Founders

In 1975 Bill Gates and Paul G. Allen, two boyhood friends from Seattle, converted BASIC, a popular mainframe computer programming language, for use on an early personal computer (PC), the Altair. Shortly afterward, Gates and Allen founded Microsoft, deriving the name from the words microcomputer and software.

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In 1975, Bill Gates and Paul J. Allen converted the early Altair personal computer using the BASIC programming language! This made the company Microsoft, with a name inspired by "micro" and "software". 🖥️🚀