How much money did Bill Gates pay to buy the disk operating system that he turned around and leased to IBM?

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2026-04-03 03:25

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Microsoft purchased an operating system from a small company, reworked it to meet IBM's specifications, renamed it MS-DOs, and charged IBM only $80,000 for a non-exclusive, royalty-free license to use MS-DOS forever.

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