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Re:How Microsoft beat Apple to buy PowerPoint for $14M by bdcravens on Friday June 10, 2016 @03:17PM (#11879161)
> Microsoft started (ignore the DOS part) as a company that developed applications for Macintosh

I think you're saying we should ignore the first 10 years of the company. The company started in 1975 creating a BASIC interpreter for the Altair; the first version of Excel for Macintosh was released in 1985.

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Re:How Microsoft beat Apple to buy PowerPoint for $14M by xerxes777 on Saturday June 11, 2016 @10:17AM (#11883520)
Don't forget Xenix - first OS by Microsoft.
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Re:How Microsoft beat Apple to buy PowerPoint for $14M by bdcravens on Saturday June 11, 2016 @07:01PM (#11885796)
sshhh... if you tell HN that Bill Gates built a Unix-based OS before Steve Jobs, it might cause a riot.
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