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Sunday, February 21, 2021
Basic timeline of Microsoft
This post is a basic timeline of Microsoft. There are 31 events listed below chronologically. Source: Wikipedia
- Bill Gates and Paul Allen found Microsoft (1975)
- Headquarters moved to Bellevue, WA (1979)
- MS-DOS (1981)
- Microsoft Word (1983)
- Windows 1.0 (1985)
- Headquarters moved to Redmond, WA (1986)
- Publicly traded (1986)
- Microsoft Excel (1987)
- Microsoft Office (1990)
- Windows Media Player (1991)
- Microsoft Encarta (1993)
- Windows 95 (1995)
- Internet Explorer (1995)
- MSNBC and MSN (1995)
- Microsoft Outlook (1997)
- Windows 98 (1998)
- Department of Justice files antitrust against Microsoft (1998)
- Steve Ballmer becomes CEO (2000)
- Windows XP (2001)
- Xbox (2001)
- Zune (2006)
- Windows Vista (2007)
- Microsoft Bing (2009)
- Microsoft Azure (2010)
- Windows Phone (2010)
- Windows 8 (2012)
- Microsoft Surface (2012)
- Satya Nadella becomes CEO (2014)
- Windows 10 (2015)
- Microsoft Edge (2015)
- Microsoft HoloLens (2016)