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'This is the information age': How Microsoft founder Bill Gates mapped out the new internet era back in 1993
Gates and Paul Allen launched computing giant Microsoft 50 years ago. In 1993, he talked to the BBC about the online ...
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Remembering Microsoft’s other co-founder: How Paul Allen’s vision sparked a software revolution
[Editor’s Note: Microsoft @ 50 is a year-long GeekWire project exploring the tech giant’s past, present, and future, recognizing its 50th anniversary in 2025.] Next time you right-click on a mouse, ...
Microsoft just turned 50. Here’s a look at an iconic 1978 photo of its first employees and where they are now
Microsoft’s earliest employees took a photo in 1978 that shows just how much has changed in the now-50 years since the ...
Microsoft is now 50 years old
Microsoft is celebrating its 50-year anniversary today during a special event at the company’s headquarters in Redmond, Washington. The software maker will unveil new Copilot features, and we’re ...
How Microsoft made it through 50 years
The model built by Bill Gates and Paul Allen remains decades later. What’s changed is how Microsoft responds to a flop.
Microsoft celebrates 50 years of adapting to change
Over half a century, the company has introduced technologies including the Windows operating system, the Azure cloud, video games, and now artificial intelligence.
Microsoft turns 50: 4 employees recall their early years
Microsoft built things. It broke things. It created opportunities for people who never thought they’d work in the tech industry, and gave them stories to tell.
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Remembering Microsoft’s other co-founder: How Paul Allen’s vision sparked a software revolution
Next time you right-click on a mouse, thank Paul Allen. In the early 1980s, before the Microsoft co-founder left the company, he made the call to go with two green buttons on the beige Microsoft ...