[McAttack]

Originally posted by sweet7
I call it BALLS not fluke. Any which way you cut it, they are an intelligent organization. Their market positioning is so widespread and embeded that you can't escape using a microsoft product. <-- that's simply good business.

I give Microsoft a lot of credit for where they are today, but why I call it fluke is because the guy they bought the DOS program from originally said no to IBM. Microsoft was the 2nd choice. So this guy, instead of making millions, got $50k from Microsoft. There's a really good documentary on TV, a 3 part series. I think it's called the Birth of the internet or something like that. It's REALLY interesting and it talks about the big companies, how they started, and all that. Like XEROX for example, could have been the dominant company in the world because most of the big "ideas" came from people in their company, and XEROX said "No". Lack of vision on their part kept them in the copier business.