Information: - CD-R (Compact Disc-Recordable) is a digital optical disc storage format. A CD-R disc is a compact disc that can be written once and read arbitrarily many times. - William Henry "Bill" Gates III (born October 28, 1955) is an American business magnate, entrepreneur, investor, author, and philanthropist. In 1975, Gates and Paul Allen co-founded Microsoft, which became the world's largest PC software company. During his career at Microsoft, Gates held the positions of chairman, CEO and chief software architect, and was the largest individual shareholder until May 2014. Gates has authored and co-authored several books. - Microsoft Corporation (commonly referred to as Microsoft or MS) is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Redmond, Washington, that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports and sells computer software, consumer electronics and personal computers and services. Its best known software products are the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems, Microsoft Office office suite, and Internet Explorer and Edge web browsers. Its flagship hardware products are the Xbox video game consoles and the Microsoft Surface tablet lineup. As of 2016, it was the world's largest software maker by revenue, and one of the world's most valuable companies. - Compact disc (CD) is a digital optical disc data storage format released in 1982 and co-developed by Philips and Sony. The format was originally developed to store and play only sound recordings but was later adapted for storage of data (CD-ROM). Several other formats were further derived from these, including write-once audio and data storage (CD-R), rewritable media (CD-RW), Video Compact Disc (VCD), Super Video Compact Disc (SVCD), Photo CD, PictureCD, CD-i, and Enhanced Music CD. Audio CD players have been commercially available since October 1982, when the first commercially available CD player was released in Japan. - The 7th Guest , produced by Trilobyte and originally released by Virgin Games in 1993 , is an interactive movie puzzle adventure game . It was one of the first computer video games to be released only on CD - ROM. The 7th Guest is a horror story told from the unfolding perspective of the player , as an amnesiac . The game received a great amount of press attention for making live action video clips a core part of its gameplay , for its unprecedented amount of pre-rendered 3D graphics , and for its adult content . In addition , the game was very successful , with over two million copies sold , and is widely regarded as a killer app that accelerated the sales of CD - ROM drives . The 7th Guest has subsequently been re-released on Apple 's app store for various systems such as the Mac. Bill Gates called The 7th Guest '' the new standard in interactive entertainment . '' The game has since been ported in various formats to different systems such as iOS , with Trilobyte mentioning the potential for a third entry in the series . - A CD-ROM is a pre-pressed optical compact disc which contains data. The name is an acronym which stands for "Compact Disc Read-Only Memory". Computers can read CD-ROMs, but cannot write to CD-ROMs which are not writable or erasable. What is the relationship between 'the 7th guest' and 'compact disc'?
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