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For what it's worth, MS bought the companies that made a lot of the killer apps for SGI and ported them to Windows-only.

It wasn't pure suicide, Microsoft helped.

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"It wasn't pure suicide, Microsoft helped."

A common theme running through the history of the industry.

Which companies/products were those?

Softimage for example - once they have done the port to WINNT and showed the world it can be done on that platform they have sold Softimage to AVID - which recently sold it to, where all good applications die, Autodesk (Microsoft in shadows)

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