I shared this 2 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30324595 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30324595 Long story short: Gates and Microsoft we

I shared this 2 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30324595 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30324595 Long story short: Gates and Microsoft were in domination mode and everybody else was in experimentation mode. Microsoft's management are par excellence opportunists. And if I recall correctly from watching one of the Bill's interviews from the 1990s, he even couldn't believe and wrap his head around why IBM didn't do the OS themselves and why the hell they decided to outsource it to Microsoft.