who owns the company which developed it?
Bill Gates and Paul Allen
Microsoft
Microsoft (the word being a portmanteau of "microcomputer software") was founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen on April 4, 1975, to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800. It rose to dominate the personal computer operating system market with MS-DOS in the mid-1980s, followed by Microsoft Windows. 
windows server 2012 r2 datacenter vs windows server 2012 r2 standard UNANSWERABLE what is this windows server 2012? It is the fifth version of the Windows Server operating system by Microsoft, as part of the Windows NT family of operating systems. how was it received among the users? Many business users are sticking with what the have due to lack of exchange. are there any updates in its task manager? In the new version the tabs are hidden by default, showing applications only. when was it launched? September 4, 2012
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Microsoft [SEP] Introduction
Microsoft (the word being a portmanteau of "microcomputer software") was founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen on April 4, 1975, to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800. It rose to dominate the personal computer operating system market with MS-DOS in the mid-1980s, followed by Microsoft Windows. The company's 1986 initial public offering (IPO), and subsequent rise in its share price, created three billionaires and an estimated 12,000 millionaires among Microsoft employees. Since the 1990s, it has increasingly diversified from the operating system market and has made a number of corporate acquisitions, their largest being the acquisition of LinkedIn for $26.2 billion in December 2016, followed by their acquisition of Skype Technologies for $8.5 billion in May 2011.