the.com/microsoft
the company that made every office on earth run on the same nervous blue screen.
means a technology corporation that built its empire on operating systems, office software, and the art of being unavoidable.
from founded 1975 by bill gates and paul allen, the name mashed microcomputer and software, first written micro-soft with a hyphen it later dropped like training wheels.
first productaltair basic, an interpreter for a hobbyist computer
windows namealmost called interface manager before launch
market capcrossed 3 trillion dollars in 2024
clippyretired 2007, mourned by almost no one
for instance
windows 95 — launched with the rolling stones and actual midnight lines
office suite — still the default language of corporate email since the 1990s
xbox — entered gaming 2001, still fighting sony console wars
github — acquired 2018 for 7.5 billion, now hosts most of the world's code