Triumph of the Nerds

Triumph of the Nerds was an extremely well made documentary about the history of computers. It was the best technology documentary I have ever seen with interviews with all the top CEO's of companies such as IBM, Oracle, Microsoft, and Apple. Being an MIS major I am surprised that I had never seen this documentary previously, it brought a lot of value to me. It was cool to see the competitive strategies of Apple vs. Microsoft that took place in the 80's and 90's. It made me again realize that Steve Wozniak was the true brains behind Apple, he was the king of computer hardware while Steve Jobs was the visionary and marketer. The first Revenge of the Nerds segment went over the early computing and software developing days with the Altair, Apple 2, and "homebrew computer meetings". IBM was in a ton of danger when Apple released their first personal computer and they went to Microsoft to develop an operating system and software for their own personal computer in a one year gap of time. When Microsoft did this they took over the market and put Apple on the burner to compete in the market where Microsoft was now the front runner. In 1995 Microsoft released their first GUI in Windows 95 and offered significantly more software than Apple. Around that time Steve Jobs left Apple and this left Apple with no other choice but to release commercials against Microsoft. It is amazing to me that Apple is still around as a company today with all of the failures that they have had in the past. When it comes to computers Microsoft still has the edge in my opinion, Apple still can't get their ridiculous prices down. Steve Jobs and Bill Gates had a lot of respect for each other but you can tell Steve wasn't a fan of Microsoft's "tasteless design". I took a lot from this video and I find it crazy how Oracles CEO had the concept of cloud computing envisioned so long ago.