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Microsoft was founded
They officailly established it. -
Paul allen and bill Gates signed a pivotal contract
after failed deals with another company, IBM gave Microsoft a contract to develop the OS for the new line of PCs -
Microsoft came out wiht the os/2
which made windows work better and eaier. -
Microsoft had went public
the Increasing rise in the stock would make a least four billionaires and 12,000 millionaires from Microsoft employees. -
Microsoft had introduced windown 3.0
improved graphic and had better security -
microsoft came up with many OEMS to execute anti-competitive
the royalty payment to Microsoft when no Microsoft product is being used acts as a penalt -
microsoft expanded thier company
they expanded thier product line into computer networking and the World Wide Web -
the company invented windows 95
Which featuries pre-emptive multitasking, use different users new user and has start button, -
Bill Gates handed over CEO to Steve Ballmer
Steve was an old friend of bill's and he was also an employee of the company since 1980 he then became Chief of the Software Architect. -
microsoft was called abusive monopoly
the case of United States vs. Microsoft, it became a big problem between the two and then the court was all settled with the U.S. Department of Justice in 2004
