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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Microsoft Azure is operated by Microsoft.
Microsoft Office is developed by Microsoft.
Microsoft Windows is developed by Microsoft.
Microsoft's 1990 Office suite is a standing example of software product bundling: separate applications sold together as one package.
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Xbox is designed and sold by Microsoft.
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1. Wikidata: Microsoft
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Allen suggested the name 'Micro-Soft', short for micro-computer software.
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Associated With: Product Bundling, 1985-1994: Windows and Office section
In 1990, Microsoft introduced the Microsoft Office suite which bundled separate applications such as Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel.
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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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