Microsoft increased to 50 on this FridayIn its half -century, the company has gone from the founder of two employees Bill Gates and Paul Alan, which is more than a quarter of workers worldwide and $ 2.9 billion in the world.
Gates and Allen, Friends of Institute, He established a micro-soft on 4 April 1975 Combination of micro computers and software- Albuquec, in New Mexico, aimed at helping to fill homes and offices with computers.
Five decades later, and so far achieved its first purpose, Microsoft is now an eye on becoming the leader of Artificial Intelligence (AI).
His first step took place in 1981, when IBM launched its first individual computer with Microsoft’s MS-DOS 1.0 operating system.
Two years later, Microsoft launched Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel in 1985Such programs that managed to receive their rivals at that time.
After the diagnosis of cancer, Alan left his executive position in Microsoft and remained in the gate command.
As they remember the media pre -planned, it was normal for Gates to complain as if he did not like the work of an employee.
“One of his favorite phrases” is the most stupid I have heard in my life, “he told the Seattle Times Scott Oki who worked for technology between 1982 and 1992, and who was the vice -president of sales, marketing and services.
In March 1986, Microsoft exceeds $ 21 per sharePrice that increased to $ 35.50 before the end of the day. Today it is more than $ 370.
Gates sold $ 1.6 million in shares and upheld 45 % of the company’s participation in the company, already one of the richest people in the United States 30 years ago.
According to Fortune in 1986, the Youth Executive Director paid his new fate of $ 150,000 hostage.
In its 50 years, the company remains a fundamental pillar of the technical world, despite the failures and conflicts in court for no confidence matters.
Some of his failures, As ‘sympathetic’ clippy“Which was later not very useful and annoying,” he is now considered part of modern history. While other technical giant Fiasscos, such as Windows phone, passed directly.
Nevertheless, in balance you win the list of your success: Windows 95 -What Some fans also queued up To buy a copy of the operating system in the store, a company fellow-or Xbox 360 console and Hello Video Games were secluded game-creature, which placed the company on the video game industry map.
Photograph assigned by Microsoft where its co -founder Bill Gates appears on August 24, 1995, announcing the Windows 95 system. / Efe
The technical giant has not trembled his pulse to acquire, such as the purchase of social networks in a professional LinkedIn career or the success of successful video games between the youngest minicraft.
Microsoft Now it is one of the candidates to buy ticketsWhich faces a prohibition in the United States on this Saturday, if it is not sold by bidens located in China. Other veterans of the sector are also interested in that social network like Amazon or Oracle.
Many leaders have been seen in the company in half a century. in 2000, Gates resigned as Executive Director and Steve Balmer was appointed as Chairman And Executive Director of the company.
Since 2014, he has been the reins of Titan Satya Nadella, who is ready to make the company an AI leader. The reason is that Microsoft has invested billions in this technique, receiving participation in Openai, creators of popular Chatgpt, and then forming their own chatbots, co -pilots.
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella speaks during Microsoft Build Event: April 30, 2024 AI Day in Yakarta, Indonesia / Mast Iram / FEE
Despite alliance with Openai –Microsoft receives 49 % of emerging company’s profits– To achieve the leadership of Technical Titan AI, one can announce in future alliances with other AI companies, a race in which Google and Apple also participate in the first place, among others.
