jbailey: A retrospective on 26 years of Microsoft in my life

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It’s interesting to think about Bill Gates retiring. When I think back to how much Microsoft has brought us over the years, both happiness and grief, it’s a bit of a happy/sad end to an era for me.Microsoft is what…

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The History of MS

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Jeff Bailey writes about the last 26 years of Microsoft [1]. He gives Microsoft credit for “saving us from the TRS 80″, however CP/M-86 was also an option for the OS on the IBM PC [2]. If MS hadn’t produced…

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