As Microsoft prepares to mark its 50th anniversary, company veterans are reflecting on the pivotal role of the late Paul Allen, who started the company with Bill Gates in 1975.

The company helped launch the software industry and bring a computer to every desktop. Hit products like Windows and the Xbox became household names – but does anyone remember the Zune?

Microsoft’s earliest employees went on to become freelance journalists, volunteer firefighters and cattle ranch owners.

Gates looked back at a pivotal point in 1975 when he and his late friend Paul Allen took a leap of faith — and a major shortcut.

Microsoft’s co-founder marks the company’s 50th anniversary by reflecting on Altair BASIC, the software that launched a tech ...

Bill Gates is paying tribute his late friend, Paul Allen, who co-founded Microsoft with him in 1975. Allen passed away at the age of 65 on Monday from complications from non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma ...

The estate of the late Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft, has decided to close Living Computers: Museum + Labs, the Seattle ...

Microsoft has come a long way since it was started by childhood friends Bill Gates and Paul Allen. Allen stepped away from the company in 1983 due to his Hodgkin's disease diagnosis, but remained ...

Paul Allen, who cofounded Microsoft with Bill Gates, died Monday afternoon after a battle with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, his family confirmed to Business Insider. He was 65. Allen, a tech ...