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Millions of Windows XP disks secretly included Microsoft's failed search assistant to keep pirates at bay — "Bob was actually more useful dead than alive"
Bob resurfaced from Microsoft's Graveyard to pad out the 30MB of free space in Windows XP, keeping pirates at bay.
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Microsoft turns 50: A look back at everything from the Altair to the Zune
It was called the Microsoft Disk Operating System — MS-DOS, for short. A manual required to operate MS DOS, on display at a vintage computer festival in Seattle. In a shrewd business move, Gates and ...
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Microsoft Stock: Innovation Spurs Its 100,000% Return
Microsoft was tasked with creating an operating system for IBM's line of personal computers, for which they developed the Microsoft Disk Operating System (MS-DOS). Profit and prosper with the best ...
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Microsoft turns 50: A look back at everything from the Altair to the Zune
It was called the Microsoft Disk Operating System — MS-DOS, for short. A manual required to operate MS DOS, on display at a vintage computer festival in Seattle. In a shrewd business move ...