Microsoft history
Today we are going to know about the success of the founder of Microsoft.Microsoft odds are that if you have used a computer, played video games,made a video call or just gone on the Internet then at some point in your life you have used a Microsoft product.
Today this company has become a trillion dollar company but like with most large companies this story started out with very humble beginnings. In fact it started out with a couple of teenagers in high school. This is the story of Microsoft "1968 lakeside school Seattle".
four students at this school had drawn interest towards their school's new computers one of these computers was called the "teletype model33".
they wanted to use this new machine to build computer programs like play tic-tac-toe or even make their own class schedules but they need to give rent of $40 to you use computers.
So, they exploit some bugs in these computer systems in order to use the computers for free. The computer center corporation caught them stealing computer usage time and the company immediately banned these students from using their computer systems.
the four students that were banned were named "Kent Evans" ,"Rick Weil" and "Paul Allen" and "Bill Gates soon after they were banned they decided to form their own group called the lakeside programmers club inorder to make some money from their programming abilities the club's first customer was the computer center corporation the very same company that banned them several years later a 17-year old 'Bill Gates' and a '19-year old 'Paul Allen' made a new venture together called 'truffaut data'.
which used the newest 'Intel processor' to turn raw traffic data into comprehensive and easy to read reports the business didn't last very long because Bill Gates left to Harvard University' to enroll in 'pre-law program' and Paul Allen left for 'Washington State University' to pursue a computer science degree in 1975 .a new computer launched 'Altair 8800 microcomputer' this was viewed as the first commercially successful personal computer.now both Paul Allen and Bill Gates had caught a glimpse of the Altair issue .
They decided to make a basic programming language interpreter for the computer . So they talk to the inventors of the Altair who were MITs. MITs was quite interested and wanted this interpreter. MITs agreed to sell gates and Alan's interpreter product as Altair basic little did the two college students know that this would be the very first product that was created by their newly named company called microcomputer. software known today as Microsoft.After couple of years Altair basic made this company a multi-million dollar company.After that Microsoft prepared spreadsheet program with graphical user interface called exel.
After that Microsoft released Windows 1.0 in order to compete with Apple's operating system however Windows 1.0 wasn't a complete product and gained very little popularity at the time.
After that company released Powerpoint . company finally felt like they had enough individual software products to launch a package of these products called Microsoft Works today known as microsoft office.
include Microsoft Word Excel PowerPoint and a few other applications this package was also the first Microsoft product that was truly cross-platform and was available on a variety of computers like Apple the success of Microsoft Office along with the growth of Windows and Microsoft as a whole made Bill Gates a billionaire.
Microsoft would continue to grow expand its product line and release new versions of Windows every single year.in 1995 when Microsoft released Windows 95 to the public Windows 95 was viewed as a revolutionary software product for its time and it is known by many as the birth of modern day operating systems it was also responsible for one of the largest marketing campaigns in computer history
.Company spent three hundred million dollars leading up to the launch of Windows 95.
microsoft has prepared 1.5 million copies of windows 98.marketing of windows 98 become a success as the company sold 1 million copies within four days.Also microsoft launched a news channel which was 50% owns by microsoft.Microsoft national broadcasting channel also known as MSNBC was launched in 1996.also the company created internet browser called Internet Explorer also they invested five hundred million dollars in a new and unproven startup company called DreamWorks they bought out nearly 10% of Apple while making Microsoft products available on Apple they created a few smaller subsidiaries like MSN and Expedia in 1996.
microsoft's valuation had nearly quadrupled to 261 billion dollars while making Bill Gates the richest person in the world however this all came at a cost you see Microsoft was packaging its Internet Explorer browser with all of its Windows operating systems while allegedly pressuring all other computer.
Microsoft launched the Xbox Windows XP and the programming languages dot net and c-sharp which are used to program many websites and modern-day video games.
in 2003 Microsoft launched its mobile operating system that was called Windows Mobile.But due to someone's unique idea microsoft mobile was not popular for a long time.
Also company launched Windows Vista Windows 7 Bing Xbox 360 Xbox Live Microsoft Surface Microsoft Outlook and Microsoft Azure they also acquired some big companies at the time like Skype and Nokia now when 2013 came around company was still worth hundreds of billions of dollars but it was becoming more of a backseat thought to the other tech companies like Google,Apple,Facebook,Netflix and Amazon.
Steve Ballmer decided to step down as microsoft CEO and appoint Satya Nadella as the new CEO of the company and right after he became CEO the company decided to purchase a gaming company called Mojang who are the creators of Minecraft.
The company also decided to purchase the programming platform GitHub as well as the social network LinkedIn.Satya was laser focused on one part of Microsoft's business cloud computing .
the growth of Azure that has made Microsoft one of the leading cloud computing companies in the world behind Amazon because of the success of Azure along with Microsoft's other businesses. Microsoft was able to reclaim the title of the most valuable company in the world in 2019.
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