1990-1995: Microsoft's Yellow Road to Cairo

RoughlyDrafted Magazine by Daniel Eran | Dec. 14, 2006 (News Analysis)

Automatic PC sales of DOS rapidly made Microsoft one of the largest software companies of the 80s. As its market power increased, it gained a reputation as a vendor with staying power. Nobody wanted to invest in the software of a company that might go out of business. Full Story »

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Posted by: Posted by Henry Wong - Dec 14, 2006 - 4:32 PM PST
Reviewed by: Henry Wong (review), Jonathan Shallcross (review), Donald Piketty (review), Jack Awak (review), Mike Caddick (review), jeffrey burrows (review)
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Henry Wong
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 by Henry Wong - Oct. 1, 2008

It recall the history of how Microsoft to become what it is now.

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 by Jack Awak - Oct. 1, 2008

Horrible facts, and typical high school level writing and maturity lefvel. In other words, typical Daniel Eran piece. Good thing he has lots of different user names to drive up his ratings.

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