dave holbon
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This company has gone from a “garage based” operation to one of the largest corporations in the word in near record time.
Go her for a brief history: -
http://www.microsoft.com/msft/download/keyevents.doc
What’s not mentioned here is that the original version of dos was purchased from another company and modified. Also that the king of the operating systems at the time were killed stone dead by IBM’s decision to use “msdos” as the bundled system with their personal PC’s, which they thought would not sell very well.
Can this can happen again?
Go her for a brief history: -
http://www.microsoft.com/msft/download/keyevents.doc
What’s not mentioned here is that the original version of dos was purchased from another company and modified. Also that the king of the operating systems at the time were killed stone dead by IBM’s decision to use “msdos” as the bundled system with their personal PC’s, which they thought would not sell very well.
Can this can happen again?