| Mmmfishtacos said: Not a lot of it is known to the average person. Reading up on the history between him and Jobs will give some insight. What we do know is MS dos made Microsoft, which was bought from Xerox. Bill gate is a wonderful business man, but an innovator he isn't. Hell he didn’t even know how to interface the computer. IE mouse and keyboard till jobs showed it to him. And it also comes down to options; you’d be surprised how quickly MS windows would drop like a rock if there was any really completion outside of windows on PC. |
I know about Microsoft's history of embrace and extend, so no need to elaborate. Besides, it's steering the topic off-course. What I'm saying is that on the consumer front, Microsoft gave people what they wanted, and in the business world, that's what counted. Had they been arrogant towards consumers with MS-DOS at the time, then guess what, we probably wouldn't be using Windows right now...
