FUNDAMENTALS OF COMPUTER

Detailed explanation-1: -Inspired by the January cover of Popular Electronics magazine, friends Bill Gates and Paul Allen started Microsoft – sometimes Micro-Soft, for microprocessors and software – to develop software for the Altair 8800, an early personal computer.

Detailed explanation-2: -And in 1975, when Gates was 19, he dropped out of his sophomore year of college to launch Microsoft, now a trillion dollar company, with Allen.

Detailed explanation-3: -Microsoft is one of the most successful and influential companies in the world, but did you know that Bill Gates and Paul Allen launched an earlier venture as high school students in Seattle? It was called Traf-O-Data, a startup in the 1970s that developed a computer system to count traffic.

Detailed explanation-4: -It was Allen who convinced Gates to drop out of Harvard after two years and move to Albuquerque so they could supply software to a startup that had built the first personal computer. Thus: Microsoft Basic was born. In fact, it was Allen who suggested the name Microsoft.

Detailed explanation-5: -Gates was born and raised in Seattle. In 1975, he and Allen founded Microsoft in Albuquerque, New Mexico. It became the world’s largest personal computer software company.