{"id":3398,"date":"2013-07-28T04:36:55","date_gmt":"2013-07-28T04:36:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/microsoft-buys-full-rights-to-86-dos-2\/"},"modified":"2013-07-28T04:36:55","modified_gmt":"2013-07-28T04:36:55","slug":"microsoft-buys-full-rights-to-86-dos-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/microsoft-buys-full-rights-to-86-dos-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Buys Full Rights to 86-DOS"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"post-1878\">\n<div class=\"format_text entry-content\">\n<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\/2013\/07\/3701f__86dos-300x166.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"166\" \/>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:\/\/redirect.viglink.com?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&#038;u=http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2F86-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:\/\/redirect.viglink.com?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&#038;u=http%3A%2F%2Fthisdayintechhistory.com%2F2012%2F06%2F18%2Fmicrosoft-introduces-basic-for-8086%2F\" 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:\/\/redirect.viglink.com?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&#038;u=http%3A%2F%2Fthisdayintechhistory.com%2F2011%2F08%2F12%2Fthe-ibm-pc-introduced%2F\">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\u2019s favor for 1 million dollars, a fraction of the annual revenue Microsoft was receiving from MS-DOS and PC-DOS.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/3701f__p-89EKCgBk8MZdE.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" \/><br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/07\/27\/microsoft-buys-full-rights-to-86-dos\/\">This Day in Tech History<\/a><\/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":2,"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-3398","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\/3398"}],"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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3398\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}