Microsoft is a multinational company dedicated to computer technology. History Microsoft begins April 4, 1975, when it was founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen in Albuquerque.1 His best selling products are the Windows operating system and office suite Microsoft Office.
In the beginning, in 1980, Microsoft formed an important bond with IBM that allowed linking the Microsoft operating system with computers of IBM, Microsoft paying the royalties from each sale. In 1985, IBM asked Microsoft to make a new operating system for their computers called OS / 2. Microsoft made the operating system, but continued to sell its own version in direct competition with OS / 2. The version of Microsoft eclipsed the OS / 2 in terms of sales. When Microsoft released versions of Windows in the 90s, he had already captured 90% of the market share of personal computers in the world.
As of 2007, Microsoft has an annual credit of 51.12 million dollars and at least 79 000 employees in 102 countries. Develops, manufactures, licenses and supports the number of hardware and software products for computing devices
