Mxsmanic wrote:

John Doe writes:

It wasn't all that Herculean. Apparently IBM didn't try very
hard. Microsoft did a good job of gaining a stranglehold on the
personal computer software market and never letting go, and
that's where we are today.

A stranglehold? Perhaps you meant a struggle, which far better
characterizes Microsoft's activities back in those days.


I think Microsoft gained a stranglehold about the time it published
Windows 95.