COMPUTER SOFTWARE
OPERATING SYSTEMS
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Windows
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Macintosh
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Android
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Blackberry?
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Detailed explanation-1: -Bill Gates founded the software company Microsoft Corporation with his friend Paul Allen. He also cofounded the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to fund global health and development programs.
Detailed explanation-2: -10, 1983, at the Plaza Hotel in New York City. That’s when Microsoft founder and CEO Gates took the wraps off the first version of the OS. Gates’ original name for Windows was Interface Manager, but Rowland Hanson, a Microsoft marketing guru at the time, is credited with convincing Gates to go with Windows.
Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -Microsoft is the world’s largest software maker. The company, founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen in 1975, is best known for its software products, including Microsoft Windows operating systems, the Microsoft Office suite, and the Internet Explorer web browser.