Ironically, the head of the CS department at my University used to say: "unfortunately, positioning is more important than knowledge". This means that Microsof

Ironically, the head of the CS department at my University used to say: "unfortunately, positioning is more important than knowledge". This means that Microsoft would probably not have happened if Bill Gates' mother hadn't been connected to IBM's chairman at the moment. Microsoft didn't even write the first DOS they sold to IBM!