Comment Re:How soon we forget (Score 1) 493
I need to correct myself. I incorrectly remembered the various 8-bit DOSes as licensed by Microsoft, but they were actually built in-house. Still, this doesn't diminish the fact that Microsoft was one of the few successful software operations of the late 70s/early 80s, even before DOS. In the unlikely event that Amiga or Macintosh started taking off, it's equally unlikely Microsoft would have stood by and watched their marketshare erode simply because they chose IBM before either existed.