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Bill Gates and Paul Allen founded their first company named Traf-O-Data, which tracked and analyzed automobile traffic data.
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Started distributing Altair BASIC, which was an interpreter for the BASIC programming language.
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Microsoft is officially established as a company.
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The company formed an agreement with ASCII Magazine in Japan, resulting in its first international office.
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The company moved to Bellevue, Washington
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Microsoft enters the OS business with their own version of Unix, called Xenix
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Microsoft pushes out MS-DOS, the OS that would make Microsoft popular
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Paul Allen resigns from Microsoft in February after developing Hodgkin's Disease.
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Microsoft releases Microsoft Windows, an extension for MS-DOS.
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Microsoft relocates to Redmond.
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Microsoft goes public (allows investors).
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Microsoft Office is introduced.
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Microsoft released its newest 32-bit OS.
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Microsoft Windows 95 is released.
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Internet Explorer came bundled with Windows 95.
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Microsoft and NBC made a 24/7 cable news station called MSNBC.
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Microsoft is taken to court by the Justice Department for violating an agreement signed in 1994 and attempted to stop the bundling of Internet Explorer and Windows.
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Bill Gates hands over the CEO position to Steve Ballmer, making himself Chief Software Architect.
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Windows XP is released.
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Microsoft releases the Xbox
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Windows Vista is released
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Bill Gates retires as Chief Software Architect.
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Windows 7 is released on the same day the first Microsoft retail store is opened.
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Windows 8 is officially released.
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The Xbox One is released.
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Satya Nadella takes Ballmer's place as CEO of Microsoft