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The Court of First Instance in Luxembourg upheld penalties imposed in March by the European Commission when it found that Microsoft had abused the virtual monopoly of its computer operating system Windows. Microsoft is now required to sell a version of Windows without the Media Player audio visual ... |
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Microsoft CEO Bill Gates (38) marries Melinda French (29). |
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DOS 2.0, designed for the PC/XT CPU, is released. It supports Unix type subdirectories and installable device drivers. |
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DOS 1.0 is released. This is the initial version that Microsoft developed and enhanced down the road to workplace dominance. It was licensed to IBM as PC-DOS and if acquired from Microsoft directly, it was called MS-DOS. Its original medium was a cassette tape. |
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