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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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