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By the early s, the company was losing billions of dollars a year and struggling to stay afloat, with Microsoft surpassing IBM in market value in January IBM had also let its wild ducks be corralled by overly cautious lawyers — a lesson Microsoft would learn from, throwing legal caution to the wind at times. That would occasionally land the company in hot water, including with the famous antitrust suit brought by the U. Justice Department in the late s.

And so goes the history of modern computing — from hardware to software, from wild ducks to cowboys and misfits, transitions powered in large part by a single highly consequential contract provision. Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix and Google dominated stocks in the s.

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In addition, the trust cut its stake in FedEx Corp. It also reduced its stake in Walmart Inc. The trust acquired 5. Gates Foundation, which he launched in Gates left Microsoft in to concentrate on his philanthropic endeavors, with a focus on socioeconomic, educational, and environmental issues. Benzinga does not provide investment advice.