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1975
Microsoft was created, by Bill Gates and Paul Allen. -
1975
Microsoft create their first sell product. -
1975
Microsoft refines and enhances BASIC to sell to other customers including DTC, General Electric, NCR, and Citibank. -
1975
In a letter to Paul Allen, Bill Gates uses the name "Micro-soft" to refer to their (60/40)(3) Partnership. This is the earliest known written reference. -
1978
Their sales extend $ 1 millon. -
1979
Daniel Fylstra writes CalcuLedger and offers it to Apple and Microsoft for $1 million. Both turn him down. -
1980
Ibm approaches Microsoft about a project called chess -
1981
Microsoft, Inc. is incorporated; IBM uses Microsoft's 16-bit operating system for its first personal computer -
1981
Microsoft introduce a new language to the general public. -
1981
Microsoft made a name for itself. -
1981
Microsoft's first wildly successful operating system was MS-DOS or Microsoft Disk Operating System, which Microsoft wrote for IBM based on Tim Paterson's QDOS -
1982
Microsoft, U.K., Ltd. is incorporated. -
1982
Microsoft works on a new operation system called interface. -
1983
Paul Allen resigns as executive vice-president but remains on the board; Jon Shirley is made president of Microsoft (he later becomes CEO); Microsoft introduces the Microsoft Mouse and Word for MS-DOS 1.00. -
1983
Microsoft Mouse was released on. -
1983
End of an era with the resignation of Paul Allen -
1984
Microsoft announces and released Word, Multiplan, File, Chart, BASIC, and other programs. -
1985
Microsoft and IBM forge a joint development agreement. -
1986
The company went public -
1986
Microsoft stock goes public at $21 per share. -
1987
The company's first CD-ROM application, Microsoft Bookshelf, is released. -
1987
They relases Windows 2.0 with desktop icons and expanded memory. -
1988
Microsoft became the worlds largest pc software. -
1989
Microsoft Office was released -
1990
Windows starts to look like the versions to come. -
1990
Jon Shirley retires as president and CEO; Michael R. Hallman is promoted in Shirley's place; the company becomes the first PC software firm to surpass $1 billion of sales in a single year. -
1992
Microsoft announces Windows 3.0, followed shortly by Windows 3.1 in -
1993
The company introduces Windows NT. -
1995
Microsoft releases Windows 95, selling a record-setting 7 million copies in the first five weeks. -
1996
Microsoft releases Flight Simulator for Windows 95 -
1996
The company acquires Vermeer Technologies and its software application, FrontPage. -
1997
The Justice Department alleges that Microsoft violated a 1994 consent decree concerning licensing the Windows operating system to computer manufacturers. -
1998
The U.S. Department of Justice files two antitrust cases against Microsoft, alleging the company had violated the Sherman Act. -
2000
Steve billmer becomes the second chief ejecutive officer ofmicrosoft bill gates takes a new role as chief software architect -
2000
The company acquires Visio Corporation, its largest acquisition to date. -
2001
Microsoft introduced their first gaming unit, the Xbox system -
2001
Microsoft Windows XP is released internationally. -
2003
Microsoft launches Windows Server. -
2007
After Windows Vista failed to take hold and since the release of the Apple iPhone in 2007, Microsoft's image as an influential consumer company has faded. -
2008
Gates stepped down from day-to-day responsibilities, leaving Ballmer and his other deputies in charge. -
2009
Windows 7, released in 2009, was the fastest-selling operating system on record, and Microsoft is hard at work on a major refresh with Windows 8. -
2011
Microsoft had about 90,800 employees, including about 40,750 in the Puget Sound area. -
2014
Securityof microsoft wasn´t good.