IT Assignment 2-Triumph of the Nerds: Riding the Bear2

“Triumph of the Nerds: Riding the Bear” is about the initial introduction of the Personal Computer (PC), and the rise of Microsoft as a major company the produces the world’s most widely use Operating System (OS).

IBM dominated the PC market in short term, but it returned to become a mainframe producing company. Microsoft on the other hand, while “riding the bear”, and rose to the top in the end.
IBM fought back by creating the OS2, which planned to overcome the clone issue. Microsoft responded by creating Windows. A disagreement arose which soon caused the partnership between IBM and Microsoft to disintegrate.

IBM was losing ground in the now rapidly expanding PC market. But Microsoft was still doing great since most of the rival company’s of IBM bought their OS from them.

When Apple marketed one of the world’s first PCs, IBM did something different because IBM intended to enter the newly expanding PC market. On the other hand, IBM planned to used “Open Architecture” to come up with a PC within a year. IBM have almost everything, the keyboard, monitor etc, but they lack 1 thing, the OS and the computer language. Then two candidates came to mind, Bill Gates’ Microsoft and Gary Kildall’s Inter-galactic Digital Research.At last, IBM turned away from Gary Kildall and choose Microsoft. It didn’t matter that Microsoft didn’t have an OS, but with only $50000, Microsoft bought an OS from an obscure small company and the rest was history. Microsoft was on the way to success…