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Ralph Mowery

In article ,
says...

The early success that put them in a near monopoly position, was not
about buying out competition, but by being
very lucky to have been chosen by IBM to provide the OS for their
first PC. That's how MSFT owned the business PC market. IBM and
all the IBM clones ran MSFT OS and had no choice. It was the power of
the IBM brand, setting a standard that really put them where they
are today. Later they used that success to expand into other areas,
eg applications, internet, etc, a lot of that through acquisitions.

That is only partof the story.

GAtes and a company called something like Digital Research were in
competition. Gates out smarted DR. He asked IBM to put out both and let
the public choose. DR sold the system for about $ 150 and MS for $
49. People being what they are bought mostly the $ 49 version.

That gave MS a big start money wise. There was a couple of other
operating systems out,but they never made a go of it. I am thinking
maybe DR. DOS

MS sort of stole the windows design and the mouse from other companies.