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You're right, but the Gates story is a little off. He grew up in Westchester County, NY near Armonk, IBM world headquarters. His parents hobnobbed with the execs there. Mom got Billy, a student in Seattle at the time, the gig of supplying the OS for the then being developed IBM PC. She supplied him with the money to buy QDOS (Quick & Dirty Operating System) from some hackers in Seattle for resale to IBM.
Since IBM was a hardware company, the geniuses running the place thought renting would be a better idea! After rebranding it Disk Operating System, they gave Gates his first check while at the same time handing him Microsoft's first product. Essentially creating a monopoly from the get go.
Thanks. I never reqlly paid attention to his early background until recently that he came out as Dr Evil and realized he was deeply connected to a lot of other Evil.
What went around in Silicon Valley at the time was that Digital Research was contacted prior to MS. The owner of DR wouldn't cowtow to the whims of ibm, which included junk intended to contribute to the need for virus control etc in the future. I used both MSDOS and DRDOS; DR was far superior in all respects.
And, of course you already know that the versions of windows include many means of external access, including the intel i series, that allow windows control over all versions from 8 on. That, friends and neighbors, was intentional; the ONLY reasonably secure version was Win2000, which was discontinued when eXended Pay appeared.
And that is why I use linux exclusively, with the exception of a sound lab, since replaced by linux versions for the most part. And when I do use that, I disconnect internet. Everything in house is hard wired. Been around too long to allow unintended access to my stuff. Yeah, yeah, I'm sort of stone age. On the other hand....