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After the first personal computers were built in the last quarter of the last century, it was the commoditisation of the industry that enabled Bill Gates and his Microsoft Windows operating system — terrible as it was — to get ahead. PCs built by the bigger American companies were just too expensive for the rest of the world, but the fact that one could put together a box by buying grey-market parts led to the spread of Windows.