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Founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen in Albuquerque, New Mexico
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Microsoft's first successful operating system that was made for IBM during their deal with them
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Microsoft released it's first retail version of the now popularly used Windows
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Microsoft's first release of the very popular bundle of three programs:
-Microsoft Word
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Microsoft released the update to their first version of windows titled, Windows 3.0
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The operating system created by Microsoft called windows had become one of the highest used Operating system in the world
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Internet Explorer was first introduced into a pack for windows 95. It would go on to be a widely used internet browser.
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This date marked the announcment of the new CEO for microsoft, Steve ballmer
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Microsoft released updates to two of there biggest products, the windows operating system and microsoft office
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This day marked the creation of the very popular subdivision of Microsoft, Xbox. This subdivision would go on to created many video game consoles for consumers
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This date marked the announcment of microsofts moblie version of windows that could be used on smartphones
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This day marked the release of Microsoft's own search engine, Bing. Although it is not as popular as google's search engine, it is still used by some.
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There have been many updates beforehand but none have been as big for windows as windows 7 was. Many people today still use it because they see it as the best that windows has to offer
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Probably the general publics least favorite version of windows, windows 8. Microsoft has since come out and said that windows 8 was not the best
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This is the current version of windows that is released to the general public at this time
