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Microsoft
Also Known As Micro-Soft The original hyphenated spelling used at the company's 1975 founding.
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American multinational technology company founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen on April 4, 1975 in Albuquerque, New Mexico, after the two demonstrated a BASIC interpreter for the Altair 8800 microcomputer. Microsoft relocated to the Pacific Northwest in 1986 and rose to dominance through a contract to supply IBM with an operating system for personal computers, followed by the Windows graphical interface and Office productivity suite. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Company TypeMultinational technology company 2 Founded Year HeadquartersRedmond, Washington, U.S. 2 Company Type
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Why was Microsoft originally spelled with a hyphen?
Microsoft was founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen on April 4, 1975 in Albuquerque, New Mexico, after the two demonstrated a BASIC interpreter for the Altair 8800 microcomputer. Paul Allen suggested the name Micro-Soft, short for micro-computer software, which the company later shortened to Microsoft.
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Microsoft Azure is operated by Microsoft.
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Microsoft's 1990 Office suite is a standing example of software product bundling: separate applications sold together as one package.
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Gates and Allen established Microsoft on April 4, 1975, with Gates as CEO, and Allen suggested the name "Micro-Soft", short for micro-computer software.
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These platforms, such as Amazon, Airbnb, Uber, Microsoft and Google, serve as intermediaries between various groups of users, enabling interactions, transactions, collaboration, and innovation.
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More focused companies include IBM, Xerox, and Microsoft; they and their subsidiaries primarily operate within the tech sector.
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