http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2008/01/bill_gates_on_his_changing_pub/ the Gadget Guide | Technology and consumer electronics news and reviews Tue, 24 Nov 2009 22:53:43 +1100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2008/01/bill_gates_on_his_changing_pub/comment-page-1/#comment-4002 Keith Thu, 10 Jan 2008 03:50:27 +0000 http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2008/01/bill_gates_on_his_changing_pub.html#comment-4002 <p>Gates is quite the businessman! He kept the copyrights to DOS and so each individual copy sold for each individual machine, originally to IBM, gave him a profit...MS-Windows was simply chapter two, but Gates really made his move back in the days of DOS (Disk Operating Systems). If Jobs had been able to lower the cost of the Apple Machines, perhaps Gates would not have achieved such high revenues for MS-DOS sales (on personal computers). </p> Gates is quite the businessman! He kept the copyrights to DOS and so each individual copy sold for each individual machine, originally to IBM, gave him a profit…MS-Windows was simply chapter two, but Gates really made his move back in the days of DOS (Disk Operating Systems). If Jobs had been able to lower the cost of the Apple Machines, perhaps Gates would not have achieved such high revenues for MS-DOS sales (on personal computers).

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