Comments by "Paul Frederick" (@1pcfred) on "Microsoft's Former CEO Says Disagreement With Gates on Smartphones Drove Them Apart" video.

  1. Ballmer engineered the contract with IBM which was the biggest swindle in history. He's the one who made the big ask. Getting that is what made Microsoft huge.
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  2. The only thing Microsoft ever invented was the EULA.
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  3.  The Absolute Madman  oh come now. It can't be that bad, can it? I wouldn't know. I run Linux.
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  4. Ballmer was the business guy.
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  5. No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public. That concept expands globally.
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  6. I've gotten a number of PCs because they had Windows installed on them. It is fair to say the whole PC clone market is because of Microsoft. They had something to do with the IBM BIOS being re engineered in the far east. Although it is a difficult thing to prove definitively. They certainly benefited from it the most.
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  7. You know Android is Linux, don't you? Steve and Linux have history between each other. So what you're suggesting was never going to happen.
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  8. Steve was employee number 2. Steve also arguably cut the most important deal for Microsoft with IBM.
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