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> Only Microsoft realised the hardware didn't matter, software was the main game. Yes. This was one of Bill Gates' many strokes of genius. After just one year
by laureny 13y ago
> Only Microsoft realised the hardware didn't matter, software was the main game.
Yes. This was one of Bill Gates' many strokes of genius. After just one year of Traf'o'Data (Microsoft's precursor), Gates saw that the future was in software, not hardware, and he created Microsoft centered around this very vision (while Apple bet the farm on hardware).
- ams6110 13y agoApple tried allowing cloners to copy the hardware and being software for a while, it nearly killed them. I don't recall if the clones were ever price-competitve with x86 clones though.
- nl 13y agoTO be fair, almost everything Apple did at that time "almost killed them". The clones did expand the Mac market, but Apple was so incompetent at that point that it didn't know how to handle that.