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How the IBM PC Won, Then Lost, the Personal Computer Market

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But it took more than a year and scores of meetings for IBM's contract and legal teams to authorize the terms. It did not matter that Microsoft's software was notorious for having bugs or that IBM's was far cleaner. Cortada was then head of a sales team at IBM's Nashville site. In 1995, IBM CEO Louis V. Gerstner Jr.

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