Basic History Of Microsoft

1. Microsoft is a multinational computer technology corporation. Microsoft was founded on April 4, 1975, by Bill Gates and Paul Allen in Albuquerque, Mexico. 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.

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. In 1985, IBM requested Microsoft to develop a new operating system for their computers called OS/2. Microsoft produced that operating system, but also continued to sell their own alternative, which proved to be in direct competition with OS/2. Microsoft Windows eventually overshadowed OS/2 in terms of sales. When Microsoft launched several versions of Microsoft Windows in the 1900s, they had captured over 90% market share of the worlds personal computer. 

3. As of June 30, 2015, Microsoft has a global annual revenue of US$86.83 Billion and 128,076 employees worldwide. [3] It develops, manufactures, licenses, and support a wide range of software products for computing devices.

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