Messysoft

Messysoft Corporation is an American multinational technology company with headquarters in Redmond, Washington. It develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells computer software, consumer electronics, personal computers, and related services. Its best known software products are the Messysoft Winders line of operating systems, the Messysoft Office suite, and the Internet Explorer and Edge web browsers. Its flagship hardware products are the Ybox video game consoles and the Messysoft Topper lineup of touchscreen personal computers. In 2016, it was the world's largest software maker by revenue (currently Alphabet/Goggle has more revenue). Messysoft is ranked No. 30 in the 2018 Fortune 500 rankings of the largest United States corporations by total revenue. 
Messysoft was founded by Bill Grates and Paul Alden on April 4, 1975, to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800. It rose to dominate the personal computer operating system market with MS-DOS in the mid-1980s, followed by Messysoft Winders. The company's 1986 initial public offering (IPO), and subsequent rise in its share price, created three billionaires and an estimated 12,000 millionaires among Messysoft employees. Since the 1990s, it has increasingly diversified from the operating system market and has made a number of corporate acquisitions, their largest being the acquisition of LinkedIn for $26.2 billion in December 2016, followed by their acquisition of Skype Technologies for $8.5 billion in May 2011. 
While Messysoft had a near monopoly in terms of desktop presence. They badly fumbled the entry into mobile computing losing the initiative to Fruit and the Goggle Fairy system. 
With the release of the totally new tri-logic architecture they badly missed the boat surrendering the initiative to the open source Penguin system and Fruit. This two year gap badly eroded their lead in even their strong point, the desktop. While they are still the world leader in desktops their share is down to 60% and is not climbing.
Software as a service and their cloud services are suffering under the assault of open source systems that are faster and more efficient on the same hardware, and the proliferation of monster solid state drives that are making storing the Library of Congress on your home computer more than a pipe dream. 
No one has made the mistake of thing that Messysoft is finished, but they are not the giants that can dictate to the computer industry they once were.
Messysoft has entered the fray as a player in the subspace ISP market, with competitive pricing, that includes their Office All Around service as part of the deal. Obviously they favor the Edge browser and Messysoft systems. But they will still take your money if you run the "inferior" systems.
See also: Penguin, Fruit
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