They don’t have a great history as a software development company. So much success they’ve achieved has been from acquisitions or mergers.
QDOS => MS-DOS
Forethought => PowerPoint
Apple's Lisa and Mac GUI "inspired" Windows 3.0 GUI
Windows NT was developed jointly with IBM
VMS => NTFS
Blue Ribbon Soundworkds => DirectSound
Vermeer Tech => Frontpage
Firefly Network => Passport
Hotmail was acquired.
Spyglass => Internet Explorer
http://arstechnica.com/hardware/news/2008/03/past-present-future-file-systems.ars/2
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