People misunderstand Microsoft. They look at how it dominates both home and business computing, and so naturally they assume that it must be equally competent a

People misunderstand Microsoft. They look at how it dominates both home and business computing, and so naturally they assume that it must be equally competent at both. Now it is true that, from the beginning MS has been brilliant at figuring out how to make software useful to businesses. However, when it comes to home users, that is not at all the case. What happened was when home computers started to take off, they were new and so potential users had no idea which of the many brands that were available were really good. But then IBM came along and got into home computing and it had this reputation of being the king of computing, so everyone just assumed its home computer was best. and in addition people who had learned to use a PC at work decided to buy a similar computer for home use. And so the PC became the overwhelming choice and dragged MS along with it, even though DOS and the PC architecture were quite inferior to some of the other choices. And then the GUI was invented by Apple, which is truly expert at making computing easy for ordinary people. But then the smart phone came along, and MS stumbled there, so now MS has intelligently decided to focus on its real strength, business computing.