History of Microsoft: Company timeline & facts [Yahoo! Finance]
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The company revolutionized society by transforming computers from specialized business machines into essential personal tools. By licensing its MS-DOS operating system to IBM in 1980 and later introducing the user-friendly Windows platform, Microsoft fulfilled co-founder Bill Gates' vision of “a computer on every desk and in every home.” But MSFT's beginnings were quite humble: In fact, the trillion-dollar company's creation story began with merely an idea — and an inspiration taken from a magazine cover. A young Bill Gates observes Paul Allen using a teletype machine.Facebook · Facebook Who started Microsoft? The story of Microsoft starts with friendship: In 1968, Bill Gates met Paul Allen at the Lakeside School, a prestigious preparatory school in Seattle, Washington. Gates was only in 8th grade, while Allen was a high school sophomore, but the two immediately connected over their love of computers and even started a programming club. Eager to learn more, over the follo
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