No one wants to put their fate in the hands of someone who can determine their life or death at any moment.
When that happens, everyone will desperately look for an alternative.
And that's when companies like IBM and Apple will seize the opportunity, having previously missed the perfect chance to monopolize the operating system market.
It wasn't because they lacked research and development capabilities, they simply lacked foresight.
Given another chance, do you guess what these companies would choose?
Unfortunately, Gates is a smart man; he would never make such a foolish mistake.
Operating systems are the core business of Microsoft. Throughout the decades of its growth, there have been more than one company that entered intense competition with it.
But Microsoft has never tampered with its rivals at the operating system level, because it knows that is a no-go zone.
Microsoft Money and Quicken are about application software versus application software.
