Microsoft was founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen; Bill gates in the worlds 3rd richest person and Paul Allen is the 42nd (the 1st being Warren Buffett). Paul Allen is estimated to be worth $16 billion, and Bill Gates is worth $59 billion. Bill Gates is the Chairman of Microsoft, his previous jobs in Microsoft have been CEO and Chief Software Architect.
Microsoft was first found in 1975, Allen left the company in the 1983. It has started as a small business based on a single creative software program that he had helped to develop, his real genius was his business Acumen; a non-profit global business enterprise fund that uses capitalist approaches to solve the problems of global poverty.
The first independent version of Microsoft Windows, version 1.0, released on 20 November 1985, it lacked a degree of functionality and achieved little popularity. It was originally going to be called Interface Manager, but Rowland Hanson, the head of marketing at Microsoft, convinced the company that the name Windows would be more appealing to consumers.
Microsoft Windows version 2 came out on 9 December 1987, and proved slightly more popular than its previous. Much of the popularity for Windows 2.0 came by way of its inclusion as a "run-time version" with Microsoft's new graphical applications,Excel and Word for Windows.
Microsoft windows 3.0 was a success. After that IBM became partners with Microsoft as well as Apple already being part of Microsoft.
Their latest programme has been Vista which was introduced in 2006.
Microsoft was first found in 1975, Allen left the company in the 1983. It has started as a small business based on a single creative software program that he had helped to develop, his real genius was his business Acumen; a non-profit global business enterprise fund that uses capitalist approaches to solve the problems of global poverty.
The first independent version of Microsoft Windows, version 1.0, released on 20 November 1985, it lacked a degree of functionality and achieved little popularity. It was originally going to be called Interface Manager, but Rowland Hanson, the head of marketing at Microsoft, convinced the company that the name Windows would be more appealing to consumers.
Microsoft Windows version 2 came out on 9 December 1987, and proved slightly more popular than its previous. Much of the popularity for Windows 2.0 came by way of its inclusion as a "run-time version" with Microsoft's new graphical applications,Excel and Word for Windows.
Microsoft windows 3.0 was a success. After that IBM became partners with Microsoft as well as Apple already being part of Microsoft.
Their latest programme has been Vista which was introduced in 2006.
