Happy Birthday Microsoft
In January 1975, friend Paul Allen rushed to Bill Gates, handing a number of popular electronic magazines. On the cover of that number there was a picture of Altere 8800 computer. Alan proposed the creation of a programming language basic interpreter for the computer. Along with Bill Gates, Altere's company MITS has contacted. Since the beginning On April 4 of that year, Allen and Gates gave Microsoft an institutionalized look. Today the organization is 43 years old.
Microsoft wanted to start many of the current technologies. There is also instant translation (real-time translation), tablet computer and Internet connected TV. Even the 'tablet' sound is also launched by Microsoft. But at the end, those technologies did not see the light of the hands of Microsoft.
In 1994, Microsoft created a 'Datelink 150' model clock with the timepiece of watch maker Timex. That was the first smart watch.
In 1997, Microsoft saved the rival Apple from almost guaranteed bankruptcy by investing 15 million dollars.
Microsoft's first commercially successful product is Excel. The software came topped by Apple's physics and Lotus 1-2-2-3. In other words, if Microsoft did not have Excel, then maybe nothing would have been possible.
At the time of the IPO in 1986, Microsoft was evaluated for 77.7 million dollars (source: Fortune). According to the evening yesterday, in 43 years it has increased about 877 times.
In 1987, at the age of 31, co-founder Bill Gates made the billionaire billion of the time. In 1995, he became the richest person in the world with $ 1 billion worth of wealth.
The rise of Microsoft has created 3 billionaires and more than 12,000 million employees.
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