{"id":3154,"date":"2013-07-25T04:34:23","date_gmt":"2013-07-25T04:34:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/the-unholy-alliance-is-born\/"},"modified":"2013-07-25T04:34:23","modified_gmt":"2013-07-25T04:34:23","slug":"the-unholy-alliance-is-born","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/the-unholy-alliance-is-born\/","title":{"rendered":"The Unholy Alliance is Born"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"post-1853\">\n<div class=\"format_text entry-content\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1319\" title=\"IBM PC 5150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/02dc0__250px-IBM_PC_5150.jpg\" alt=\"IBM PC 5150\" width=\"250\" height=\"181\" \/>June 22, 1980<\/p>\n<p>Representatives from an IBM facility in Boca Raton, Florida, where a small group of engineers were secretly developing the <a title=\"The IBM PC Introduced\" href=\"http:\/\/redirect.viglink.com?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&#038;u=http%3A%2F%2Fthisdayintechhistory.com%2F2011%2F08%2F12%2Fthe-ibm-pc-introduced%2F\">IBM PC<\/a>, meet with Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer of Microsoft to discuss licensing software and an operating system for the still-developing PC. Not having an operating system to offer IBM, Microsoft will eventually buy the rights to <a title=\"Microsoft Introduces BASIC for 8086\" href=\"http:\/\/redirect.viglink.com?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&#038;u=http%3A%2F%2Fthisdayintechhistory.com%2F2012%2F06%2F18%2Fmicrosoft-introduces-basic-for-8086%2F\">QDOS\/86-DOS from Seattle Computing Products<\/a>, which they in-turn license to IBM as PC-DOS, and later license to PC clone makers as MS-DOS. This alliance between IBM and Microsoft forms one of the most dominant platforms in the history of computing, which goes on to crush nearly all other PC platforms in the 80\u2032s and 90\u2032s. Ironically this platform <a title=\"IBM Loses $  5 Billion\" href=\"http:\/\/redirect.viglink.com?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&#038;u=http%3A%2F%2Fthisdayintechhistory.com%2F2011%2F01%2F19%2Fibm-loses-5-billion%2F\">nearly crushes IBM<\/a> itself as they lost control of the platform to PC clone makers and Microsoft.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"previous\">Previous post: <a href=\"http:\/\/redirect.viglink.com?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&#038;u=http%3A%2F%2Fthisdayintechhistory.com%2F07%2F21%2Fapple-introduces-ibook-laptop%2F\" rel=\"prev\">Apple Introduces iBook Laptop<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Next post: <a href=\"http:\/\/redirect.viglink.com?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&#038;u=http%3A%2F%2Fthisdayintechhistory.com%2F07%2F23%2Ffirst-ford-model-a-sold%2F\" rel=\"next\">First Ford Model A Sold<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/02dc0__p-89EKCgBk8MZdE.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" \/><br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/07\/22\/the-unholy-alliance-is-born\/\">This Day in Tech History<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>June 22, 1980 Representatives from an IBM facility in Boca Raton, Florida, where a small group of engineers were secretly developing the IBM PC, meet with Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer of Microsoft to discuss licensing software and an operating system for the still-developing PC. Not having an operating system to offer IBM, Microsoft will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3155,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[194],"tags":[943,907,942],"class_list":["post-3154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-today-in-tech","tag-alliance","tag-born","tag-unholy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3154"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3154\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}