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Bill Gates with Microsoft. At its peak Windows was running on 90% of computers and the biggest rival Apple (Steve Jobs) was taking money from Microsoft (Bill G
by awa 12y ago
Bill Gates with Microsoft.
At its peak Windows was running on 90% of computers and the biggest rival Apple (Steve Jobs) was taking money from Microsoft (Bill G) to survive.
Bill was able to leverage almost all other software companies to create software for Windows to create a lock in fro the customers.
- scholia 12y agoWindows is still running on more than 90% of the world's PCs. It provided an openly-licensed standard that enabled hundreds of thousands of companies to enter the hardware and software business -- and some of them became rich. It also delivered huge benefits to the companies that freely adopted Windows to benefit from the massive ecosystem it produced. It's hard to see how many people suffered who didn't fail thanks mainly to their own mistakes. I'd put DR, IBM (Lotus), Novell and Netscape in that group.
- RebSmith 12y agoCorrect! And if I say that Amazon is doing the same then I think we will have to agree to that! Don't we!?
- philwelch 12y agoMicrosoft's $150MM investment in Apple wasn't necessary for Apple to survive. The commitment it signaled (plus the promise to keep making Office for Mac) might have been, but the money wasn't. > The day before the announcement Apple had a market cap of $2.46 billion,[58] and had ended its previous quarter with quarterly revenues of US$1.7 billion and cash reserves of US$1.2 billion,[59] making the US$150 million amount of the investment largely symbolic. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Apple_Inc.#1996:_Return_of_Steve_Jobs http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Apple_Inc.#1996:_Ret...