The local time in the United States is the 46th anniversary of the founding of Microsoft Corporation. Microsoft’s official tweeted celebration content: Microsoft was founded on April 4, 1975. #NewProfilePic and banners to help us celebrate 46 years of style.
In 2019, Bill Gates said on Twitter, “When Paul and I founded Microsoft together, we believed that computers would change the world. But we never imagined how happy we would be along the way.” April 4, 2021, On this day, Bill Gates did not speak.
On October 16, 2018, Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen died at the age of 65 due to complications of non-Hodgkins lymphoma (NHL). Microsoft is a multinational computer technology company in the United States, focusing on R&D, manufacturing, licensing, and providing a wide range of computer software services. Headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA.
The most famous and best-selling products are the Microsoft Windows operating system and Microsoft Office office software, as well as the Xbox gaming business, and the Azure cloud computing business. The company was founded on April 4, 1975, by Bill Gates and Paul Allen.
Microsoft was founded on April 4, 1975. #NewProfilePic and banner to help us celebrate our 46 years in style. 🎉 pic.twitter.com/oWym4uDi2R
— Microsoft (@Microsoft) April 4, 2021
In the early days, it mainly developed and sold BASIC interpreters for Altair 8800. In the mid-1980s, MS-DOS made great progress in the home computer operating system market with MS-DOS. Later, the emergence of Windows enabled Microsoft to gradually dominate the home desktop computer operating system market.
Along with this, Microsoft also started to expand its business, enter other industries and markets, and created the MSN website. In the computer hardware market, Microsoft trademarks and Xbox game consoles, Zune, and MSN TV home entertainment devices also appeared on the market in different years. Microsoft’s initial public offering in 1986 and the rising stock price since then has created four billionaires and 12,000 millionaires for Microsoft.
Previously under the research and development of Microsoft Corporation, classic systems like Windows XP and Windows 7 were born, but major failure systems similar to Windows Vista also appeared. After 2011, Microsoft introduced Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 to the market, but eventually Windows 10 Mobile will stop supporting it in December 2019.
Microsoft continued to develop new hardware devices such as Surface, Xbox, and HoloLens and acquired a large amount of money to acquire “Minecraft” developer Mojang, social platforms LinkedIn Linked In, GitHub, and B. In addition, the last Windows system, Windows 10, was launched.
In addition, Microsoft began to weaken Windows and transformed its cloud service business with success. Microsoft’s current market value has reached US$1.8279 billion, second only to Apple among technology companies, which has a market value of US$20649 billion.
