Microsoft has helped revolutionise computing in the last 50 years – and not just by always finding new ways to do our heads in with Teams. As well as making Bill Gates one of the world’s top ...

Former Lakeside School students Bill Gates and Paul Allen found Micro-Soft, a portmanteau of microcomputer and software, in Albuquerque, N.M.

The original version of Microsoft Windows, which was introduced in 1985. Windows 1.0 was a DOS application that provided a crude windowing environment. Its "MS-DOS Executive" was the launching pad ...

However, marketers at Microsoft recognized that the name "Windows" would resonate more with consumers, as it succinctly described the software's defining feature: the ability to manage multiple ...

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