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What happened in history on this day: September 28?
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Personal Computer history:
- 1980 - At Microsoft, Bill Gates, Paul Allen and Kay Nishi make the final decision to accept the IBM contract to produce languages and an operating system for the new microcomputer.
- 1998 - Microsoft pulls Office 97 Service Release 2 from distribution, to fix reported problems in installation.
- 1998 - Microsoft's Internet Explorer web browser takes the lead over Netscape's Navigator for the first time.
- 2000 - Compaq Computer chairman Benjamin Rosen resigns.
- 2000 - Apple Computer announces it will fall short of revenue and profit expectations for the period July to September. The price of Apple stock drops 52% to US$25.
- 2001 - At a court hearing, Kollar-Kotelly strongly suggests Microsoft and the US Department of Justice settle the antitrust case, rather than proceed in court. The judge gives them until November 2 to settle the case.
- 2004 - Research In Motion announces the BlackBerry 7290 handheld computer in the US. It features GSM/GPRS wireless networking, color screen, 32 MB flash memory, 4 MB SRAM, Price is US$149.
- 2005 - The U.S. Patent Office reaffirms a Web-browsing patent by Eolas Technologies that Microsoft is accused of infringing.
- 2006 - Sony issues a global recall of bad lithium-ion batteries.
Video Game history:
- 1992 - Midway Amusement Games releases the Mortal Kombat video game Version 4.0 to arcades in the US.
- 1994 - Atari and Sega Enterprises settle their lawsuit, with Sega paying Atari US$90 million, in return for 7.4 percent of Atari and rights to 70 Atari patents.
- 2005 - Eidos releases the Total Overdose: A Gunslinger's Tale video game for the PlayStation 2 and Xbox in the US.
- 2010 - Capcom releases the Dead Rising 2 video game for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in the US.
- 2017 - Sidebar Games releases the Golf Story video game for the Switch in the USA.
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