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In 1975 Bill Gates and Paul Allen entered into an informal business arrangement after creating Microsoft Basic and called their newly formed business Micro-Soft. The following year the Microsoft name is officially trademarked with the state of New Mexico. At the end of 1978, the company’s year end sales equaled more than 1 million dollars and they have their first international office open in Japan. In 1980 Microsoft enters into a contract with IBM who needs an operating system designed. 1982 brought even more changes with DOS being licensed to 50 hardware manufactures. Also during this time they began developing early prototypes of what is known today as Microsoft Windows.
The licensed numbers of Windows users total more than 25 million in 1993. Windows 95 and Windows 98 were introduced followed by Windows 2000. That year they also acquired one of the largest business diagramming and technical drawing software companies, Visio Corporation.
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