Microsoft history

By Juan C Salcedo

  • it was founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen in Albuquerque.

  • the company moved from Albuquerque to a new home in Bellevue, Washington

  • The first operating system publicly released by the company was a variant of Unix

  • Microsoft's first wildly successful operating system was MS-DOS or Microsoft Disk Operating System, which Microsoft wrote for IBM

  • Microsoft Mouse was released

  • Microsoft Press, a book publishing division

  • Microsoft released its first retail version of Microsoft Windows (Windows 1.0)

  • the company went public

  • Microsoft Works, saw its first release as an application for the Apple Macintosh

  • Microsoft also continued its trend of rebranding products from other companies, such as Microsoft SQL Server

  • Microsoft would introduce its most successful office product, Microsoft Office.

  • Microsoft launched Windows 3.0.

  • Bill Gates announced that the OS/2 partnership was over

  • marked the founding of Microsoft Research

  • Microsoft released Windows 3.1

  • Windows for Workgroups 3.1 was released with integrated networking abilities

  • Microsoft released the first version of their popular database software Microsoft Acce

  • Windows had become the most widely used GUI operating system in the world.

  • marked the end of a five-year copyright infringement legal case brought by Apple Computer

  • The company released Microsoft Bob, a graphical user interface designed for novice computer users

  • Internet Explorer was first included in the Windows 95 Plus! Pack

  • Microsoft released Microsoft Windows 95 was released without a web browser as Microsoft had not yet developed one.

  • launched a major online service, MSN (Microsoft Network),

  • the release of Windows NT 4.0, which brought the Windows 95 GUI and Windows NT kernel together.

  • , Microsoft Office 97 as well as Internet Explorer 4.0 were released

    and by agreement with Apple Computer, Internet Explorer was bundled with the Apple Macintosh operating system as well as with Windows

  • The company released an update to the consumer version of Windows, Windows 98

  • Microsoft released an update to its business line of software in Windows 2000.

  • , the company released a new version of its hand-held operating system, Windows CE 3.0.

  • Microsoft released Windows XP and Office XP

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