lexipixel - 7:18 pm on Apr 11, 2008 (gmt 0)

Actually they bought MS-DOS. It was previously called QDOS, until Seattle Computer Products sold it to MS.

If that's true, then the only thing I remember Bill Gates being credited with was writing Altair's BASIC interpreter and developing software called "Traf-O-Data [en.wikipedia.org]" -- which makes (ironic) sense now... how appropriate that he envisioned a way to automate counting "traffic" --- the next logical step was to figure out how to collect money every time someone passes by....