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Microsoft History Microsoft was founded in 1975 by Paul Allen and Bill Gates. During this time period everyone was using typewriter, but Paul and Bill had a better idea. They wanted to make a company that would develop computer software. Microsoft started in Albuquerque, New Mexico and then they moved to Washington State in 1979 and grew into one of the largest multinational technology corporations in the world. In 1987 at age 31 years old Bill Gates became the youngest billionaire in the world. Gates and Allen started the company called Micro-soft, but shortly changed it to Microsoft. The company consisted of microprocessors and software. This would help produce software for the Altair 8800, which was one of the earlier computers. Allen resigned his computer programming career in Boston and Gates decided that I would be best to leave Harvard University. They both made these decisions because they wanted to focus more on the company, which was in Albuquerque because the city was home to the large electronics firm MITS, which was the maker of the Altair 8800. By the end of 1978 Microsoft had sales over a million dollars and in 1979 they decided to move the company to Bellevue, Washington, where both Allen and Gates grew up. Shortly after moving to Bellevue in 1981 the company went on to license its very first MS-DOS operating system to IBM and created their first personal computer. Shortly after Microsoft got MS-DOS other companies also started to get their very own MS-DOS licensed, which required people to type in their own commands to open programs. In 1983, Allen was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma, which then he decided to leave the company. After leaving the business he was cured and went on to designed a variety of other businesses. In 1985 Microsoft released a new operating system called Windows, which included the development of the drop-down menus, scroll bars and other features. In 1986 the company moved to Redmond, Washington, which was near Bellevue and was worth twenty-one dollars a share and raised to $61 million. By the late 1980’s Microsoft became the world largest personal computer software company. In 1995, Windows 95 made its debut. Windows 95 included the Start Menu, other features, and seven million copies were sold within the first five week of when it was released. During the time of the release of Windows 95, the internet was starting to take off, and Microsoft showed the web browser, which was called Internet Explorer. In 2001, Microsoft starting to work with the video gaming industry and created the Xbox console, which was very successful. However, in the first decade of the 21st century Microsoft fell behind Apple in the mobile phone market and also fell behind Google in the search engine market.....