Microsoft Corporation

company The biggest supplier of operating systems and

other software for IBM PC compatibles. Software products

include MS-DOS, Microsoft Windows, Windows NT,

Microsoft Access, LAN Manager, MS Client, SQL Server,

Open Data Base Connectivity (ODBC), MS Mail, and SNAServer for Windows NT.

Microsoft was founded as "Micro-soft" in 1975 by Bill Gates

(now CEO) and his high school pal Paul Allen. Their first

product was a version of BASIC for the new Altair computer

[which one?]. In 1980, IBM chose Microsoft to supply the

operating system for the IBM PC.

On the UK television program "The Net" in May 1994, BillGates said he was betting his company on the informationhighway".

Quarterly sales $1293M, profits $362M (Aug 1994).

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Interesting Info and Other Microsoft WWW Servers.

Microsoft Windows Developer Information.

Microsoft Research Group Information.

Win_News.

maintained by the Personal Operating Systems Division to

distribute information on Microsoft Windows, MS-DOS and

Windows 95.

(1998-11-06)