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    About forty years back, in 1975, Bill Gates and Paul Allen created a company called Microsoft. They were one of the early entrepreneurs to realize the importance of computers in the expanding world of work and made a sustainable business out of it. Microsoft is a leader in the field of computer programming and in these 40 years it has not only been innovative in creating value for itself but has also been instrumental in value creation for thousands of small and big enterprises by way of technical

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    Ballmer, current Microsoft’s Chief Executive Officer, whose room was down the hall from Bill’s.      Not only were his roommates amazed by his accomplishments, but also were the people at IBM. They were in desperate need of a DOS operating system, which would

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    When it comes to the term “revolution” we probably don’t often associate a company like Microsoft for initiating significant changes to our lives or the way we live them. Nonetheless, Bill Gates and his team of “techies” have brought about a revolution of change in the field of technology, particularly the Windows operating system. Microsoft has changed the way we use computers and they have incorporated themselves into nearly every aspect of our lives. We use Microsoft or programs created by them

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    DOS is the basic system that people have to using Command line prompt to communicate with computer via simple interface which is not “friendly” user interface. The DOS can’t run multitask on computer which can only load one program until it finished. But some of the features still quite useful that people still use it. Such as: 5

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    company was founded in 1975 by Bill Gates and Paul Allen. Bill and Paul had a vision to build a personal computer for every home. During this time, they developed a brand new operating system, called Microsoft Disk Operating System or “MS-DOS” for short. MS-DOS could simulate hardware

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    8.1, and 10. IBM and Microsoft Alliance Microsoft and IBM formed an alliance in the early 1980’s, creating and evolving much of the world’s outlook of PC’s. In the beginning of the companies came together developed and release the first product, MS-DOS, in December of 1981. Even though the partnership dominated the computing industry through the 1980 and 1990’s, the Microsoft employees where feeling unenthusiastic with IBM, they had been quoted saying the companies operation felt too slow moving

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    influenced the most was Steve Ballmer, current Microsoft 's Chief Executive Officer, whose room was down the hall from Bill 's. Not only were his roommates amazed by his accomplishments, but also were the people at IBM. They were in desperate need of a DOS operating system, which would be used on millions of computers around the world. IBM decided to employ Bill 's

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    1981, Microsoft bought all the rights to an operating system (OS) called 86-DOS and worked closely with IBM to develop it further as MS-DOS. MS-DOS was an operating system without any graphical windows or mouse pad controls. The users had to type in the demand manually. In 1985, Microsoft published the first Windows 1.0 operating system, however, it was not an independent OS, rather a graphical implementation of the MS-DOS commands. Windows 3.1, published in 1992, was the first operating system that

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    people associate Microsoft with the 1990 release of Windows 3.0, but Windows in reality made its first appearance seven years earlier, in 1983 (Windows History, July 9, 2006). Windows 1.0 allowed users to use many applications at once, rendering MS-DOS obsolete. Home-based computers were not very popular in 1985, but by the time Windows 3.0 was released in 1990, computers were impacting daily life more often. Microsoft 's user-friendly programs had innovated computer programs forever but did not

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