Invisible wrote:
> According to the history books, the story goes that IBM wanted an OS, 
> Gate's mum knew somebody at IBM, so Gates stole an OS off one of his 
> mates and made it work on the IBM PC. IBM PCs became popular for some 
> reason, and the rest is history.

I think you have a rather twisted telling of that story there. :-)

>> nobody could provide any decent competition back then.
> 
> I doubt that was the reason.

Name two competitors. Were you even in the market at the time it was hashing 
out?

> I wasn't referring only to Windows; M$ make other products as well. 
> (Most notably Office, but also things like VisualStudio, IIS, Exchange, 
> SQL Server, etc.) Other people manage to make similar products which 
> work significantly better, 

Do they? What works better than Exchange?

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   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   "We'd like you to back-port all the changes in 2.0
    back to version 1.0."
   "We've done that already. We call it 2.0."

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