IBM had gotten fat and sassy. They were ready for a take down, anyway. Bill Gates FATHER [cabal connected] and some of his cronies decided to take over the computer industry. To do that, they had to take down IBM. They conned their way to getting the original DOS, and used Bill Gates as a front man, to throw IBM off guard, cause if they knew who they were really dealing with, they'd have used an army of lawyers.
Gates got DOS from a computer nerd (no, he didn't develop any of it) and talked IBM into using it on their personal computers. IBM saw PCs as relatively minor, and in fact, deliberately crippled them so they wouldn't compete with mini-computers and mainframes, which were much more profitable per unit. Instead of selling DOS to IBM, the cartel leased it to them per computer. IBM saw this as a minor deal with a college dropout, not a chess game with a cartel.
Gates named Microsoft after one of his body parts, and began leasing it to other companies. Since they didn't make mainframes, they started making better, faster PCs than IBM. However, the profit margin on PCs was small. The profit margin on software was astronomical, cause after it was created, it could be cloned for free.
Once Microsoft was a virtual monopoly, they started their slash and burn, buying up smaller competitors, or changing the operating system to make programs like Wordperfect, Lotus123 and dBase crash, so they wouldn't compete with Word, Excel and Access.
TL;DR: Gates wasn't brains behind Microsoft. He was the front man. He's still a front man, only now for big Pharma.
Did I make it in before Festival?
Apparently not.