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Microsoft is founded
Microsoft corporation is founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen from Harvard college. First program, Altair BASIC is created -
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History of Miscrosoft
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Paul Allen on board
Paul Allen officially joins MITS as director of software -
A Partnership is Born
Allen and Gates name their company Micro-soft, offically forming a partnership together. -
New Program Announced
Bill Gates announces Microsoft Windows to be released -
Released Program
Microsoft Windows 1.0 is introduced and is sold for $100.00 -
An Improvement
Microsoft Windows 2.0 is released and is also sold for $100.00 -
A Second Program?
Windows 386 is released and sold for $100.00 -
Windows 286
Windows 286 published, sold for 100 dollars -
Microsoft 3.0
Windows 3.0 is released to the public. Full version priced at $149.95, and upgrade version priced at $79.95 -
A Name Change
Date Unknown. Following its decision to not cooperate with IBM, they change the program name from OS/2 to Windows NT -
Windows 3.0a
Windows 3.0a is released with multimedia. -
Windows 3.1
Microsoft Windows 3.1 is released, and sells over 1 million copies in two months -
A Milestone
Licensed users of Microsoft now total over 25 million -
Windows 3.11
An update to Windows 3.1 is released -
Windows 95
Windows 95 is released, and sells 1 million copies in 4 days -
Announcement
Microsoft announces that the future release of NT will be called Windows 2000 -
Windows 2000
Windows 200o was released. Many people bought it. -
Windows XP
Microsoft Windows XP is released -
Another Announcement
Gates announces that "Project Longhorn" will be named Windows Vista -
Vista Released
Windows Vista is released to corporations -
WINDOWS 7!
Windows 7 is released -
Unlikely Business Partnership
Microsoft buys out video chat company Skype. They sold out for 8.5 billion dollars
