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It's been a bumpy ride since we first kicked off Southwest versus American Airlines, but now we are cruising in for a smooth landing.

Coming up, you'll hear from a journalist who has sat down with major Southwest players from Culling Barrett to Rollin King and even Herb Kelliger himself.

He'll give us some behind the scenes inside into how Southwest rocked the airline industry for decades.

But before you unbuckle your seat belts, let's take a pit stop in Redmond, Washington, shall we? At the headquarters of Tech Giant, Microsoft.

About 20 years back, Bill Gates went way out of the company's comfort zone to take on Sony and Nintendo by getting into the highly competitive and lucrative gaming industry.

For Microsoft, it was a painfully rocky start.

Xbox versus PlayStation, that's our next business war. Come into you later this week.

Boot up your consoles, put on your headsets because this is one battle you won't want to miss.

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But first, let's begin our descent and wrap up Southwest versus American Airlines.

Joseph Guinto is a freelance journalist based in Washington, D.C. He's covered Southwest for more than 20 years and in between.

He's written about topics from politics to food to even men's spandex undergarments, which he did try on for the record.

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