Microsoft

The Microsoft Corporation has become synonymous with personal computing. The company developed software applications that took over the computing industry. Its reputation grew with the popularity of the MS DOS operating system. Windows 3.1, a graphics program that piggybacked on DOS, revolutionized PC and gave what used to be called "IBM-compatible" computers and equal footing with Macintosh computers. Microsoft gained even more popularity with word processing, spreadsheet, and presentation applications. It became such a formidable software developer that most competitors gave up or sold out to Microsoft.
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