How did Windows become famous on Desktop Computers? Cross-selling since 1980 with IBM

How did Windows become famous on Desktop Computers? Cross-selling since 1980 with IBM and MS-DOS. A little History:

    Today we will bring you a historical explaining why the Windows system has dominated and continues to dominate the world of desktop computers and notebooks, not giving space and creating difficulties for other systems such as Linux to grow in commercial participation.

     In the case of MacOs, we already have a specific audience that only looks for and consumes Apple products, but they are also part of the same problem of tied sales, since a Linux system could run on a Mac, of course!

    In the case of Linux, there is no such thing as a tie-in sale, since it is a 100% free Open Source system! Although Linux dominates the Android world and several embedded devices and supercomputers or servers, in the desktop world it has been completely suffocated by the practice of tied sales that has been happening with Windows for years.

    So it all started when Bill Gates created Microsoft in 1981, launching the company's first operating system, the famous MS-DOS. At that time, all operating systems were 100% based on text commands (the famous Linux terminal or Windows Cmd)! There were few operating systems at the time that were easy to use or that were developed, and it is worth remembering that MS-DOS was not created from scratch by Microsoft, but rather improved from another operating system that was purchased by Bill Gates from another programmer, the QDos system created by Tim Paterson!

    The term DOS or D.O.S is not a Microsoft patent, but rather an abbreviation for Disk Operating System. There are several DOS systems in the world, such as FreeDOS, MSX-DOS, OS/2, etc.!

    

But in 1980, IBM, a global computer manufacturing giant, needed an operating system for its famous IBM-PC, and in a meeting with Microsoft, they decided on this first combined sale of Software+Hardware in world history! Every IBM-PC would come with MS-DOS installed and, of course, with its exclusive Microsoft programs!

    This was the beginning of the great practice of selling computers with Microsoft operating systems installed! Other manufacturers would also copy IBM and sell their computers with MS-DOS installed. Other DOS systems on the market would succumb to this practice of tied sales, since lay users would already buy the computer with MS-DOS installed and would not uninstall the system to install another due to the work and lack of technical knowledge! 

    In 1985, Bill Gates, copying the idea of ​​Steve Jobs' projects for the graphical operating system used in the Apple Lisa, launched the first Windows 1.0! This was the first time in the world that the term "Windows" that many people know began to be heard! But the practice of tied sales continued to grow more and more and with this, Microsoft became powerful and well-known in the universe of Desktop and notebook computers, the famous PC platform! 

    Linux was only invented in the 1990s, that is, 10 years after MS-DOS and 15 years after Windows 1.0! Users were already accustomed to Windows on the PC and Linux did not yet have a graphical environment in its first version, being more similar to MS-DOS! Today, Linux has grown so much that it has even inspired Windows in many practical tools for users. Windows 8 copied the full-screen application launcher that Linux has in many versions, including Android, which is also Linux!

    But even though Linux is safer, more stable and free of charge, and with hundreds of applications available for free for users to download and use, it still cannot grow in the Desktop world due to the large commercial agreement of Tied Sales by computer manufacturers who still only offer computers with Windows pre-installed, following the tradition that began in 1981 of Tied Sales!

    Tied Sales are prohibited by law in Brazil, article 39 of the CDC, and in many countries today, in the USA, there is even an investigation that points to Microsoft being guilty of harming other companies in software technology and for the practice of tied sales.

    The biggest culprits of this Tied Sales that harms other systems and the OpenSource world, which could benefit many users around the world, are precisely the computer manufacturers!

    They sell computers with Windows already pre-installed and do not allow the choice of Linux or other systems! Other culprits include manufacturers of peripherals, printers, mice, keyboards, etc., who do not officially support Linux and other systems! Linux develops its own drivers through the community, and not everything works 100%!

    Hardware manufacturers are the biggest culprits of cross-selling! Windows is commercial, so everyone makes money with it, except the end user, who only spends!

    Other culprits include software and game developers, who all run officially on Windows, and although Linux does run some of them or has its own software, they are not officially supported!

    Finally, the ultimate culprit is the computer user himself! He doesn't know or doesn't want to use Linux out of laziness, even though he knows that Windows is a money-suck and if it's pirated, it's even worse!

    It's up to us to change this!

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