HP didn't have a chance - they don't have the software DNA that Google, Apple and Microsoft have.
Microsoft is the underdog here but they have a much better chance of making something happen.
Microsoft is the underdog here but they have a much better chance of making something happen.
HP bought the DNA they needed and Apotheker threw it out.
The true tragedy of HP had occurred well before Apotheker.
Maybe all that they have left is the business sector but they will be far less successful than IBM.
This is the kind of discussion that seems interesting on the surface but in reality has little substance, but here's your one example: QDOS->MSDOS.
...and here we go down the rabbit hole. If I answer your question, which expands the scope of discussion beyond what the GP post was requesting and beyond the scope of my comment, then you respond, and I respond again, by the end of the thread we could be discussing the relative merits of tuna versus salmon.
I was responding with a specific counterexample to a specific point (which I quoted) raised in the original post. Nothing more.
Or, if you prefer a one-word answer: "yes." Now, I'm going to leave this thread to its proper place in my mind, which is to say, out of it :).