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Microsoft is founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen; they sell BASIC, the first PC computer language program to MITS Computer, Microsoft's first customer. -
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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 Windows was announced November 10. -
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Microsoft and IBM forge a joint development agreement. -
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The company's first CD-ROM application, Microsoft Bookshelf, is released. -
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Bill Gates is awarded the National Medal of Technology for Technological Achievement. -
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The company introduces Windows NT. -
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Microsoft Windows 95 was released August 24, 1995 and sells more than 1 Million copies within 4 days. -
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The company acquires Vermeer Technologies and its software application, FrontPage. -
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In October of 1998 Microsoft announced that future releases of Windows NT would no longer have the initials of NT and that the next edition would be Windows 2000. -
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Microsoft Windows 98 SE (Second Edition) was released May 5, 1999. -
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The company acquires Visio Corporation, its largest acquisition to date. -
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Microsoft Windows ME (Millennium) released June 19, 2000. -
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Microsoft Windows XP is released internationally. -
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Microsoft launches Windows Server 2003. -
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Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 is released on October 12 -
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Microsoft releases Microsoft Windows Vista to corporations on November 30. -
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Windows Office 2007 to the general public January 30 -
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Microsoft releases Windows 7 October 22.
