Milestones achieved By Microsoft Corporation Owner - Bill Gates

About Microsoft

Microsoft was established by Bill Gates and Paul Allen on April 4, 1975, to create and move BASIC translators for the Altair 8800. 

It rose to overwhelm the PC working framework advertise with MS-DOS in the mid-1980s, trailed by Microsoft Windows. 

The organization's 1986 first sale of stock (IPO), and resulting ascend in its offer cost made three very rich people and an expected 12,000 

moguls among Microsoft workers. Since the 1990s, it has progressively broadened from the working framework showcase and has made various corporate acquisitions, their biggest being the securing of LinkedIn for $26.2 billion in December 2016, 

pursued by their procurement of Skype Technologies for $8.5 billion in May 2011.

About Bill Gates
Bill Gates is one of the best-known entrepreneurs of the personal computer revolution.
He has been criticized for his business tactics, which have been considered anti-competitive.
This opinion has been upheld by numerous court rulings.

In 1975, Gates and Paul Allen launched Microsoft, which became the world's largest PC software company. Gates led the company as chief executive officer until stepping down in January 2000, but he remained as chairman and created the position of chief software architect for himself.

Milestones achieved By Microsoft Corporation

1955
Bill Gates Born in Seattle to William H and Hary Maxwell Gates. (28 October.)

1967
Bill Gates III - nicknamed Trey because his father, Bill Gates Sr, customarily used the suffix 'II' after his name - begins attending the Lakeside School, a private college preparatory school where many children from Seattle's wealthy and elite families were enrolled, including Paul Allen.

1968
At the age of 13th, Bill Gates writes his first computer program in BASIC on an old Teletype Model 33 terminal at school.

1670
Bill Gates Starts a business with Paul Allen. Their main product is 'Traf-o-Data', a program to help keep tabs on traffic patterns.

1972
Bill Gates works as a congressional page in the United States House of Representatives over the summer.

1973
Bill graduated from Lakeside in June after scoring 1590 out of 1600 points on the SAT. Gates os accepted into the pre-law program at Harvard University.

1974
Bill Gates takes a summer job with electronics firm Honeywell, joining Paul Allen, who had dropped out of college to work there.

1975
An article about the Altair 8800, manufactured by Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems - MITS - appears in Popular Electronics, captivating Bill Gates. He and Paul write BASIC software for the computer and the manufacturer - based in Albuquerque - hires the pair.

Bill Gates leaves Harvard in his junior year and moves to Albuquerque with Allen; they christen their partnership Micro-Soft.

1976
Bill and Allen officially register Microsoft. without the hyphen as a business organization.

1977
Microsoft severs ties with MITS, Gates writes and develop other computer languages including FORTRAN, for various companies and contractors. Bill Gates is arrested in Albuquerque for speeding.

1978
Microsoft opens its first international office, in JAPAN.
Company revenues hit $1 million.

1979
Microsoft moves its offices to Bellevue, Washington. Twenty-five employees work full time for the company which generates $2.5 million in revenue that year.

1980
Microsoft strikes a deal with IBM to provide the DOS operating system software for their line of personal computers, scheduled to be produced and sold the following year. Gates retains the rights to MS-DOS, allowing Microsoft to license the operating system to other computer manufacturers.

1981
Microsoft officially becomes a corporation, naming Bill Gates as chairman and CEO. Steve Ballmer becomes executive vice president of sales and support. Gates receives 53% of Microsoft, Allen gets 31% and Ballmer has 8%.

The IBM Personal Computer debuts in August.

Microsoft has 128 employees and annual revenues of $16 million.

Steve Jobs of Apple Computer asks Bill Gates and Microsoft to develop software for their new computer, named the MACINTOSH.

1983
Instead of announcing a 'Man of the YEAR', Time names the personal computer as 'Machine of the YEAR'.

Paul Allen is diagnosed with Hodgkin's and leaves Microsoft.

1984
Apple Computer launches the Macintosh in January.

1985
The first incarnation of Windows launches, which many believe is similar to the Macintosh on 20 November.

Annual revenue hits $140 million; 910 employees work at work at Microsoft.

1986
Microsoft's first common stock is issued. With 45% of the 24.7 million shares issued, Bill Gates earns $234 million the first day of trading.

Gates moves Microsoft's 1200 employees from Bellevue to new headquarters in Redmond, Washington.

1987
Forbes names Bill Gates a billionaire in its annual list of the 400 Richest People.

At thirty-one, Bill Gates becomes the youngest billionaire in history.

Bill Gates meets Melinda French, a Microsoft Product Manager, at a Microsoft event in New York City.

1988
Apple sues Microsoft, accusing Bill Gates and the company of designing Windows to mimic the Macintosh design too closely.

1989
Bill Gates launches Corbis, a digital archive of art and photography.

Microsoft introduced Microsoft Office, which incorporates several software programs, including Word and Excel.

1990
Microsoft launches Windows 3.0. As a result of its overwhelming popularity, more than 100 000 copies sold in just two weeks annual sales at Microsoft reach $1 billion for the year.

Microsoft had been developing an operating system with IBM called OS/2 but pulls out in order to concentrate on Windows.

1992
 Bill Gates hits the top of the Forbes 400 Richest People list, becoming the richest person in the US, with $6.3 billion in personal wealth.

1993
Bill Gates proposes marriage to Melinda French, who accepts.

The FTC decides to pass on the antitrust issue, instead referring it to the Department of Justice.

1994
Bill Gates marries Melinda French on in Lanai, Hawaii. 1st January.

Bill Gates buys Leonard da Vinci's Codex Leicester for $30.8 million at auction.

Bill Gates launches the William H Gates Foundation, officially marking the start of his philanthropic career.

Mary Gates, Bill Gates mother, dies of Breast Cancer in June.

1995
Windows 95 launches; it incorporates the web browser Internet Explorer in 1st January.

Bill Gates first book is published, The Road Ahead hits number one on The New York Times bestseller list and says there for almost two months.

His fortune pegged at $12.9 billion, Bill Gates is named by Forbes as the richest man in the world.

1996
Bill Gates and Melinda's first daughter, Jennifer Katharine, is born 26 April.

Warren Buffett replaces Bill Gates world's richest man as declared by Forbs Bill Gates drops to second place.

Internet Explorer 3.0 launches.

Netscape, a company developing a browser requests that the Justice Department look into Microsoft for bundling Internet Explorer with Windows.

1997
After seven years of construction, Bill Gates moves his family into a 66,000 square foot house on Lake Washington in Medina. It's estimated that the house cost $97 million to build.