Microsoft at 50: how adaptability under Nadella is paying off

A bluff with PC-DOS helped rise to the largest software company under Gates and Ballmer. Nebula contracts slowed down the competition, the mobile revolution became sleepy

Microsoft at 50: how adaptability under Nadella is paying off

For now, changes including AI continue to play to the tech giant’s strengths.

Microsoft has adapted to change for 50 years. What’s next?

In the spring of 1975, a college dropout and his childhood friend launched a tiny software company in Albuquerque with a singular mission: put a computer on every desk and in every home. Five decades later, Microsoft stands as a survivor of tech’s brutal evolutionary cycles, transforming from a scrappy BASIC interpreter vendor to an operating system kingpin, an internet also-ran, a stagnating giant, and now a cloud computing and AI player worth …

DANNY TYREE: Can Microsoft Really be Turning 50?

The world was changed forever on April 4, 1975.

Microsoft at 50: Its incredible rise, 15 lost years, and stunning comeback - in 4 charts

In 1975, a few nerds formed a company to sell programming tools to other nerds. So how did Microsoft go on to become a trillion-dollar juggernaut?

Microsoft has adapted to change for 50 years. What's next?

In the spring of 1975, a college dropout and his childhood friend launched a tiny software company in Albuquerque with a singular mission: put a computer on every desk and in every home. Five decades later, Microsoft stands as a survivor of tech’s brutal evolutionary cycles, transforming from a scrappy BASIC…Read more...