So what did Bill Gates do that was so right? No other company has topped such an strangehold on the desktop market as Windows did.
So what did Bill Gates do that was so right...
Jace Cook
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Luis Lopez
He managed to get a contract for making the OS for the largest desktop PC manufacturer in the world.
He then managed to get the contract not to specify exclusivity (lol)
Oliver Gomez
scammed people and used illegal anti-competitive business practices
Matthew Anderson
He partnered with MORE then just one manufacturer.
Back in the day, every one was trying to get in to IBM's or Digital's pants, MS didn't give a fuck, they would partner with anyone and even would let other rebrand their OS (IBM-DOS).
Because of this, MS-DOS and thus Win 3.0 spread like wildfire until it wasn't a "PC" till it was compatible with MS software.
Jordan Harris
He did exactly what Apple did but instead of locking down their software on overpriced inferior hardware, he licensed it out to anyone that wanted to pay a fee.
Nolan Rivera
He installed gentoo
Ryder Ross
Based.
Gabriel Lopez
Without Bill Gates and his dumb fucking charity sending all those vaccies to Africa it wouldnt be so opverpopulated
Liam Lee
He also blackmailed the PC makers by threatening to remove their discounts if they didn't do what MS wanted. With no discount they couldn't be competitive.
The modern PC is a compromise of the cheapest hardware that will appear to do the job.
Kayden Hill
Give the guy a break.
He's just trying to buy redemption. It's not as easy as you'd think. Not with his past.
Jeremiah Turner
He backstabbed ibm over and over and over until he got rich af.
Carter King
He was just in the right place at the right time, which gave him an overwhelming headstart in a brand new industry.
Zachary Smith
It's his wife that's making him do it and everyone knows it. The dude is cucked.
Luke Butler
This
Jobs broke into Xerox house and stole the TV for his own use
Gates went in after and stole anything not nailed down and pawned it, so every nigger in the neighbourhood got something from ole billy
Henry Carter
No
Zachary Taylor
Billy build the lobby group that brought software copyright into fruition cause he realised only by limiting access rights could he force everyone to give him money. To be fair he wasn't alone though - many other big companies joined by funding the proxy lobby group to avoid getting flak on their own company. So the mentality was already there and if it wasn't him someone else probably would have started the fire.
Eli Morris
To this day Excel is the best spreadsheet in the market. He did that right.
Oliver Young
why is the software such a mess
why is it un-advanced
he provided nothing. it was the default
windows is stuck in the 80s
people did not know any better
Charles Reed
his mother knew people at IBM
Isaac Harris
xerox suite was far far better
xerox suite had smalltalk
gates /m$ never understood objects
Joseph Kelly
His mom banged that dude from IBM
Ryan Hughes
He got people to make good software because it wasn't free as in freedom so he could pay them for their time and skill.
James Kelly
Ironically it was open standards that made the PC and MSDOS take over the personal computer market. I wasnt using computers back then but everyone Ive talked to who was told me that the PC opened up compatibility of both software and hardware so you werent locked into one platform.
Aaron Flores
he has gentoo virus
Logan Bailey
>the PC
Jacob Davis
literally
Angel Campbell
can anyone point me to a safe KMSpico download place, all i find is shady
Jeremiah Kelly
Bought up successful shit and made it only work on his OS, basically.
Blake Perez
You bastards think it's funny,
Lyin' and thieving all your life,
Think all there is is money,
Got your future strapped up tight,
Just 'Cos You Got The Power,
That don't mean you got the right
Christopher King
Nathan Morgan
windows 95 pc's where cheaper than apple
Jacob Wood
Gary Kildall shitted on IBM executives to get a contract for CPM because he didnt want to bundle it with IBM-PCs
Then Gates bought QDOS which was a CPM clone, renamed it MS-DOS and made the deal with IBM, which turned out to be successful
The rest is history
Eli Gomez
And Windows started out as a graphic shell for DOS which was a copy of Apple own graphic interface
Jobs was furious over this
Luke Powell
Every Windows since XP has just needed to be "XP, but more secure and optimized," why did Microsoft feel as though they had to pack on shitty features?