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Microsoft gave up on Xenix/Unix when AT&T took interest in a commercial Unix and exerting influence/control over the direction of Unix.

Microsoft didn't see a profitable future in following AT&T.



See UNIX World magazine from 1985, the Bill Gates interview on the future of Xenix.



Yes, exactly.




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