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> If you ever get tired of puffing and pounding your chest, you can simply look at the fact that MS was able to design Win 7 and 8 to offer “XP mode” to run existing software written for that platform, thus a step obviously can be added to fool the XP applications. That same step could have been patched to the existing platform.

Do you know ANYTHING about what you're spouting off about? The "XP Mode" that came with Win7 was a SEPARATE VIRTUAL MACHINE because it wasn't possible to mix the two safely. Good lord, go look it up, I will not waste my time typing an explanation. Here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Virtual_PC#Windows_XP_Mode

> And Gates didn’t ‘buy’ dos from its owner; he bought the chance to purloin the code from a second party. That is called conspiracy when a second party is the enabler.

What "second party"? Geez, learn your freakin' history of Microsoft and Seattle Computer Products: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle_Computer_Products

"...Microsoft, seeking an operating system for the IBM PC, bought the rights to market the system [QDOS] to other manufacturers for $25,000 that same month. On July 27, 1981, just prior to the August 12 PC launch, Microsoft bought the full rights to the operating system for an additional $50,000,.."

Now please stop making crap up. Or if you still think you're right, provide some reputable citations for your claims.