Angus Doyle

UK

CEO

I have to disagree with my friend here. Microsoft played a key role in the PC market. PC (Personal Computer).. this is the key word here. Bill Gates and friends had a vision of seeing every household with a PC, before microsoft; computers were very hard to operate and not suitable for the population at large, until they introduced the DOS operating system to IBM it was then that the dream was realised.

Perhaps the industry would have grown, but not as fast and as successful without microsoft. I have to respect Bill Gates and his forward thinking that allows me to work in the industry that I truly love.

Simply without Microsoft do you think that most of the population would be operating software like UNIX Shell. Microsoft introduced the GUI in the form of windows. They gave us the Windows and the Mouse. Granted some bods at Xerox came up with the Idea. Ironically the bosses at Xerox thought the idea not worthy, again Microsoft seen the future in these devices and brought it to the masses.

Therefore Microsoft can claim they indeed created the PC industry which we have today and I say WELL DONE!