OS/2
product on 2 shows · 3 statements across 2 episodes · said 37 times in 4 episodes since 2024
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- Microsoft Volume I: The Complete History and Strategy of founding through Windows 95 (Audio) · Acquired
- Microsoft Volume II: The Complete History and Strategy of the Ballmer Years (Audio) · Acquired
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Ballmer: Microsoft's first antitrust inquiry came from FTC over IBM collusion
“This was our first antitrust problem. I don't know if you guys know this, is the FTC at the time thought we and IBM were working to divide the market because we had done some positioning. What's windows good for? What's always too good for? We and IBM had done…”
Microsoft generated $600M in FY1988 with almost nothing from OS/2
“Fiscal 88, they do six hundred million in revenue. Basically none of this is from OS two and the IBM world.”