People will argue that it's not dead yet but they're barely top 100 in the world, when they used to be... Number one. Ouch. Now, people are going to argue aga

People will argue that it's not dead yet but they're barely top 100 in the world, when they used to be... Number one. Ouch. Now, people are going to argue again but IBM, in its dying breath in 2000, did something really amazing: they committed one billion dollar to finance the development of that little known thing in the world called... Linux. Maybe Linux would have been immensely successful even without that one billion dollar investment from IBM but I cannot help but see that move in 2000 as the ultimate revenge move against Microsoft. IBM knew it was falling into irrelevancy, Microsoft had 95%+ browsers market share and the future looked grim. Apple was in bad shape, smartphones didn't exist yet. It looked like Microsoft would conquer everything else. Turns out: Microsoft (sadly) mostly kept the desktop but, thankfully, it's Linux that conquered just about everything (and OS X / MacOS / iOS quite a bit too). So big thanks to IBM for that move. You can think what you want but to me this what a move to prevent Microsoft from owning the entire software world.