Triumph of the Nerds Part II

The second part of the documentary “Triumph of the Nerds” focuses on the differences between what were the old companies, mainly IBM or Big Blue as they called it, to new companies like Microsoft or Apple. Mainly the way Big Blue is a lot more strict, has a lot of customs and rules, compared to Microsoft or Apple which were companies whose leaders didn’t have a strict dress code or strict written in stone working hours. We also see how computers were still not ready to be the wonder machines they are today, Big Blue saw them as unnecessary machines.

Once Big Blue started creating personal computers, they needed someone to create for them, they had the hardware, but without the software, it was useless. And that is where Bill Gates comes in, creating the operating system for the IBM computers. What Big Blue did not predict, was that that young boy they hired to make their operating system, would be one of the most influential people in our current era, or how him and another called Steve Jobs, would become the greatest threat to their computer business, a model that stayed behind the times when they were changing.

Finally, we can say that a lot of people didn’t have enough insights or the right thought at the right moment to see how the computer became a revolutionary item that is in almost all of the households in the world. And we see how both the hardware and the software are very important to the computer to be able to be sold, if you sell something very powerful with little to no functions, it was not going to sell. A lesson we can take away from the movie is to never leave a million dollar idea hanging around there without a patent, or it could happen like it did to the guys how created the first spreadsheet program