Standards Battles and Design Dominance.pptVIP

Chapter 4 Standards Battles and Design Dominance The Rise of Microsoft In 1980, Microsoft didn’t even have a personal computer (PC) operating system – the dominant operating system was CP/M. However, in IBM’s rush to bring a PC to market, they turned to Microsoft for an operating system and Microsoft produced a clone of CP/M called “MS DOS.” The success of the IBM PCs (and clones of IBM PCs) resulted in the rapid spread of MS DOS, and an even more rapid proliferation of software applications designed to run on MS DOS. Microsoft’s Windows was later bundled with (and eventually replaced) MS DOS