Allen bought the magazine and rushed to Currier House at Harvard College, where he showed it to high school friend Bill Gates. In late 1974, Paul Allen, a programmer at Honeywell, was walking through Harvard Square when he saw the cover of the January 1975 issue of Popular Electronics that demonstrated the Altair 8800, the first microcomputer. 1975–1985: The founding of Microsoft Īltair 8800 computer with the popular Model 33 ASR Teletype as terminal, paper tape reader, and paper tape punch. It develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of software products for computing devices. When Microsoft launched several versions of Microsoft Windows in the 1990s, they had captured over 90% market share of the world's personal computers.Īs of June 30, 2015, Microsoft has a global annual revenue of US$86.83 Billion and 128,076 employees worldwide. Microsoft Windows eventually overshadowed OS/2 in terms of sales. Microsoft produced that operating system, but also continued to sell their own alternative, which proved to be in direct competition with OS/2. In 1985, IBM requested Microsoft to develop a new operating system for their computers called OS/2. In 1980, Microsoft formed a partnership with IBM to bundle Microsoft's operating system with IBM computers with that deal, IBM paid Microsoft a royalty for every sale.

Its current best-selling products are the Microsoft Windows operating system Microsoft Office, a suite of productivity software Xbox, a line of entertainment of games, music, and video Bing, a line of search engines and Microsoft Azure, a cloud services platform. Microsoft was founded on April 4, 1975, by Bill Gates and Paul Allen in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Microsoft is a multinational computer technology corporation.

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