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Founding of Microsoft
Founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen in Albuquerque, New Mexico -
Microsoft Disk Operating System
Microsoft's first successful operating system that was made for IBM during their deal with them -
Windows 1.0
Microsoft released it's first retail version of the now popularly used Windows -
Microsoft Office
Microsoft's first release of the very popular bundle of three programs:
-Microsoft Word
-Mircosoft Excel
-Microsoft Powerpoint -
Windows 3.0
Microsoft released the update to their first version of windows titled, Windows 3.0 -
Popularity of Windows
The operating system created by Microsoft called windows had become one of the highest used Operating system in the world -
Internet Explorer
Internet Explorer was first introduced into a pack for windows 95. It would go on to be a widely used internet browser. -
New CEO
This date marked the announcment of the new CEO for microsoft, Steve ballmer -
Windows XP & Office XP
Microsoft released updates to two of there biggest products, the windows operating system and microsoft office -
Xbox
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 -
Windows Mobile
This date marked the announcment of microsofts moblie version of windows that could be used on smartphones -
Bing
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. -
Windows 7
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 -
Windows 8
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 -
Windows 10
This is the current version of windows that is released to the general public at this time
