Was Microsoft his own idea and creation?
2007-03-06 05:52:48 · 5 answers · asked by MARTIN 2 in News & Events ➔ Current Events
He stole mr. apple's windows idea for one.
2007-03-06 05:55:51 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
In the early days of Silicon Valley, Bill Gates worked with the people who eventually developed all kinds of products and pretty much cooperated. Gates walked away and stole a lot of the ideas of the people who had trusted him.
Microsoft's success is founded not on quality of product but on relentless advertising.
To this day, Microsoft would not amount to much if it did not copy what Apple does, such as the graphic interface with point-and-click interaction.
Now the Gates empire is taking note that the iPod is very successful so they are trying to get on the bandwagon.
If Google can clean their clock I will be cheering them on.
Menwhile, I prefer to use the many excellent open source products, freely available ay no charge, which outperform Microsoft's buggy and virus-prone stuff.
2007-03-06 14:04:52 · answer #2 · answered by fra59e 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The company "Microsoft" was indeed the creation -- probably the only original one -- of Bill Gates and Paul Allen. They purchased DOS from a computer geek for $50,000, and what set them apart and made them famous was that for the first time, they didn't SELL it to IBM...they LICENSED it. They said, "Instead of paying us a flat rate for our software, you're going to pay us a little bit of money for each computer that you put it on." It got even better with Windows. They changed the rules to "You're going to pay us for each computer you build, whether or not you put Windows on it." Eventually an anti-trust suit forced them to abandon that practice, but not before they got to the point where they were making an 85% profit margin on the Windows operating system.
Gates was/is a marketing genius, and that's why Microsoft is where it is today.
2007-03-06 13:57:55 · answer #3 · answered by Scotty Doesnt Know 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The key to his fortune was his Dad's introduction to some guys at IBM. Buying a license to the CPM operating system for $10K, and then with slight modification licensing it to IBM as OS for a $1 a pop, instead of the $100,000 they offered him. His 'lucky' break was IBM's business strategy of outsourcing the operating system for the PC, instead of developing it themselves. - that cost them Billions.
2007-03-06 14:03:51 · answer #4 · answered by squeezie_1999 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He bought a brilliant idea (IBM, DOS) dirt cheap and then cashed in.
But Vista certainly won't make him rich as it is garbage.
2007-03-06 14:01:09 · answer #5 · answered by Mighty C 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋