Microsoft celebrates its 42nd birthday

Microsoft turned 42 on April 4. It was on this day in 1975 that twenty-year-old Bill Gates, expelled from Harvard University, along with his friend Paul Allen, founded one of the largest software development companies, originally they planned to name the company " Allen and Gates ", but ultimately chose Micro-Soft – abbreviated from" microprocessors "and" software "The first development of Micro-Soft was the BASIC interpreter, created for the order of Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems.
 
In 1981, Microsoft introduced the MS-DOS operating system, which is a renamed version of 86-DOS. IBM licensed MS-DOS from Microsoft for use in its first personal computer, IBM Model 5151. In the following years, Microsoft worked on creating a new operating system with a graphical user interface. November 20, 1985, the light appeared Windows 1.0.
 
The next important event in the history of Microsoft was the release of the Xbox game console in 2001, which forever changed the notion of game consoles by using the Xbox Live service.
 
Today, Microsoft is the leader in the personal computers market. Almost 90% of all personal computers in the world operate under different versions of the Windows Operating System, 4PDA.ru reports.

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