Microsoft celebrates its 40th anniversary
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In early 1975, the head of the company MITS (Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems) Ed Roberts concluded with two young men named Bill Gates and Paul Allen a contract for the supply of Basic language interpreter for the computer Altaire 8080. Roberts lump sum paid $ 3000 for both the creators of the interpreter for the exclusive right to sales, and pledged to pay royalties from each sold copies - from 30 to 75 dollars. To keep things more organized, Gates and Allen decided to found a company Allen & Gates Inc, but is considered more appropriate name for a law firm. As a result, stopped on a variant «Micro-soft», derived from the word microprocessors i> and software i>, which has offered Paul Allen. April 4, 1975 the company was registered in Albuquerque.
CEO of the new company became Bill Gates with a share of 64% (sometimes referred to as a round figure of 60%). Because until 1976 Paul Allen still worked in the MITS and less involved in the creation of the interpreter, its share was 36%. The first officer was the Micro-soft Monte Davidoff , created a mathematical library for the Altair Basic. In the credits of the interpreter was present line with the designation of roles of each of the founders:
Paul Allen wrote auxiliary codes. Bill Gates wrote an executable code. Monte Davidoff wrote mathematical library blockquote> By the end of 1975 Micro-soft was able to earn $ 16 000. Gates decided not to limit its cooperation with the MITS company and contracted to develop a Basic interpreter with other companies, such as General Electric. November 26, 1976 hyphen from the name of the company was gone, and she was now a world-famous name of Microsoft.
Today, Bill Gates sent to all employees of the company, including former, e-mail, in which he congratulated them with a significant anniversary and involvement in the history of the development of an entire industry, changed the world. On tweet with a screenshot of the letter drew attention to the many technical publications, including TheVerge:
Bill Gates mail to Microsoft employees on its 40th Anniversary #microsoft pic.twitter.com/Rwh95Mov64 - Amit Roy Choudhary (roychoudhary) April 3, 2015 < / a> blockquote> Gates writes: