Who is Ann? 
Bill and Melinda Gates divorce after 27 years of marriage - BBC News
Knowing Human Nature, either Bill has traded in Melinda for a younger model, or Melinda has run off with her Gym trainer.
With a joint Income approximately equal to the USA, we watch with interest. But, TBH, I always thought Windows sucks.
Bill and Melinda Gates divorce after 27 years of marriage - BBC News
Knowing Human Nature, either Bill has traded in Melinda for a younger model, or Melinda has run off with her Gym trainer.
With a joint Income approximately equal to the USA, we watch with interest. But, TBH, I always thought Windows sucks.
Who is Ann?
Before Melinda, he dated Ann Winblad. Still do a week together every year.
Bill and Melinda Gates divorce is ‘not a friendly split,’ sources allege: '''A long time in the making'''
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Ann Winblad - Wikipedia
Of course he has. He wrote MS-DOS on a Mac.
Gates always had a version of Windows running on PowerPC and the developers kit for the Xbox 360 was an Apple Mac G5 with a Windows sticker covering the Apple logo.
MS-DOS 1.0 was released in 1981. The original Macintosh was released in 1984.
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By which time Apple Computers had already been in business for 8yrs and had produced a couple of successful designs, and their own OS. IINM, the original “Classic Macintosh OS” - the first consumer software to feature a GUI and use a mouse/pointer - predated Windows by a year.
The first decade of home & small business computers was a bit of the Wild West, and subject to much revisionist history, and most certainly as to the dynamics of relationships between the two Steves and messers Gates/Allen.
If any single person could be credited for “inventing” what evolved into MS -DOS, that would be Timothy Paterson.
OK, kiddies, time fire up your favorite search engine and selectively curate Internet results to buttress your individual positions.
Most know about the Apple II, released in 1977. I owned one with two floppy drives, which
tended to (and did) burst into flames. That machine did not run MS-DOS, it ran Apple DOS and Basic.
I ran VisiCalc and WordStar on it.
The Apple Lisa, with a Xerox Star-like operating system, was released in 1983. I didn't buy that one.
The original Macintosh was released in 1984, but I didn't buy that one either.
Microsoft Windows 1.0 was released in 1985. However, it was just a menu program that selected
user-installed DOS programs to run. I used it on my IBM AT to run SPICE (in DOS of course),
but Windows 1.0 was pathetic, actually. There were other, much better, menu programs at that time.
tended to (and did) burst into flames. That machine did not run MS-DOS, it ran Apple DOS and Basic.
I ran VisiCalc and WordStar on it.
The Apple Lisa, with a Xerox Star-like operating system, was released in 1983. I didn't buy that one.
The original Macintosh was released in 1984, but I didn't buy that one either.
Microsoft Windows 1.0 was released in 1985. However, it was just a menu program that selected
user-installed DOS programs to run. I used it on my IBM AT to run SPICE (in DOS of course),
but Windows 1.0 was pathetic, actually. There were other, much better, menu programs at that time.
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