Andrew Bates – Australian

Below is a letter I wrote for an acquaintance that I attended University with in 1989. To date he is in denial.

Below is the letter.

A deal we made was on a handshake and included a sum of money.

For my part in the Brilliant Idea of the EXCEL spreadsheet it was arranged I was to receive a payment of $66,666.66 or $200,000.00 divided by Three. There were Three people involved in the deal, excluding an overseas businessman named Bill.

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To Update 17.02.2026

Who Invented Microsoft?

This overseas businessman I made a deal with is known as Bill Gates, the founder of Windows.

I also assisted with Fonts, Wingdings, Images, the Printer and the name Microsoft.

For example, this was the last I saw of my Dot Matrix Printer with the Perforated Paper. Years later, I no longer needed to use sticky tape and glue to adhere pictures in a document. The documents I started producing looked great with fancy writing like the local newspaper I referred to being The Canberra Times.

I like the writing or font type of this newspaper.

More to come on how I thought of the word, Microsoft.

I made a deal with Bill Gates and have not heard back from him.

I understand a 1% Microsoft share is approximately $28M profit a year.

As mentioned previously I also made a deal with two people I attended University with. I would also like payment from these other two people. Continue below for more information…

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The minimum payment I expect is $500,000.00

Below is my invoice.