COMPUTER HISTORY AND EVOLUTION
DEVELOPMENT OF COMPUTERS
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Apple
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Microsoft
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Google
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IBM
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Detailed explanation-1: -On April 4, 1975, at a time when most Americans used typewriters, childhood friends Bill Gates and Paul Allen found Microsoft, a company that makes computer software.
Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -In 1975, he and Allen founded Microsoft in Albuquerque, New Mexico. It became the world’s largest personal computer software company.
Detailed explanation-4: -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"). Microsoft signs a contract with IBM to develop an operating system for IBM’s first personal computer.