whats even more interesting, MS didn't even invent it. they "appropriated" it from a man in seattle for all of $50,000. It was originally called QDOS (Quick and dirty Operating system).

In fact when you get down to it, MS "appropriated" rather a number of items from others (like the mouse from 3M). They didn't even invent the windowing interface (the X desktop existed in UNIX long before 1985) and used CDE). THey only reinvented it for MS-Dos (as well as being the subcontractor for apple when they coded the windowing interface for the Macintosh). ABout the only things that MS did well were a complete office suite and SOme server side applications.

So yes, they have tried to bury Linux, obfuscate where they got a lot of their ideas from and generally been greedy and seeking total control of the OS market. Even to this day, I still will use either a mac or Linux (both have built in accessibility). Windows is too much a pain to properly deal with as a blind computer user (and the accessibility software to make windows work for me is just too damned pricey).

-eric

On Aug 5, 2014, at 8:16 PM, George Toft wrote:

> Nowhere in the article does it say Microsoft wrote/created MS-DOS.  The only error I can see in there is that MS-DOS did not ship on IBM PC's in 1981.  It was just called "DOS" - MS-DOS came out with version 2 when Microsoft changed the OS to a license model and then deployed their own for the clones.  My memory may be getting a bit scrambled as that was over 30 years ago.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> George Toft
> 
> On 7/30/2014 2:36 PM, techlists@phpcoderusa.com wrote:
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>> I just read a bit of it and it appears to be not as factual as when others are saying.  For instance M$ did not create DOS.  They bought it.
>> 
>> On 2014-07-30 15:22, Michael Havens wrote:
>>> http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows/history#T1=era0 [1]
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>>> :-)~MIKE~(-:
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