Microsoft at 50: what the brand's done right [Yahoo! Finance]
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Today is the 50th anniversary of one of the world's biggest brands, Microsoft. How was this computing firm born? Inspiration struck when Bill Gates and Paul Allen saw the magazine cover of Popular Electronics, featuring the Altair 8800 – the first microcomputer. From there, they set out on a mission to write software for it and any future versions. As a result, on 4 April 1975, Microsoft was born. Soon after, the company secured a deal to provide the operating system for IBM's first personal computer, and by the late 1980s, Microsoft was the world's largest personal-computer software company. Fast forward to today, and Microsoft is celebrating its 50th anniversary as the third most valuable brand in the world, according to Kantar. (It even survived that ridiculous 1980s Microsoft logo From writing software to now generating around $245 billion in annual revenue via some of the best laptops for graphic design , and more, how did Microsoft become one of the most successful bran
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