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Microsoft is 33 Years Old

by Jordan Yerman | April 4, 2008 at 08:46 am

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... and Windows is almost ready!

Bill Gates and Paul Allen create a partnership called Micro-soft. It will grow into one of the largest U.S. corporations and place them among the world's richest people.

Gates and Allen had been buddies and fellow Basic programmers at Lakeside School in Seattle. Allen graduated before Gates and enrolled at the University of Washington. They built a computer based on an Intel 8008 chip and used it to analyze traffic data for the Washington state highway department, doing business as Traf-O-Data.

Fast-forward to 2008: Microsoft is eyeing a takeover of Yahoo!, as well as expanding its reach into 3G mobile technology. Meanwhile, though, the long-awaited Vista is seen as a failure, causing Redmont to allow Windows XP to stick around a little longer.

Updte: Nick White, Microsoft's public face of Vista, has announced his departure from the company:

Nick White is leaving the Redmond company to take a position at BuzzCorps, a blog-oriented viral marketing company founded by former AMD communications manager Chris Aarons. White has worked with Aarons in the past on marketing efforts for Windows Vista.