US EditionMicrosoft founder Bill Gates reflects upon a 50-year-old computer code that reshaped technology
- Microsoft, founded in 1975 by Bill Gates and Paul Allen, is celebrating its 50th anniversary, marking five decades at the core of personal and business computing.
- In 1980, IBM awarded Microsoft a contract to provide the operating system for its Personal Computer , leading to the debut of the IBM PC equipped with MS-DOS in 1981 and marking Microsoft's entry into the operating systems business.
- Microsoft's journey included the 1985 announcement of the first version of Windows, the 1989 release of the first version of Office for Apple's Mac computers, the 1995 release of Internet Explorer as part of Windows 95, the 2001 release of Xbox, the 2009 launch of Bing, the 2012 launch of the Surface tablet, and the 2017 introduction of Teams.
- Key moments for Microsoft include going public on March 13, 1986, at $21 per share, the transition from Bill Gates to Steve Ballmer as CEO in January 2000, Satya Nadella becoming CEO in February 2014, and the 2023 completion of the $68.7 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard, its largest acquisition ever; Bill Gates once said, "The future of gaming starts today, and it starts with Xbox."
- Under Satya Nadella's leadership, Microsoft has shifted its focus to cloud computing and AI, with Azure becoming a core service, aggressive investments in AI infrastructure costing $22.6 billion in a single quarter, and a revenue run rate for the AI business of $13 billion, while also facing competition in the cloud market from Amazon and challenges in the smartphone market dominated by Apple and Google.
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Microsoft founder Bill Gates reflects upon 50-year-old computer code that reshaped technology
Even as he grows older, Microsoft founder Bill Gates still fondly remembers the catalytic computer code he wrote 50 years ago that opened up a new frontier in technology. Although the code that Gates printed out on a teletype machine may look crude compared to what's powering today's artificial intelligence…
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