Microsoft is such a big company at this point, most people must know about it. They develop, manufacture, and license electronics and software among other things.
Yeah, they were very important in the development of the personal computer.
They were a huge factor in that. They are located in Redmond, Washington.
Bill Gates started the company out of his garage. Steve Jobs also worked there.
Steve Jobs never worked for Microsoft? He started Apple! Also, Microsoft supports and sells PCs and other services.
You are right, I forgot he was working for Apple. Microsoft has a lot of government contracts as well.
by revenue, and one of the world's most valuable companies. The word "Microsoft" is a portmanteau of "microcomputer" and "software". Microsoft is ranked No. 30 in the 2018 Fortune 500 rankings of the largest United States corporations by total revenue.
Microsoft 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
pirated, and commercial software producers were very unhappy at this. Bill Gates, cofounder of Microsoft, was an early moraliser against software piracy with his famous Open Letter to Hobbyists in 1976.
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Before the microcomputer, a successful software program typically sold up to 1,000 units at $50,000–60,000 each. By the mid-1980s, personal computer software sold thousands of copies for $50–700 each. Companies like Microsoft, MicroPro, and Lotus Development had tens of millions of dollars in annual sales. They similarly dominated the