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Microsoft: The Complete History and Strategy

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Microsoft. After nearly a decade of Acquired episodes, we are finally ready to tackle the most valuable company ever created. The company that put a computer on every desk and in every home. The company that invented the software business model. The company that so thoroughly and completely dominated every conceivable competitor that the United States government intervened and kneecapped it… yet it’s STILL the most valuable company in the world today. This episode tells the story of Microsoft in its heyday, the PC Era. We cover its rise from a teenage dream to the most powerful business and technology force in history — the 20-year period from 1975 to 1995 that took Bill and Paul from the Lakeside high school computer room to launching Windows 95 alongside Jay Leno and the Rolling Stones. From BASIC to DOS, Windows, Office, Intel, IBM, Xerox PARC, Apple, Steve Jobs, Steve Ballmer… it’s all here, and it’s all amazing. Tune in and enjoy… Microsoft. ‍ Sponsors: Many thanks to our fantast

Microsoft Volume I | Acquired so Cloudflare URLs win cascade before parses and triggers font fetches --> back transcript • Season 14 | episode 4 Microsoft Volume I David: What were you listening to before we hopped on to your walkout music? Ben: The new Beyonce. David: The new Beyonce, I haven't heard it yet. How is it? Ben: I really like it. David: Nice. Ben: I think it is reductionist to call it country. David: I was appropriately enough listening to Start Me Up through the ages. Ben: Of course you were. But I feel like a David Rosenthal move is that you might have been listening to Start Me

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