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I was fucked by Microsoft

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Fredledingue:
"I've got a better idea. I'm not going to use Windows XP ever, period."

You'r right.
  ;)  I never have to log on W98! read my post above.

Botiemaster:
See this is why this version was made. It's for OEM's that install each copy once on every computer. NEVER buy an OEM version, no matter how cheap it may be, unless you totally plan to never transfer it to another PC. I still wonder what version mine is. I bought it on EBAY. When i called M$ to get it activated (@##^%&@!$%&^*!) i almost couldn't do it cause the lady started talking about i had to contact the seller and get him to write a frickin paper saying he was transfering it to me. She then told me to wait and see if it was still activated and she didn't find anything so she activated me. That must have seem strange, "i bought it on ebay!" I swear they must get that all the time from pirates  :D  BTW WPA is stoopid. And not even that was MS's idea   :rolleyes:  I wonder if they have ever developed something on their own....

Calum:
NO, they did NOT develop basic. I cannot remember who did, but Microsoft were NOT the originators of basic.
If it helps, i'm pedantic enough to find out who it was and post it here, but it really irritates me when even M$' detractors give them credit where credit is not due.

Master of Reality:
DOS wasnt developed by MS either, it was stolen from....(cant remember, but i know they did not origanally develop it)And no they didnt develop basic either. They also stole their windows operating system from IBM when Microsoft broke a deal.

Calum:
they stole the windows concept from APPLE when they broke a deal. I can't remember from whom DOS was filched, but everybody knows it was According to this page here and a whole bunch of others that i found, BASIC was developed at Dartmouth College in 1964.

Addendum:
According to this page, Seattle Computer Products originally made the 86-DOS operating system(also called QDOS, for Quick and Dirty Operating System). It was been written by Tim Paterson earlier in 1980.

[ April 23, 2002: Message edited by: Calum ]

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