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Bill Gates and Paul Allen founded Microsoft. [1] As a result of Microsoft's founding, Traf-O-Data became defunct. 1975 April 4 Products Microsoft released its first product which is called the Altair BASIC. 1978: November 1: International: The company's first international office was founded on November 1, 1978, in Japan, entitled "ASCII ...
Microsoft is a multinational computer technology corporation. Microsoft was founded on April 4, 1975, by Bill Gates and Paul Allen in Albuquerque, New Mexico. [1] 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 ...
Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational technology conglomerate headquartered in Redmond, Washington. [2] Founded in 1975, the company became highly influential in the rise of personal computers through software like Windows, and the company has since expanded to Internet services, cloud computing, video gaming and other fields.
Microsoft IPO Investors got their first taste of Microsoft back in March 1986 when the company, already a powerhouse in the tech world, raised $61 million in an IPO under the leadership of 30-year ...
Steve Jobs was a 21-year-old college dropout when he founded Apple. 20-year-old Bill Gates launched Microsoft, and Mark Zuckerberg was 19 when he first came up with the idea of Facebook.
In June 2018, Gates offered free ebooks, to all new graduates of U.S. colleges and universities, [162] and in 2021, offered free ebooks, to all college and university students around the world. [ 163 ] [ 164 ] The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation partially funds OpenStax , which creates and provides free digital textbooks. [ 165 ]
On December 31, 1997, Microsoft acquired Hotmail.com for $500 million (~$882 million in 2023), its largest acquisition at the time, and integrated Hotmail into its MSN group of services. [3] Hotmail, a free webmail service founded in 1996 by Jack Smith and Sabeer Bhatia, [4] had more than 8.5 million subscribers earlier that month. [5]
Word 5.1, Excel 4.0, PowerPoint 3.0, Mail 3.1 August 2, 1994 Office 4.2 Word 6, Excel 5, PowerPoint 4, Mail 3.2. 1994 Office 4.2.1 Word 6, Excel 5, PowerPoint 4, etc. First release designed for the PowerPC, final release for m68k. March 25, 1998 Office 98 (8.0) Word, Excel, PowerPoint 98 October 11, 2000 Office 2001 (9.0