MS got a code contract with LOTUS 1-2-3 and promptly stole the source code.
MS also made an early version of Word that enabled legal secretaries to use their memorized WordPerfect hotkeys when using MS Word. Word emerged to bury WordPerfect.
MS got a contract with Steve Jobs of Apple to help develop their WYSIWYG Word processing and spreadsheet products. MS stole those also, then emerged “Windows.”
Thieves.
WA State is now a brood of thieves but Marxists are descending on them.
Serves them right.
Hope they eat each other.
Signs show their moment in the Sun is fading.
WA state was once conservative, Scoop Jackson conservative.
But vote fraud is entrenched since year 2000.
Seattle was once a Boeing town with a lot of very talented machinists and engineers. They are now setting up shop in South Carolina.
Good list. It brought back memories. Disk compression and optimization was another technology they crushed. I think it is safe to add their Media / Video player too.