Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and the creator of Linux, Linus Torvalds, finally met in person at a friendly dinner.

This week we’re going back to the early 80s. On this day — June 24 — in 1981, Microsoft quietly licensed a little operating system called MS-DOS to IBM. It wasn’t big news at the time, but it would ...

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