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[–] Thisismyvoatusername 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago  (edited ago)

Yeah, I can list a lot of shitty things he has done and I don't like him, but he actually was a very good businessman and the only reason the PC grew as quickly as it did which directly led to the widespread impact of the dot com era which led to today.

His greatest innovation was licensing his property far and wide. If you wanted a Mac then Apple was the only company you could buy it from and it was expensive. Other computer companies were not focused on cheap, versatile personal machines.

Microsoft allowed all different manufacturers to build computers which would use their operating system. That is what led to the world we live in today at least as much as any other innovation over the last 40 years and it was a business innovation, not a technological one.

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[–] capnflummox ago 

Everything you said is false.