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Microsoft History

By landpuentbrown

  • The Begining

    Mictosoft was founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen

  • Drop out

    Bill Gates drops out of Harvard. Microsoft is registered with the Office of the Secratery of the state of New Mexico

  • Independent

    Microsoft becomes independent of MITS and continued to produce language software for various systems

  • Moving day

    The company moves from Albuquerque to Bellevue, Washington

  • IBM

    IBM aproched Microsoft to write the BASIC inturpreter for their upcoming computer

  • New President & Chairman

    Gates becomes the new president and chairman of the board of Microsoft

  • Microsft Windows

    Bill Gates anounces the release of Windows

  • Windows 1.0

    Microsoft Windows 1.0 is released and is sold for $100

  • Windows 2.0

    Microsoft Windows 2.0 is relesed and priced at $100

  • Windows 386

    Microsoft releases Windows 386 at $100

  • Windows 286

    Windows 286 introduced and sold at $100

  • Windows 3.0

    Windows 3.0 was released and full version was priced at $149.95. Upgraded version was priced at $79.95

  • Windows NT

    Microsoft changes name of OS/2 to Windows NT in partnership with IBM

  • Windows 3.0a

    Windows 3.0a with multimedia was released

  • Windows 3.1

    Windows 3.1 released and more than 1 million copies were sold withing the first two months of release

  • Windows for Workgroups 3.1

    Windows fo Workgroup 3.1 was released

  • 25 Million

    number of lisensed users totaled 25 million people

  • Windows NT 3.1

    Windows NT 3.1 was released

  • Windows 3.11

    Windows 3.11 an update of 3.1 was released

  • Windows for Workgroups 3.11

    Windows for Workgroups 3.11 was released

  • Windows NT 3.5

    Windows NT 3.5 was released

  • Windows NT 3.51

    Windows NT 3.51 was released

  • Windows 95

    Sells more than 1 million copies in 4 days

  • 4.0

    Windows NT 4.0 released

  • Windows CE 1.0

    Windows CE 1.0 was released

  • CE 2.0

    Windows CE 2.0 was released

  • Future releases

    Windows NT would no longer have the initials NT but would be Windows 2000

  • Windows 98

    Windows 98 was released

  • CE 2.1

    Window released CE 2.1

  • CE 3.0

    CE 3.0 was released

  • Second Edition

    Windows 98 SE was released

  • Pocket PC

    Bill Gates anounces the new windows version of CE will be called Pocket PC

  • Windows 2000

    Microsoft announces Windows 2000

  • Windows XP

    Windows XP is released

  • Windows XP 64-Bit

    Microsoft released Windows XP 64-Bit 2002 Edition

  • Windows Server

    Microsoft intruduces Windows Server 2003

  • Windows XP Media Center

    Microsoft introduces Windows XP Media Center Edition 2003

  • Windows XP Media Center

    Microsoft introduces XP Media Center Edition 2005

  • Windows XP Professional

    Microsoft introduces XP Professional x64 Edition

  • Codename Longhorn

    Windows announces the new product codenamed "Longhorn" which would later be called Windows Vista

  • Windows Vista

    Microsoft introduces Windows Vista to corporations

  • Vista and Office

    Windows Vista and Windows Office is relesed to the public

  • Windows 7

    Windows 7 is released

  • Windows ME

    Microsoft announces Windows Millenium (ME)