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Microsoft releases Microsoft Excel, which would compete with, and later overtake, Lotus 1-2-3. Microsoft would later adopt many of its features into Windows. Steve Jobs introduces the original Macintosh, the first mass-market computer with a graphical user interface. īill Gates first introduced the first version of Microsoft Windows and it is planned to be released 2 years later. Microsoft announces Multi-Tool Word, which later becomes Microsoft Word. By the late 1980s, it would eventually lose out to Microsoft Excel. Lotus Software releases Lotus 1-2-3, a spreadsheet program that becomes the IBM PC's first killer application, and which established the spreadsheet standard for the PC. Microsoft releases Microsoft Flight Simulator version 1.0, and marks the beginning of one of the longest-running PC video game series of all time.Ĭompaq releases its first PC-compatible machine with IBM compatible clones, which hurt IBM but helped Microsoft (as it had to license DOS from Microsoft), but any application developed to run on the PC could still run on Compaq machines. Microsoft formally launches its International Division and sets up subsidiaries in Europe and elsewhere, finding local agents to handle its business interests As DOS was the only operating system available on the PC when it was introduced in New York City, this paves way to the future domination by the MS-DOS operating system. IBM announces the release of the IBM Personal Computer, which becomes the dominant personal computer. Microsoft buys the rights for QDOS from Seattle Computer Products (without telling SCP that it had a lucrative contract with IBM).

This, in turn, was the beginning for both the Bundling of Microsoft Windows, and Wintelism, as IBM personal computers and Intel were also bundled with each other. Microsoft signs a contract with IBM to develop an operating system for IBM's first personal computer. The company's first international office was founded on November 1, 1978, in Japan, entitled "ASCII Microsoft" (now called "Microsoft Japan"). Microsoft released its first product which is called the Altair BASIC. As a result of Microsoft's founding, Traf-O-Data became defunct. This is a timeline of Microsoft, a multinational computer technology corporation.īill Gates and Paul Allen first founded Traf-O-Data, which only exists from 1972 until 1975.īill Gates and Paul Allen founded Microsoft.

Timeline of notable events in the history of Microsoft