Bill Gates contributed to writing a very simple OS (DOS 1.0). About 100k of code.
IBM brought the PC to the masses.
Apple popularized the windows-like GUI.
Everytime a developer came up with a neat utility, Microsoft incororated it in their package for free.
Gates was very slow to embrace the internet and TCP/IP core and networking in the OS.
The personal computer revolution is an industry success.
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