Bill Gates and the microsoft co.
Bill Gates, The founder of the Microsoft has a lot of people who like him and I can tell that for sure just by looking at his fortune. There are however people who not only despise him, but dedicate entire web-sites to criticizing him and his company. Some have even gone as far as throwing pies in his face. It's kind of weird that one of the world's smartest and richest people didn't even finish college. In 1975 he dropped out of Harvard to form a partnership with Paul Allen, to make micro-soft; they dedicated all their time in basic, the first computer language program written for a home computer. It wasn't until November 1976 that Microsoft became an official company. In 1977 the partnership between Bill and Paul Allen became official. That's also when they delivered their second language product, FORTRAN. In 1978, besides making a third language, COBOL-80, Microsoft went international by forming a partnership with the founder of ASC2 Corporation in Japan. The following year, the company went into the European market and won the ICP Million Dollar Award with the 8080 BASIC. Starting with the early 80's, Microsoft started expanding the product range from languages to operating systems and its first hardware product, the Soft-
title: Microsoft - Windows / NT and the NSA Address: http://www.microsoft.com/giving/ In 1992 the company started advertising by kicking off its first-ever television advertising campaign (which was called "Where do you want to go today?"), to demonstrate the benefits of Windows-based computing to a new, bigger audience. Later that same year, Windows 3.1 was announced worldwide. The company moved into businesses with a spreadsheet program, the Multiplan. Also at this time, the Microsoft Local Area Network (MILAN) began, linking all of Microsoft's in-house development computers together.
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