contract. Basically the CEO of their competition was on a two-week vacation and there was no way to get in contact with him. So the contract went to Microsoft by default. Then Microsoft purchased an existing operating system and hacked it for their client. And the rest is history.