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What Microsoft is this the Altair Basic of?
> It's not dumb luck. MS made a fortune from marketing and business politics, not from cool technology. MS was never primarily a tech company, it was a sales-and-marketing-and-M&A company that happened to sell tech products.
The Apple of the eighties.
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The Apple of the eighties.