#TGIQF: Microsoft is 50 – Quiz

Microsoft has become half a century old today. The group of Redmund, which launched Windows, Word, Excel and Company, was established on April 4, 1975 by School Friends Bill Gates and Paul Alan. The first successful product was Microsoft Basic, which came in many variants with 8- and 16-bit home computers. For example, this was the only program that Microsoft applied to Amiga.

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Large success came mainly with MS-Doss: IBM made strict discovery for an operating system for the new development IBM-PC and Microsoft on board. Bill Gates signed a clever contract, which gave the company the right to sell the operating system to other manufacturers, in addition to periphery per copy. He himself acquired the program: QDOS adapted Microsoft and MS-DOS, which mastered the market in IBM PC and compatible equipment within a very short time.

In 1985, Windows took the next step, with Windows 3.11, which was released only from 1991, made the group a semi-monopolist in the graphic operating system. To date, various other Windows versions followed with more or less success. In short with Word and Excel and later at the MS-Office, Microsoft also became prominent in office programs. Microsoft with only console cannot escape Sony with its Xbox console.

But Microsoft made the first basic for which computer? We would like to know that in your Microsoft Nerdquiz from you. As usual, the Quiz was in the Hise show this week: Moderator Anna Kalinowski’s three most dull questions. Dr. Volkar Zota and Malte Kirchner sweated a lot.

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(Mavi)