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The Dark Secret of Bill Gates: Microsoft Made Gold Selling Xenix, His Homeless Unix, Before the War Against Linux Begins

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Talking about Microsoft today is the same as talking about Windows and all the tools that wrap up this operating system. However, there is a very unknown part for many.Before becoming the great rival of Linux, Bill Gates' company made gold selling its own Unix. Specifically, Microsoft was for a time one of the largest distributors of Unix in the world. That system was called Xenix, and it was of great relevance in the 1980s for growth in all asp…

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Talking about Microsoft today is the same as talking about Windows and all the tools that wrap up this operating system. However, there is a very unknown part for many.Before becoming the great rival of Linux, Bill Gates' company made gold selling its own Unix. Specifically, Microsoft was for a time one of the largest distributors of Unix in the world. That system was called Xenix, and it was of great relevance in the 1980s for growth in all asp…

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20minutos broke the news in Madrid, Spain on Monday, December 15, 2025.
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