TheBigFatJ said:
Fei-Hung said:
Not long ago (about 13 years), I was a student and we heard of this new product called Windows that was going to revolutionise the way we use PC's. A few years later it became the biggest thing since slice bread. It was almost a blasphemy to own a PC which did not run with Windows. Year after year, every kept looking forward to the next Windows software package whether it was required or not. The world was given a blessing- Microsoft!
Fast forward 13 years into the future as I look back at Microsoft; where they stand now compared to where they stood then, it is not the same picture nor is it the same company. It seems the giant is being attacked by several smaller species and at every turn there is someone taking a chunk off.
My Opinion on why Microsoft became successful
To me, it is all very straight forward. Whilst PC's were a great machine to own, until Microsoft came along, they were not user friendly to the majority of the users. Microsoft allowed people to easily access PC's to do regular work as well as more complex. It allowed people who were new to the PC to find a friendly start whilst those who were professionals, it allowed them to build on their skills. Microsoft was fresh, it was creative and innovative! It was so good in fact; that the money which came pouring in, made Bill Gates, founder of MS the richest man on earth at the time and made the company so powerful, the government had to step in and split the company into three.
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You don't know the first thing about MS history, do you? First of all, Windows is closer to 30 years old than 13 years old. Secondly, Microsoft stole all of the ideas from Apple. Apple stole the ideas from Xerox. Microsoft even swindled their first big product (DoS) from some poor family man who wrote it. MS sold DoS for millions through a licensing deal with IBM and bought DoS from some poor sap for $50K.
The difference between Apple and Microsoft back then is approximately the same as it is today: Quality. Microsoft had a shitty product (Windows) and Apple had a high quality product.
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The difference is their chosen business model. While Apple is making premium on every product sold on (comparatively) niche market, M$ runs its OS as an industry standard, with smaller profit per unit sold.
