Before Microsoft started its Windows OS developement there was a UNIX os by Microsoft jointly owned
by Microsoft and AT&T. This UNIX operating system was named as Microsoft Xenix,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenix This OS is now bought by SCO and called as SCO Unix. So the
software gaint has its roots in the UNIX, before it ventured out with its own OS Windows. The
Microsoft Xenix was the market leader during that time period, So even that OS had rivals and
hatered as the current Windows face. Still microsoft has some links with linux. Microsoft's
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