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Bill Gates and Paul Allen started Microsoft
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Located in Japan - first step of global footprint
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Microsoft’s entry into the operating systems business
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Bill Gates announced Microsoft Windows
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Microsoft moved its headquarters to Redmond
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Microsoft went public
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Born of Office
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Microsoft Research was created to expand the reach of personal computing technology.
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Windows 95 released
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New product: Visual Studio 97 was the first comprehensive set of tools for developers
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New live gaming experience: Xbox
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Visual Studio .NET - free, open source, cross platform framework
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Internet version of Windows = Windows Azure
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Bing the search engine published
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Flagship suite has born for collaboration - launch of Office 365
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Skype become part of the family
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Surface hybrid tablet appears
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Microsoft's launch of Office for iPad - across device experience
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Purchase of Minecraft
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Mission statement created - “to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more”
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Windows 10 rolled out
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Acquisition of LinkedIn
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Microsoft Teams launched
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Highest-capacity subsea cable launched to cross the Atlantic Ocean
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Xbox Adaptive Controller for players with disabilities
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GitHub acquisition
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Microsoft announced it will be carbon negative by 2030, and by 2050 will remove from the environment all the carbon it has emitted since it was founded in 1975.
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One of the top five supercomputers is built to train AI
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Windows 11 announced
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Nuance acquisition - shared vision to build outcomes-based AI
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GitHub Copilot - the hit product of the generative AI age
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New paradigm for search: AI powered Copilot for the Web
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Copilot - introduction of everyday AI companion in Bing, Edge, M365 and Windows11
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acquisition of Activision Blizzard - cross device gaming experience
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Debute of Phi family of AI models
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Copilot + PC, PC designed for AI
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Azure Quantum
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Microsoft announced the world's first quantum chip