"I LOVE this company!" Looking back on 50 years of tech giant Microsoft

Microsoft has been shaping the world of technology for 50 years. The company has experienced everything, from great success to strategic misdecisions.

"I LOVE this company!" Looking back on 50 years of tech giant Microsoft

When you hear the phrase “Dance like nobody is watching…” what immediately springs to mind? Although it’s been reused many times in modern music, it’s believed that it originates from Mark Twain. 

A look back at Microsoft’s IPO

On April 4, 2000, to celebrate Microsoft’s 25th anniversary, Network World’s Paul McNamara put together the post you’ll see below. The story hasn’t changed. — It’s Thursday, March 13, 1986: Microsoft, founded more than a decade earlier and already a powerhouse in the world of personal computer software, executes an initial public stock offering that will raise $61 million for the company and leave 30-year-old co-founder Bill Gates unfathomably w…