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Microsoft corporation is founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen from Harvard college. First program, Altair BASIC is created
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Paul Allen officially joins MITS as director of software
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Allen and Gates name their company Micro-soft, offically forming a partnership together.
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Bill Gates announces Microsoft Windows to be released
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Microsoft Windows 1.0 is introduced and is sold for $100.00
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Microsoft Windows 2.0 is released and is also sold for $100.00
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Windows 386 is released and sold for $100.00
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Windows 286 published, sold for 100 dollars
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Windows 3.0 is released to the public. Full version priced at $149.95, and upgrade version priced at $79.95
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Date Unknown. Following its decision to not cooperate with IBM, they change the program name from OS/2 to Windows NT
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Windows 3.0a is released with multimedia.
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Microsoft Windows 3.1 is released, and sells over 1 million copies in two months
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Licensed users of Microsoft now total over 25 million
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An update to Windows 3.1 is released
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Windows 95 is released, and sells 1 million copies in 4 days
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Microsoft announces that the future release of NT will be called Windows 2000
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Windows 200o was released. Many people bought it.
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Microsoft Windows XP is released
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Gates announces that "Project Longhorn" will be named Windows Vista
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Windows Vista is released to corporations
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Windows 7 is released
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Microsoft buys out video chat company Skype. They sold out for 8.5 billion dollars
