Microsoft not only put a PC in every home and on every desk but was crucial to defining the relationships between OEMs, platform providers, developers, businesses and consumers that are the foundations of the present age of personal computing. Consumers and businesses also benefitted from the fact that Microsoft's platform became the dev box and target of a massive community of developers who ultimately supplied Windows with 16 million programs. With user-friendly tools like Windows, Office and MS Paint, Microsoft was successful with making computing, something that was remote and foreign to most people, a personal and easy experience. Microsoft grew from a company that employed just 30 people to a multibillion global force that employs 124,000 individuals and affects business, social and global change. Through partnerships with PC makers, Windows became the dominant PC OS in businesses and homes around the globe. Eventually, Microsoft's MS-DOS became the foundation of the Windows OS that propelled the company's personal computing vision around the world. Recognizing that other PC makers might attempt to copy it, Microsoft retained the OS's copyrights. In a pivotal deal with IBM in 1980, Microsoft created the PC-DOS operating system for a fee of $80,000. This negative perception didn't hinder Microsoft's objective to define personal computing, however.
The large enterprise-focused devices that defined what computers were, and what they were useful for, were not something doubters could reconcile as useful tools in homes. Ironically, in those early days of computing naysayers mocked the idea of personal home computers.
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