Windows | Microsoft's Biggest Mistake

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  @nationsquid · 2 years ago · pinned

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  @themackieisbackie · 2 years ago

  we need to remake Steve Ballmer Sells Dirty Windows with the little Gill Bates intro

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  @phirenz · 2 years ago

  The premise of this video is a little flawed.<br><br>Windows 1.0 wasn&apos;t trying to compete against MacOS, even if that was a common comparison that journalists of the day made. Instead, Microsoft was desperately trying to compete against all the other GUIs that sat on top of DOS. It was a rapidly expanding market segment that arose in the wake of the Macintosh, and whoever one that race would gain a massive foothold and potentially de-throne Microsoft, replacing MS-DOS. <br><br>We are talking about VisiCorp&apos;s Visi On, IBM&apos;s TopView, Digital Research&apos;s GEM and Lotus&apos; Symphony. They all operated as regular programs running on top of DOS and had similar capabilities. Everyone has forgotten about these programs today, but that&apos;s because Microsoft&apos;s strategy with Windows worked.

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  @Emancipatriot · 2 years ago (edited)

  Windows and Mac were both products of bill and Steve seeing the xerox machines. Glad you brought them up. It’s a shame Xerox never really got into the game themselves. They stuck with their own corner of the market.

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  @hullstar242 · 2 years ago

  Then original macOS wasn’t exactly watered down xerox os. There’s an example of an software engineer that swears he saw overlapping windows on Xerox’s computer so he tried to recreate it and did successfully because he believed it to be possible just to find out later xerox had not figured out overlapping windows yet. He had just remembered wrong! <br><br>I’m pretty sure it was in the Steve Jobs book by Walter you cited,

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  @ThePeterDislikeShow · 2 years ago

  When I was a kid I used to think the number &quot;billion&quot; was named after Bill Gates, because he was the first billionaire.

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  @bchristian85 · 2 years ago

  Windows didn&apos;t really become popular until 3.0. &nbsp;2.x was a little better than 1.0, but it still wasn&apos;t overly popular.

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  @jonahplayscello · 2 years ago

  Finally, a normal upload rather than a premiere

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  @kaitlyn__L · 2 years ago

  That lower energy delivery of Ballmer’s joke video is actually even funnier than the original. Well done

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  @ThunderFox227 · 2 years ago

  I have never heard someone say &quot;gewy&quot; rather than &quot;gee, yu, eye&quot;

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  @Chuck_vs._The_Comment_Section · 2 years ago (edited)

  I&apos;m almost at the end of the video now and I still haven&apos;t figured out why Windows was supposedly Microsoft&apos;s biggest mistake.<br>I would argue that Windows in general, and version 3 in particular, was an absolute godsend for MS. With this operating system they were able to displace their competitors, establish themselves as a monopolist and eventually become one of the most valuable companies in the world.<br>But what do I know? I&apos;m not a wide-reaching YouTuber, I&apos;m just someone who has been intensively involved and informed about these events as a hobby.

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  @midnightlumina7 · 2 years ago

  The real funny thing about it is that Xerox....Is now famous for their photocopiers, while it was a victim of people Copying their ideas.

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