Microsoft turned 50 years old earlier this month as the world's second-largest company by market cap, with a valuation north ...

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

The company helped launch the software industry and bring a computer to every desktop. Hit products like Windows and the Xbox ...

Over half a century, the company has introduced technologies including the Windows operating system, the Azure cloud, video ...

As Microsoft prepares to mark its 50th anniversary, company veterans are reflecting on the pivotal role of the late Paul ...

Commemorating Microsoft’s 50th anniversary, Bill Gates provides a first-hand account of the company’s origin story. The post gains extra charm from an interactive design that transforms the text into ...

Microsoft’s earliest employees took a photo in 1978 that shows just how much has changed in the now-50 years since the ...

San Francisco - Microsoft was shaped by Bill Gates, Paul Allen, Steve Ballmer and Satya Nadella. Friends since childhood in Seattle, Gates and Allen founded Microsoft in 1975 with a stated goal of ...

In 1975, Microsoft was founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen. In 1983, the space shuttle Challenger lifted off on its inaugural mission . In 1991, Sen. John Heinz, R-Pa., and six others were killed in ...

On April 4, 1975, Bill Gates and Paul Allen founded Micro-Soft, marking the beginning of what would become Microsoft. Just five years later, in 1980, the company secured a deal with IBM to supply ...

Bill Gates is reflecting on Microsoft's 50th anniversary — and sharing the company's original source code (as well as the ...

Four men loom large in Microsoft history Microsoft was shaped by Bill Gates, Paul Allen, Steve Ballmer and Satya Nadella over the course of the last half-century in the male-dominated tech world.