Triumph of the Nerds Part II

The second part of the documentary "The triumph of the nerds" talks about the fight that all the computer companies had to remain at the top of the food chain, an example of this is IBM, that at the time were mostly focused on the creation of mainframes, but at the time the boom was the personal computer so if they took more time they were going to lose a lot of ground that they could not get back.

After seeing "Triumph of the Nerds Part II" and knowing the history between IBM and Microsoft, its very amazing see that thanks to the disruption between IBM and Microsoft caused for the discussion related with the OS of IBM computers (where IBM doesn't want to use "Windows" like instead of its own OS called "OS/2") IBM went of the glory to the hell which proof that the PC world is not an easy context for the business thanks to the velocity in which this context changes with technological advances that are presented faster and faster.

Its not a surprise that Microsoft is a giant in the IT industry in our days where this company covers since software development to hardware development all of this thanks to the "good" decisions that the company has made over the time and its important to mention that all this decisions were unleashed since the company discovered that the software is the essential tool for a PC because the software and specially a good OS can be the difference between a computer that is easy to use for the average person and a computer that is hard to use which is synonym of a failure in all the aspects.

This was a very interesting episode to watch because of all the information and history background that we learned from it, all the decisions that have lead the market to what it is today and all the repercussions of the proposals that were rejected and the individuals that after learning what could have been are most likely crying themselves to sleep every night. Further confirming the idea that in the computer and software industry (or world if you may), you don't only need the idea, but you also need to have the necessary means and the drive to implement them, because otherwise you will have to watch as the competition steals all the glory (and the moneys), as you get to be forgotten as a mere whisper in the wind without any other thing that a mention on a documentary in years to come (only to be forgotten later).

If you are interested in watching this video, here is the link: Triumph of the Nerds Part II