Triumph of the nerds part 2

This time we will focus on  "Triumph of the Nerds Part II", which talks about IBM  business and shows us the idea of how it decided to get into the personal computer business, and some importants facts as why they chose the MS-DOS first standard operating system on their new PC and the relation of IBM and Microsoft started. In general we saw in this episode of Triumph of the nerds, the IBM riding the bear and Microsoft's huge success and CP/M's failure.

The important fact was that IBM needed a software developer for their new PC, having to choices Gary Kildall, creator of CPM  or Bill Gates, who was the president of Microsoft, when going to Microsoft they told them that they didn't have an OS so they focused with  an OS developed by Tim Patterson and of course the relation between Microsoft and IBM was successful and IBM's PC was the best at that moment and  everyone wanted a PC like that.

After some time BM market started to drop because of some new competitors, and at this time Gates with the team he was in  wanted to create a more user friendly OS Windows, and  IBM wanted to stick with the OS/2 destined to businesses, what was about to break the relationship  of Microsoft with IBM. And it is important to mention that IBM went of the glory to failure and that shows us that the PC world is not an easy context for the business thanks to the velocity in which this context changes with technological advances that are presented faster.Microsoft took in some way the good decisions and its important to mention that all this decisions were unleashed since the company discovered that the software is the essential tool for a PC.

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