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When anyone
hears the name Microsoft to think of one person: Bill Gates, the founder
of the company. It’s said that Bill Gates is one of the smartest
programmers ever. Bill Gates got inspiredn to create windows from an
article in a electronic magazine. However, in only eight weeks, Bill and
Paul Allen had created the interpreter. The interpreter worked without any
glitches in the demo and MITS was located. On the basis of that, Microsoft was
founded.
The name came
from microcomputer and software coming up with Microsoft. The Microsoft name
was registered with the secretary of state of New Mexico on November 26, 1976.
Microsoft’s first international office was in Japan and found it on November 1,
1978. The name of the international office was ASCII, which is now known as
Microsoft Japan. In January of 1979 the company packed up and moved its
headquarters to Bellevue Washington. Steve Ballmer teamed up with Microsoft in
June of 1980. The company had to restructure in June of 1981 in order to become
an incorporated business in its new home state of Washington. This is when they
changed the name to Microsoft Inc. As part of the restructuring, Bill Gates
became the President of the Company and the Chairman of the Board and Paul
Allen became the Executive VP.
Microsoft
released their first operating system in 1980. It was a variant of Unix.
AT&T acquired the system through a distribution license, calling it Xenix.
They then hired Santa Cruz operation to help to port/adapt the operating system
to several platforms. This variant would become home to the first version of
Microsoft’s word processor. The company went on to produce several other
programs after this one. However, the disk operating system also known as DOS
was the one to bring them true success. In August of 1981 IBM warded a contract
to Microsoft to provide a version of the CP/M. clone called 86 -- TOS. This
deal went down for less than 50,000. IBM then renamed 86-DOS to PC-dos. They
changed the name due to the fact of copyright infringement problems. IBM then
marketed both CP/M.
In 2001
Microsoft entered the PC gaming world with their Xbox system. This was the
first gaming console system to be released in the Gaming Market. The Xbox
ranked second to Sony’s PlayStation 2. The console sold 24 million units
compared to PlayStation 2 at 100 million units. The company took a $4 billion
loss on the console. It was then discontinued in late 2006. In May of
2005, Microsoft unveiled their Xbox 360 gaming console. The console had people
standing out in the cold waiting to get their hands on one for hours. As soon
as they hit the shelves they were sold out completely. As of January
20009 28,000,000 units have been sold worldwide. Today the Xbox 360
is one of the hottest gaming system available on the market today.
we can
wait for more technologies from Microsoft...
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