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

when he was the one who stole the idear from apple and atariWhy does bill gates get all the credit for creating windows?
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.Why does bill gates get all the credit for creating windows?
Very interesting point if you can reference where you get this fact from.
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.
Because he ownes/ runs the company...
He's the one who created it
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.';
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.. %26amp; one poster is correct .. Gates %26amp; Jobs both lifted the ideas for the GUI %26amp; 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.
Once again someone who knows nothing about Bill Gates, or OS history in that matter
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.
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.
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.
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';.
cause he created it
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.
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
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
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...
While he supposedly stole the idea of the operating system from apple, Windows is his own creation even if its not really his idea
he does not get the credit only the money. read the history
Apple was made or created a after Windows. He made it himself.
Because he created it, Why wouldnt he?
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.