well, Top row: Steve Wood (left), Bob Wallace, Jim Lane. Middle row: Bob O'Rear, Bob Greenberg, Marc McDonald, Gordon Letwin. Bottom row: Bill Gates, Andrea Lewis, Marla Wood, Paul Allen. December 7, 1978.
Microsoft co-founder and chairman Bill Gates, was awarded an honorary knighthood by Britain's Queen Elizabeth on Wednesday for his outstanding contribution to enterprise.
When the knighthood was announced last year (it's the British Prime Minister who approves the selection rather than the Queen) Foreign Secretary Jack Straw said:"(Gates) is one of the most important business leaders of his age. Microsoft technology has transformed business practices and his company has had a profound impact on the British economy."
Bill Gates is certainly one of the significant businessmen of our age but it is often claimed that he and his colleagues were more brilliant at execution than invention. In a recent feature on Apple in the US magazine BusinessWeek, Steve Jobs said that Microsoft's Windows software had been copied from Mac software.
Analysis/Comment Last Updated: Dec 19th, 2007 - 13:17:15
Apple operating system
* Apple II
o Apple DOS
o ProDOS
+ GS/OS
* Apple III
o SOS (Sophisticated Operating System)
* Lisa OS
* Macintosh
o Mac OS
+ System Software 1
+ System Software 2
+ System Software 3
+ System Software 4
+ System Software 5
+ System Software 6
+ System 7 (code-named "Big Bang")
+ Mac OS 8
+ Mac OS 9
o Unix-like
+ A/UX
+ MkLinux
+ Mac OS X
# Mac OS X v10.0 (aka Mac OS X 10.0 "Cheetah")
# Mac OS X v10.1 (aka Mac OS X 10.1 "Puma")
# Mac OS X v10.2 (aka Mac OS X 10.2 "Jaguar")
# Mac OS X v10.3 (aka Mac OS X 10.3 "Panther")
# Mac OS X v10.4 (aka Mac OS X 10.4 "Tiger")
# Mac OS X v10.5 (aka Mac OS X 10.5 "Leopard")
# Mac OS X Server.
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