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| Time: 06:20 EST/11:20 GMT | News Source: *Linked Within Post* | Posted By: Kenneth van Surksum | ||
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Few people understand Microsoft better than Tandy Trower, who worked at the company from 1981-2009. Trower was the product manager who ultimately shipped Windows 1.0, an endeavor that some advised him was a path toward a ruined career. Four product managers had already tried and failed to ship Windows before him, and he initially thought that he was being assigned an impossible task. In this follow-up to yesterday’s story on the future of Windows, Trower recounts the inside story of his experience in transforming Windows from vaporware into a product that has left an unmistakable imprint on the world, 25 years after it was first released. | ||
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| #1 By 17855 (205.167.180.132) at 3/9/2010 11:52:01 AM |
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It's interesting when you read this. A lot of pundits like to paint the picture that Microsoft has always been on top and hasn't earned theyr way some how. When in reality Microsoft has continually pushed harder than everyone else. If I read another article about Apple's revolutionary I-Pad...
Thanks K. van Surksum / ActiveWin! |
| #2 By 15406 (216.191.227.68) at 3/10/2010 10:40:26 AM |
| Those of us old enough to have been there paying attention know that MS's success was a soup made from equal parts of skill, chance and subterfuge. If IBM hadn't thought the PC would only sell in very limited numbers, they would have bought DOS outright instead of licensing it. That one deal created enough cash for MS to use as a launchpad to grow the company and pursue other markets. |
| #3 By 17855 (205.167.180.132) at 3/10/2010 12:34:37 PM |
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The other piece to this is making the PC hardware platform an open spec. Enabling 3rd parties like Compaq with the VL-Bus to improve on IBM's original work and being able to license Microsoft products really helped market share. I still remember the industry praising Microsoft for unifying the industry on one platform, reducing development costs. This post was edited by awiltfong on Wednesday, March 10, 2010 at 12:41. |
| #4 By 2960 (72.205.26.164) at 3/15/2010 4:22:40 PM |
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#2,
Well, IBM could not have bought DOS because it did not exist. As far as they know it didn't. They contracted with Microsoft to WRITE DOS, and here's where Microsoft got sneaky, they went and bought the core product from another entity, polished it up, and then licensed it out as DOS. It's too many years ago for me to remember who they bought it from. #3, IBM had no intention of the PC being open spec. It just ended up that way. It was one hell of a battle IIRC. Don't forget, some portions of MS-DOS would NOT run on Clone Machines (MS-Basic was one of them) because of the BIOS differences. |
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