Microsoft buys MS-DOS, Malaysia considers quick divorces and coaching software testers webinar with Anne-Marie Charrett. All on today’s On This Day from TestHuddle.
1981 – Microsoft buys MS-DOS
Microsoft buys the rights to 86-DOS from Seattle Computer Products. Orginally named 86-DOS, MS-DOS became the most popular of the DOS family and was the primary operating system in IBM personal computers through the 1980’s and 1990’s. Microsoft, which did not have its own operating system and needed one for the then new Intel 8086 hired Tim Paterson in May 1981 from Seattle Computer Products and bought 86-DOS 1.10 from the company for $75,000.
1997 – Malaysia considers quick divorces
In the first move of its kind, an Islamic court in Malaysia allows a divorce to stand where the man initiated the divorce through text message. This ruling was endorsed by the Prime-Ministers’s office but soon after the government re-considers this decision.The week before this decision a sharia court in the country declared that a text message sent by a man to his wife reading “if you don’t leave your parents house, you’ll be divorced”, had legal force.
2012 – Coaching Software Testers – Webinar with Anne-Marie Charrett
On this day in 2012, Anne-Marie Charrett hosted a webinar on a coaching style she has developed with James Bach, and offers examples from coaching sessions that demonstrate the coaching style she uses as well as giving insights as to how this coaching helps to motivate and eventually liberate the tester. View the webinar here.
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