Microsoft's Most Important Contributions

“I’m going to head all the way back to MS-DOS, which powered the first IBM PC back in 1981. Without this, Microsoft may well have remained as a software and add-on supplier for Apple and fizzled out, along with Apple, in the mid-1990s.” “Embarrassed to say for me it’s Word. Hated it at first, grumbled about the ribbon, switched to Libre and then Google Docs, but its fundamental ops are hard-wired in my brain (apart from Ctrl-C, Ctrl-X and Ctrl-V, which remain from WordStar).” “Arguably Windows 9...