Editing Bill Gates (section)

=== Windows ===
Microsoft and Gates launched their first retail version of [[Microsoft Windows]] on November 20, 1985, in an attempt to fend off competition from [[Apple Inc.|Apple]]'s [[classic Mac OS|Macintosh]] [[GUI]], which had captivated consumers with its simplicity and ease of use.<ref name="ahmwbi">{{cite news |last1=Hartmans |first1=Avery |last2=Weinberger |first2=Matt |title=A history of the decades-long feud between Steve Jobs and Bill Gates, whose love-hate relationship spurred the success of Microsoft and Apple |url=https://www.businessinsider.com/the-bill-gates-steve-jobs-feud-frenemies-2016-3 |agency=Business Insider |publisher=Insider Inc. |date=April 1, 2021 |access-date=April 15, 2021 |archive-date=March 10, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160310142721/https://www.businessinsider.com/the-bill-gates-steve-jobs-feud-frenemies-2016-3 |url-status=live }}</ref> In August 1986, the company struck a deal with [[IBM]] to develop a separate operating system called [[OS/2]]. Although the two companies successfully developed the first version of the new system, the partnership deteriorated due to mounting creative differences.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://groklaw.net/pdf/iowa/www.iowaconsumercase.org/011607/0000/PX00738.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130812161223/http://groklaw.net/pdf/iowa/www.iowaconsumercase.org/011607/0000/PX00738.pdf |archive-date=August 12, 2013 |url-status=live |title=Challenges and Strategy |work=Groklaw |access-date=November 17, 2011}}</ref> The operating system [[Windows 9x#Windows prior to 95|grew out of DOS]] in an organic fashion over a decade until [[Windows 95]], which hid the DOS prompt by default. [[Windows XP]] was released one year after Gates stepped down as Microsoft CEO.<ref name=cnettop>{{cite web | url=https://www.zdnet.com/article/top-10-things-you-must-know-about-win-xp/ | title=The 10 top things you MUST know about Win XP | publisher=[[CNET Networks]] | work=[[ZDNet]] | date=October 25, 2001 | access-date=July 22, 2008 | first=David | last=Coursey | url-status=live | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151208055856/http://www.zdnet.com/article/top-10-things-you-must-know-about-win-xp/ | archive-date=December 8, 2015 }}</ref> [[Windows 8.1]] was the last version of the OS released before Gates left the chair of the firm to [[John W. Thompson]] on February 5, 2014.<ref name=chairex>{{Cite web |last1=David |first1=Javier E |title=Nadella named new Microsoft CEO as Gates era ends |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/business/microsoft-names-satya-nadella-ceo-2D12054182 |website=[[NBCNews.com]] |publisher=[[NBCUniversal]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140205010025/https://www.nbcnews.com/business/microsoft-names-satya-nadella-ceo-2D12054182 |archive-date=February 5, 2014 |date=February 5, 2014}}</ref>