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From: Rich <rich@example.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Happy Birthday, M$.
Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2025 03:17:10 -0000 (UTC)
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c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> wrote:
> On 4/5/25 10:37 PM, rbowman wrote:
>> https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/04/remembering-ms-dos-5-0-my-first-
>> microsoft-product-on-the-companys-50th-birthday/
>> 
>> The article was from yesterday so I missed the celebration on 4/4.  
>> Extra credit for knowing what else started on April 4, 1984.
> 
>   And this birthday would be their questionable purchase of a stolen 
>   Digital Research operating system ?  :-)

This birthday was, I think, their "incorporation day", so it would 
predate that fateful event by a number of years.