History of Microsoft||The origin of Microsoft||Facts about Microsoft.
Microsoft Microsoft's mission is to help every person and organization in the world become better. Microsoft is a technology company that was founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen in 1975(April 4).The name Microsoft comes from the words "microcomputer" and "software". Microsoft is the world's largest software maker, best known for its software products, including Microsoft Windows operating systems, the Microsoft Office suite, and the Internet Explorer web browser. In 1975, Gates and Allen, boyhood friends from Seattle, converted BASIC, a popular mainframe computer programming language, for use on the Altair, an early personal computer. In the mid-1980s, Microsoft rose to dominate the personal computer operating system market with MS-DOS, followed by Windows. In 1985, Microsoft released Windows, a graphical extension for MS-DOS, and in 1987, it released its version of OS/2 to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs). By the late 1980s, Microsoft was the wor...