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Andy, you're way off. IBM outsourced the writing of DOS (Disc Operating System) to Bill Gates and Pau Allen, a.k.a Microsoft. Bill Gates agreed to do so but he would only liscense the rights to IBM instead of allowing IBM to own the rights...thus the name MS-DOS. IBM, thinking that PC's were just a passing fad, didn't put up much of an argument.

The GUI technology for Windows was first created by Xerox in their PARC lab. Steven Jobs of Apple Computer and some of his engineers took a tour of the facility and was impressed with the potential of the GUI based technology. Of course Xerox didn't see much marketability in it. Steve Jobs ordered his engineers to incorporate the technology into the MacIntosh Computer. They also hired Gates and Co. to help write the software for the operating system. Jobs was a little smarter. He required that Gates sign a no-compete clause for a number of years. This is why Windows was introduced a little few years later...rest is history.

BTW Andy Microsoft, Apple, and Hewlet-Packard were all started out of the garage. Look where they are now.