So Microsoft is the biggest software corporation of the world. Everyone should you know because Microsoft have a lot of a good sale product such as …and today Microsoft company control more than 90 country of the world. Microsoft have revenue about four hundred billion and have employee about fifthty seven thousand by the biggest office stay redmon city in washiton united states
Time line
1970
Paul Allen and Bill Gate begin start a small business selling traf data A program that keeps tabs on traffic patterns until
1975
Bill gate and Paul are hired by micro instrumentation and telemetry systems "MITS" to write basic software for their Altair 8800 by MITS Altair 8800 is a microcomputer use with paper tape for input and in same year Gates and Allen form a partnership called Microsoft And the next year officially register microsoft as a bussiness organiza
1981
Microsoft incorporates and buys the rights to the operating system “DOS” from Seattle Computer Products. The system is modified and renamed MS-DOS, and the company licenses it to IBM for the company’s new personal computer.And this year Microsoft becomes a corporation
1983
Microsoft launches the first software name windows 1.0 and Pual Allen leaves Microsoft after developing Hodgkin’s disease
1986
Microsoft’s first common stock is issued. With 45 percent of the 2.7 million shares issued.
- Bill Gates earns US$234 million the first day of trading.
- Bill Gates moves Microsoft’s 1200 employees from Bellevue to new headquarters in Redmond, Washington.
1990
– Microsoft launches Windows 3.0. As a result of its overwhelming popularity – more than 100,000 copies sell in just two weeks and introduces Microsoft office including word and Excel in windows 3.0
1995
Windows 95 launches; it incorporates the web browser Internet Explorer.
- Despite initially understanding the internet’s potential, Bill Gates sends Microsoft executive a memo directing them to focus on developing software for the Internet.
- His fortune pegged at US$12.9 billion, Bill Gates is named by Forbes as the richest man in the world.
1998
– Microsoft launches Windows 98.
- Steve Ballmer becomes president of Microsoft.
2000
– Microsoft launches two separate versions of Windows: 2000
-Bill gate passes his title of ceo to steve ballmer