Microsoft timeline
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Bill Gates and Paul Allen form partnership called Micro-Soft
While at Harvard, he met his future business partner, Steve Ballmer, whom he later appointed as CEO of Microsoft. He also met computer scientist... Read more
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Microsoft opens first international office in Japan
The company's first international office was founded on November 1, 1978, in Japan, titled "ASCII Microsoft" (now called "Microsoft... Read more
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Microsoft moves headquarters to Bellevue, Washington
Microsoft became independent of MITS in late 1976, and it continued to develop programming language software for various systems.[27] The company... Read more
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Microsoft partners with IBM to wrtie the BASIC for the IBM PC
In 1980, IBM approached Microsoft to write the BASIC interpreter for its upcoming personal computer, the IBM PC. When IBM's representatives... Read more
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Microsoft becomes incorporated and Bill Gates becomes President
Gates oversaw Microsoft's company restructuring on June 25, 1981, which re-incorporated the company in Washington and made Gates President of... Read more
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Microsoft Releases Windows Version 1.0
On November 20, 1985, two years after the initial announcement, Windows ships Windows 1.0. Now, rather than typing MS‑DOS commands, you just move a... Read more
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Apple Computer, Inc. v. Microsoft Corporation is Decided in Favor of Microsoft
Apple Computer, Inc. v. Microsoft Corporation, 35 F.3d 1435 (9th Cir. 1994) was a copyright infringement lawsuit in which Apple Computer, Inc. (now... Read more
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United States v. Microsoft Trial
United States v. Microsoft was a set of consolidated civil actions filed against Microsoft Corporation pursuant to the Sherman Antitrust Act on May... Read more
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Microsoft Is Declared A Monopoly
Over 1999 and early 2000, the U.S. Federal Reserve had increased interest rates six times, and the economy was beginning to lose speed. The dot-com... Read more
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Microsoft Releases Xbox in North America
The Xbox is a sixth-generation video game console produced by Microsoft. It was Microsoft's first foray into the gaming console market, and... Read more
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Microsoft Releases Xbox 360
The Xbox 360 is the second video game console produced by Microsoft, and the successor to the Xbox. The Xbox 360 competes with Sony's PlayStation 3... Read more
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"Developers" - Steve Ballmer Pumps Up the Volume
Footage featuring Ballmer's flamboyant stage appearances at Microsoft events have been widely circulated on the Internet, becoming viral videos.... Read more
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Bill Gates Steps Down from Daily Duties
William Henry "Bill" Gates III (born October 28, 1955) is an American business magnate, philanthropist, and chairman of Microsoft, the software... Read more
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Microsoft announces motion control at E3 2009
A planned camera controller for Xbox 360 promises 3-D motion recognition that will turn your entire body into a game controller. Code-named... Read more
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Google plans to introduce PC operating system
In a direct challenge to Microsoft, Google announced late Tuesday that it is developing an operating system for PCs that is tied to its Chrome Web... Read more
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Bill Gates, Melinda Gates, and Warren Buffett Announce 'The Giving Pledge'
Bill Gates, Melinda Gates, and Warren Buffett are asking the nation's billionaires to pledge to give at least half their net worth to charity, in... Read more
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Windows Phone 7 Launch
Windows Phone 7 is a mobile operating system developed by Microsoft, and is the successor to its Windows Mobile platform. It is aimed at the... Read more
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Microsoft Kinect Launches in North America
Microsoft is gearing up for a massive marketing push to launch Kinect -- a controller-free Wii-killer for the Xbox -- and blow away the competition... Read more