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Microsoft Case Study

Executive Summary

Background

Organization History

After dropping out of Harvard in 1975, Bill Gates went on to creating Microsoft in Albuquerque (relocating to Seattle in 1979). While still at Harvard, Gates and his partner, Paul Allen, wrote a version of BASIC (a programming language for Altair), only to later start developing software to help users write their own programs.
In 1980, IBM approached Gates in hopes of having Microsoft develop the operating system for its PC’s. Concurrently, Microsoft purchased QDOS from a Seattle programmer and renamed it Microsoft Disk Operating System (better known as MS-DOS). Allen left the company in 1983, but Gates continued developing MS-DOS. In the mid-1980’s, Microsoft presented Windows – a MS-DOS version that appropriated features from its rival, Apple’s Macintosh (later also introducing Windows NT to compete with UNIX). Gates became a billionaire in 1986 when Microsoft went public.
In 1988,......

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