>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 )

That move by IBM stands tall as one of the most historic blunders in business history, but I thought it was Gates who snookered them into it.