How Microsoft Became Microsoft
Business Insider, Sep. 21, 2010
“A great strategy always beats a great product,” writes Jonathan Byrnes in his Business Insider story about the beginning of Microsoft. “Unlike the other PC and software pioneers…Bill Gates was first and foremost a businessman. He saw clearly the need to get an inside track on the revolutionary growth by using his products to create a dominant strategy.”
Although Byrnes’s article primarily serves as a basic introduction to Microsoft’s founding, it also reminds us how much has changed in the 35 years since the company started in 1975.
Bill Gates and Steve Jobs look back at Apple and Microsoft‘s early history in the following 2007 AllThingsD conference video.
