FUNDAMENTALS OF COMPUTER

Detailed explanation-1: -Microsoft becomes Microsoft, Inc., an incorporated business in the state of Washington.

Detailed explanation-2: -Microsoft purchased an operating system from another company, modified it, and renamed it MS-DOS (Microsoft Disk Operating System). MS-DOS was released with the IBM PC in 1981.

Detailed explanation-3: -In 1983, in collaboration with numerous companies, Microsoft created a home computer system, MSX, which contained its own version of the DOS operating system, called MSX-DOS; this became relatively popular in Japan, Europe and South America.

Detailed explanation-4: -This became Microsoft Disk Operating System, MS-DOS, introduced in 1981. “Microsoft also licensed their system to multiple computer companies, who supplied MS-DOS for their own hardware, sometimes under their own names. Microsoft later required the use of the MS-DOS name, with the exception of the IBM variant.

Detailed explanation-5: -Microsoft released its first product which is called the Altair BASIC. The company’s first international office was founded on November 1, 1978, in Japan, entitled “ASCII Microsoft” (now called “Microsoft Japan").