The guy did know what he made, but he did not know potential of his Disk Operating System. Bill made deal with IBM, but instead of making it, he bought finished OS from that guy (can't remember his name).
After that he did make great investment in making Microsoft company for all software you need on PC, and that would be reason he is recently often in the courts, as they got sued for software monopoly.
In the mean time they bought way to many companies, and got huge. :blink:
Ironic fact: The hotmail, today owned by Microsoft, until recently (couple years ago) was hosted on FreeBSD + apache servers. LOL
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