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Microsoft was created, by Bill Gates and Paul Allen.
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Microsoft create their first sell product.
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Microsoft refines and enhances BASIC to sell to other customers including DTC, General Electric, NCR, and Citibank.
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In a letter to Paul Allen, Bill Gates uses the name "Micro-soft" to refer to their (60/40)(3) Partnership. This is the earliest known written reference.
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Their sales extend $ 1 millon.
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Daniel Fylstra writes CalcuLedger and offers it to Apple and Microsoft for $1 million. Both turn him down.
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Ibm approaches Microsoft about a project called chess
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Microsoft, Inc. is incorporated; IBM uses Microsoft's 16-bit operating system for its first personal computer
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Microsoft introduce a new language to the general public.
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Microsoft made a name for itself.
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Microsoft's first wildly successful operating system was MS-DOS or Microsoft Disk Operating System, which Microsoft wrote for IBM based on Tim Paterson's QDOS
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Microsoft, U.K., Ltd. is incorporated.
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Microsoft works on a new operation system called interface.
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Paul Allen resigns as executive vice-president but remains on the board; Jon Shirley is made president of Microsoft (he later becomes CEO); Microsoft introduces the Microsoft Mouse and Word for MS-DOS 1.00.
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Microsoft Mouse was released on.
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End of an era with the resignation of Paul Allen
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Microsoft announces and released Word, Multiplan, File, Chart, BASIC, and other programs.
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Microsoft and IBM forge a joint development agreement.
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The company went public
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Microsoft stock goes public at $21 per share.
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The company's first CD-ROM application, Microsoft Bookshelf, is released.
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They relases Windows 2.0 with desktop icons and expanded memory.
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Microsoft became the worlds largest pc software.
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Microsoft Office was released
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Windows starts to look like the versions to come.
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Jon Shirley retires as president and CEO; Michael R. Hallman is promoted in Shirley's place; the company becomes the first PC software firm to surpass $1 billion of sales in a single year.
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Microsoft announces Windows 3.0, followed shortly by Windows 3.1 in
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The company introduces Windows NT.
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Microsoft releases Windows 95, selling a record-setting 7 million copies in the first five weeks.
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Microsoft releases Flight Simulator for Windows 95
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The company acquires Vermeer Technologies and its software application, FrontPage.
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The Justice Department alleges that Microsoft violated a 1994 consent decree concerning licensing the Windows operating system to computer manufacturers.
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The U.S. Department of Justice files two antitrust cases against Microsoft, alleging the company had violated the Sherman Act.
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Steve billmer becomes the second chief ejecutive officer ofmicrosoft bill gates takes a new role as chief software architect
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The company acquires Visio Corporation, its largest acquisition to date.
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Microsoft introduced their first gaming unit, the Xbox system
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Microsoft Windows XP is released internationally.
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Microsoft launches Windows Server.
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After Windows Vista failed to take hold and since the release of the Apple iPhone in 2007, Microsoft's image as an influential consumer company has faded.
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Gates stepped down from day-to-day responsibilities, leaving Ballmer and his other deputies in charge.
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Windows 7, released in 2009, was the fastest-selling operating system on record, and Microsoft is hard at work on a major refresh with Windows 8.
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Microsoft had about 90,800 employees, including about 40,750 in the Puget Sound area.
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Securityof microsoft wasn´t good.