{"id":15049,"date":"2019-07-27T23:16:42","date_gmt":"2019-07-27T23:16:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/microsoft-buys-full-rights-to-86-dos-3\/"},"modified":"2019-07-27T23:16:42","modified_gmt":"2019-07-27T23:16:42","slug":"microsoft-buys-full-rights-to-86-dos-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/microsoft-buys-full-rights-to-86-dos-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Buys Full Rights to 86-DOS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1879\" title=\"86-DOS\" alt=\"86-DOS\" src=\"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/bb072__86dos-300x166.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"166\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/86dos-300x166.png 300w, https:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/86dos.png 720w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>July 27, 1981<\/p>\n<p>About two weeks before IBM begins shipping the first IBM PC, Microsoft buys the full rights to the operating system <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/86-DOS\" target=\"_blank\">86-DOS<\/a>, formerly known as QDOS (Quick and Dirty Operating System), from <a title=\"Microsoft Introduces BASIC for 8086\" href=\"http:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/2012\/06\/18\/microsoft-introduces-basic-for-8086\/\" target=\"_blank\">Seattle Computer Products<\/a> for $  50,000. Microsoft had previously paid $  25,000 to SCP for a non-exclusive license in December 1980 in order to begin porting the operating system to the <a title=\"The IBM PC Introduced\" href=\"http:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/2011\/08\/12\/the-ibm-pc-introduced\/\">IBM PC<\/a>, which used the Intel 8088 processor. Microsoft renamed 86-DOS to MS-DOS and licensed it to IBM as PC-DOS. SCP would later sue Microsoft claiming fraud because Microsoft did not reveal IBM as a licensee. The case was settled in SCP&#8217;s favor for 1 million dollars, a fraction of the annual revenue Microsoft was receiving from MS-DOS and PC-DOS.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/07\/27\/microsoft-buys-full-rights-to-86-dos\/\">Microsoft Buys Full Rights to 86-DOS<\/a> is original content of <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\">This Day in Tech History<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/bb072__12696130.gif\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/tracking.feedpress.it\/link\/1823\/12696130\">This Day in Tech History<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tech History provided by This Day in Tech History.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>July 27, 1981 About two weeks before IBM begins shipping the first IBM PC, Microsoft buys the full rights to the operating system 86-DOS, formerly known as QDOS (Quick and Dirty Operating System), from Seattle Computer Products for $ 50,000. Microsoft had previously paid $ 25,000 to SCP for a non-exclusive license in December 1980 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[194],"tags":[1232,414,1230,340,1231],"class_list":["post-15049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today-in-tech","tag-86dos","tag-buys","tag-full","tag-microsoft","tag-rights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15049"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15049\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}