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personal computers they were



                                                                                                                                         creating. Microsoft bought and




                                                                                                                                         developed an operating system



                                                                                                                                         from another company and named



                                                                                                                                         it Microsoft Disk Operating




                                                                                                                                         System (MS-DOS), in 1981.  After



                                                                                                                                         people started to know how well

             one single word. After Microsoft was



             founded, these two smart individuals                                                                                        the product was, other companies



             created new programming languages                                                                                           bought and licensed MS-DOS as




             and retouched BASIC. In 1980, the                                                                                           their operating system.



             International Business Machines                                                                                             Rival operating system makers




             (IBM), asked Microsoft to create                                                                                            were not able to sell their products



             operating systems for the first                                                                                             because MC-DOS were selling

                                                                                                                                         millions of  operating systems
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