why does bill gates get all the credit for creating windows?

Question

when he was the one who stole the idear from apple and atari

Answer 1

Bill Gates didn't create Windows--the people working for his company created it. Some of these people had been working for Xerox PARC but got frustrated with Xerox's lack of interest in this new mouse-driven graphical user interface. Most of the Xerox GUI UI team left Xerox and split up to join Digital Research (and created GEM, a product I supported at DRI), Apple (and created the MacIntosh), and Microsoft (where they created Windows--a product I supported while working at Microsoft in '86).



All of these GUI UIs were derived from the same work done at XEROX--work that Xerox never considered as being theirs. They actually licensed GEM back from DRI (I was there when the contracts were signed).



Get your facts right before you go bashing Bill Gates.

Answer 2

He may as well, he did and I didn't!!



Although Bill Gates is known mostly for his founding of Microsoft he also has done a number of programming jobs before becoming the worlds richest man. Bill Gates first programming job would be when he offered the principle at his high school a timetable organizer that would be more efficient and easier to use than what the principle had previously been using. Little did Gates' principle know that Bill had created the program to his own benefit... Bill was going to be in all the pretty girls classes. Bill's second job was a summer's work programming in which he earned 4200 dollars. At the age of fourteen Bill Gates and his programming buddy thought up the idea for a traffic counting computer which would later be named 'Traf- o-Data' and earn them 20 000 dollars. But when word got around that the computers were being sold out of a basement by a couple of teens the business fell through. Gates also worked as a Congressional Page and at a programming company called 'TRW'. After dropping out of Harvard Gates created the first basic operating language for the computer. Although Gates has programmed a number of programs he is still going strong at it and is programming as I write this.

Answer 3

The graphical OS was a long way coming before Bill Gates

and Steve Jobs (Apple Mac). Apple were the first to

come up with something usable and when Windows

came out there was that court case which said he

had "ripped-off" Apple.



As for I'm concerned the Windowing concept was born

back in the 1970s with the likes of Xerox and something

called the "Spice project".

Answer 4

For the same reason you probably don't know who Tesla is, because that is the way it is written in the history books.



Go out and the movie Pirates of Silicon Valley.. & one poster is correct .. Gates & Jobs both lifted the ideas for the GUI & mouse from Xerox PARC. The OS Bill created was a rip off from CP/M - when he sold IBM an OS, he really didn't even have one. IBM's mistake was thinking hardware was the end all be all and letting Bill keep the OS / software.

Answer 5

He never got credit for developing windows. And is wasn't from Atari or Apple. The original X windows standard, as it was called, was created at MIT Lincoln labs in conjunction with Xerox and Digital Equipment Corp.

In fact Microsoft didn't create the first PC operating system we knew as MS DOS. It was bought by Microsoft and they added enhancements and eventually Windows.

Answer 6

Sams says he did get together with Kildall in Pacific Grove a short time later, but they couldn't reach an agreement. At around the same time, he saw Gates again. He and Gates both knew of the operating system Paterson had built at Seattle Computer Co. As Sams recounts, "Gates said: 'Do you want to get [QDOS], or do you want me to?' I said: 'By all means, you get it."' Gates bought Paterson's program, called QDOS, for $50,000, renamed it DOS, improved it, and licensed it to IBM for a low per-copy royalty fee.



THE SHOUTING



It wasn't until nearly a year later that Kildall discovered that Gates, a longtime friend, had plucked the plum software deal out of his grasp. IBM sent test versions of its PC out shortly before it was announced in August, 1981, and a consultant working for DRI noticed the operating system was remarkably similar to CP/M. The consultant, Andy Johnson-Laird, remembers that Kildall looked at the screen and was stunned. "There were some shallow changes, but it was essentially the same program," says Johnson-Laird in an interview with BusinessWeek.

Answer 7

God has gifted bill gates with the knowledge to create windows so we all should be thankful to God for the technological advantages it brought us . it's all about how we use that technology for good purposes so we dont play into devil's hand. of course so many r using it badly for destructive knowledge .God is the judge as He alone is perfect &He alone can judge anyone whether it's billgates or anyone

Answer 8

This person holds a good point.. Bill Gates did steal the information. He took it from Steve Jobs who later created Apple.



But Bill Gates did something Steve Jobs didn't do, he patented the software. He stole an idea and made it his.



Why he gets credit? He has created some great add-ons to make Microsoft and Windows great systems to use.. other than that, he's a thief.

Answer 9

Once again someone who knows nothing about Bill Gates, or OS history in that matter

Answer 10

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Answer 11

bill gates is a business man who saw an opportunity and took it he did not make anything he bought doss and leased it to IBM the money he made he invested in Microsoft

but love him or hate him he is one of the best business men of our time and good luck to him

Answer 12

The leader of anything and owner always gets the credit. He puts the team together.

I notice that he does not take credit for the flaws.

Answer 13

He created it that is why he dropped out of Harverd to start what we all use today Microsoft and now he is a billionaire

Answer 14

I KNOW! I am sure I read in history that they used to have 'windows' in houses before Gates was even born! I think he is on very dubious territory with his 'claim' to have invented them...

Answer 15

cause he's the boss who created it.....look at this hilaaarious joke!!!!!



Two guys are walking through the woods and come across this big deep hole.



"Wow...that looks deep." "Sure does... toss a few pebbles in there and see how deep it is."



They pick up a few pebbles and throw them in and wait... no noise "Geeez. That is REALLY deep... here.. throw one of these great big rocks down there. Those should make a noise."



They pick up a couple football-sized rocks and toss them into the hole and wait... and wait. Nothing.



They look at each other in amazement. One gets a determined look on his face and says, "Hey...over here in the weeds, there's a railroad tie. Help me carry it over here. When we toss THAT sucker in, it's GOTTA make some noise."



The two drag the heavy tie over to the hole and heave it in. Not a sound comes from the hole.



Suddenly, out of the nearby woods, a goat appears, running like the wind. It rushes toward the two men, then right past them, running as fast as its legs will carry it. Suddenly it leaps in the air and into the hole.



The two men are astonished with what they've just seen... Then, out of the woods comes a farmer who spots the men and ambles over.



"Hey... have you two guys seen my goat out here?"



"You bet we did! Craziest thing I've ever seen! It came running like crazy and just jumped into this hole!"



"Nah", says the farmer, "That couldn't have been MY goat. My goat was chained to a railroad tie."

Answer 16

Apple was made or created a after Windows. He made it himself.

Answer 17

He's the one who created it

Answer 18

The mouse may be a different matter so why don't you ask why he stole that idea? As for windows, not sure you are right there.

Answer 19

While he supposedly stole the idea of the operating system from apple, Windows is his own creation even if its not really his idea

Answer 20

Apple and Atari "stole" it from Xerox. This little "Apple did it first" crusade is based not facts but the first place YOU saw it.

Answer 21

he does not get the credit only the money. read the history

Answer 22

Because he created it, Why wouldnt he?

Answer 23

Because he ownes/ runs the company...

Answer 24

Very interesting point if you can reference where you get this fact from.

Answer 25

cause he created it