>>>>We should never forget that Ballmer got his start marketing soap for P & G.
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>>>But wasn't he also the guy who snookered IBM with the proviso in the agreement that MS could continue to market DOS to other PC makers ? ( the poison pill that almost killed Apple and IBM )
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>>Exactly. He failed with both. ::)
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>Depends on what you mean by "failed" If IBM had exclusive rights to DOS there would have been no Microsoft OS dominance and Balmer would be about 100 billion zillion dollars poorer. So it wasn't a total disaster <bg>
... that almost killed Apple and IBM
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