Inside the Microsoft Archives: How the tech giant preserves, shares, and learns from its history
Founded in 1986 and staffed by a team of six, the Microsoft Archives preserve nearly 135,000 physical artifacts, 170,000 ...
'We coded day and night for the two months to create the software we had said already existed': The history of Microsoft reminds me how far we've come in just 50 …
April 4, 2025, will mark 50 years since Microsoft (or 'Micro-Soft', back then) was founded. To mark the occasion, Bill Gates ...
This 37 Year-Old Microsoft Easter Egg May Have Been The Longest Running Secret In Tech History
Tech developers have a long history of adding Easter eggs to software, and users have a long history of finding them. From ...
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Microsoft celebrates 50 years
Microsoft is commemorating our 50-year anniversary by celebrating the achievements of our employees, customers and partners that have dreamt, built and used Microsoft technology as a force for good, ...
Microsoft’s CEOs have this trait in common, says exec who has worked closely with all three
It would be hard to imagine three personalities more different than those of Bill Gates, Steve Ballmer, and Satya Nadella, ...
Bill Gates publishes the original source code of Microsoft that started it all
Shedding light on how Microsoft came to be, Gates wrote that it began with the January 1975 copy of Popular Electronics ...
Microsoft sets May end date for Skype after 14-year run
Microsoft is discontinuing Skype in May after 22 years of service. Kurt the CyberGuy addresses other options for ...
Tech titan turns 50: Microsoft in numbers
Created in 1975 by childhood friends Bill Gates and Paul Allen, Microsoft today is one of the five Big Tech titans.Ahead of ...