Microsoft Corporation (MS) is one of the largest international organizations that manufactures proprietary software for various types of computing equipment (PCs, game consoles, mobile devices). It is the founder of the worldwide popular to date Windows operating system. The history of Microsoft is full of bright events that left a significant mark in the computer world. Use the hqbroker training materials to improve your trading skills. History of Microsoft: the analysis of the main periods 1975 - young professionals Bill Gates and Paul Allen invented and created a Basic interpreter for the newly made computer device called "Altair". The guys quickly signed an agreement with the founders of this device. After that they opened their own company Microsoft in the city of Albuquerque (New Mexico). Their "baby" already during the first year of operation brought in income estimated at one million US dollars. 1980 - release of the Z-80 SoftCard, a device through which the CP/M OS started on the Apple II computer. In summer, Steve Ballmer comes to the organization. In the same period, the first operating system called "Xenix", equipped with a text editor "Multi-Tool Word", which, in turn, is the ancestor of the now known Microsoft Word. 1989 - the release of Microsoft Office and its main components in the form of Word, Excel, as well as other programs from the office complex. 2014 - official demonstration of the Windows 10 demo; the departure of Balmer and the coming to his place of Sathya Nadella, an American with Indian roots; awarding the company the title of international leader among organizations that create software, according to the magazine edition of Forbes; signing a four-year contract with FC Real Madrid to create a digital platform based on Power BI. 2017 - announcement of the establishment of the first own information processing centers in Africa; announcing the construction of a data center based on a gas source of energy. Note that on these achievements and plans, the history of Microsoft development does not end. The company's management and many thousands of employees continue to work actively in the channel of product improvement and development of new branches of computer activities, keeping pace with the times. Now let's analyze the process of modifying the emblem of the greatest corporation of the twentieth century. Open a trading account with HQBroker.com and trade on Microsoft shares with company’s professional analysts.