Microsoft 50th anniversary: from Gates days to dark ages -Ballmer-, to embracing open source, loving Linux -Nadella- to saving Open AI & world's 1st!

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As a Microsoft fanboy my entiire life -I don't hate Linux though, I like it very much and will end up the most used OS in every respect, imho- Nadella is the best CEO that it ever had, and Bill Gates was just from another time but he could see the importance of software where others didn't.

Also how they were much smarter than Elon Musk and they saved Open AI by investing money on them when Altman left Tesla without money but owning Open AI.

This is the best video I've seen, by far, explaining the history of Microsoft. It's from a peruvian guy, so use subtitles, but haven't seen a best video explaining so well how Microsoft came to be and why we have the current Microsoft.

 
Davros said:
Part luck, part foresight, part genius, part scummy practices
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What a great businessman Bill Gates was, and how much he's changed over the years. He's from a different era, and that's obvious in his practices.

I always wonder how fun those testosterone-fueled meetings must have been, where all formalities were set aside to earn respect through shouting, insults, and bravado.

Both robed ideas from Xerox, who had a graphics interface, and the mouse. I also wonder how it came to be that Steve Jobs was fired from Macintosh in 1985 'cos how he treated employees and Lisa was a failure, and years later Bill Gates saved Apple when Jobs was Apple's CEO again.

At least from what is shown in the movie "Pirates of Silicon Valley". Is there truth to it? I mean..., that Bill Gates saved Apple giving loads of money?
 
Cyan said:
What a great businessman Bill Gates was, and how much he's changed over the years.
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He ripped off so many people in the early days! The whole way he bought DOS for $50k still gets under my skin and I've had more than 4 friends tell me tales of MS stealing their code and never admitting to it through a wall of lawyers. Neither forget how he drove Netscape out of business with his IE hijinks.

I'm an MS guy from DOS days but 'What an effective businessman" would sit better with me than "What a great businessman".

He did mellow out but only after he had a firm monopolistic grasp of the computer OS scene, which is something at least.
 
digitalwanderer said:
He ripped off so many people in the early days! The whole way he bought DOS for $50k still gets under my skin and I've had more than 4 friends tell me tales of MS stealing their code and never admitting to it through a wall of lawyers. Neither forget how he drove Netscape out of business with his IE hijinks.

I'm an MS guy from DOS days but 'What an effective businessman" would sit better with me than "What a great businessman".

He did mellow out but only after he had a firm monopolistic grasp of the computer OS scene, which is something at least.
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1980's all major players were run by very ruthless players. They rip each other as well.
This is just single example but there's lot's of them from different sources... Gates has later admitted that his worst mistakes include selling MS BASIC Lisence and source code with single transaction. First he did it with Apple and then again with Commodore. After that he decided that he would never do that again... and few years later MSX platform was born to compete against two home computer giants.

Commodore founder and strong arm leader Jack Tramiel said "I don't believe in compromises, I believe winning." and by that he meant that Commodore had to own everything needed to build complete systems. Nothing should be outsourced. And while doing that I crushed quite few toes on his way as well inside as outside of the company.

That era was not nice time in business. Tramiel said "Business is war." and many sources seem to indicate that really was the case in late from 70's to late 80's.
 
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