Windows 7: Bill Gates becomes world’s richest person again

andrew129260 · 06 Jan 2014

At least he does a lot for charity with his billions

MilesAhead · 06 Jan 2014

Quote: Originally Posted by Britton30

I think we would not have what we have today without MS. Ever hear of MS/DOS? That's Microsoft Disk Operating System, Gates wrote it at the behest of IBM because they had no clue or just didn't want to fool with it at the time. Gates' big score was having IBM grant him full rights and ownership to MS/DOS, the seed for Windows.

That's funny. I thought he bought it from Tim Patterson.

andrew129260 · 06 Jan 2014

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Paterson

MilesAhead · 06 Jan 2014

Speaking of activation, royalties, etc.. Do I have to pay a royalty if I post this stolen joke?

"If Bill Gates woke up with Opra Winfrey's money, he'd jump out the window."

But I really don't know who made up the joke. It just seems to be "out there" in the ether.

MilesAhead · 06 Jan 2014

Isn't it weird how times change? With Gates and Allen it seemed to me the original claim to fame with the G.W.Basic interpreter. Now people author AutoHotley, AutoIt3 etc.. and just give them away. :)