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I've always gotten the impression that Microsoft was from the beginning more of a business enterprise than an engineering one. Gates and Allen wrote BASIC for the Altair, and then made it big by buying QDOS after Gary Kildall was out of the office when IBM came by for a meeting. Doesn't really compare with the revolutions of the Apple II and Macintosh.

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> I've always gotten the impression that Microsoft was from the beginning more of a business enterprise than an engineering one.

At the risk of being rude, if that’s the impression you had, then you’ve been entirely misled. Microsoft in the early days was quiet literally the exact opposite.

I recommend reading virtually any book (there’s a lot) on the early history of MicroSoft.

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