Business Chief USA August 2020

CEO
ATYA NADELLA
1975
YEAR
FOUNDED
HQ
REDMOND
WASHINGTON
03 Microsoft
US$125.3bn
115
Since its founding in 1975, Microsoft has been striving to transform
the way that people live, work, play, and connect through technology.
“We are inspired every day by the genuine belief that we can change
the world for the better”, it says. Microsoft’s journey began in
Albuquerque with Bill Gates and Paul Allen developing software for
the Altair 8800, under the name Micro-Soft, for microprocessors and
software. In 1980, Gates and Allen struck a deal with IBM to provide
the operating system for the company’s first personal computer. In 1985,
Microsoft released Windows and by the late 1980s, the company was
one of the world’s largest personal-computer software companies.
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