Today, we’re beginning a brand new series called The History of Microsoft. Travel with us back in time as we discover the roots of one of the world's most important technology companies. Using rare video and photos we bring you the heart of Microsoft's struggles and successes.

Microsoft is a multinational computer technology corporation. Microsoft was founded on April 4, 1975, by Bill Gates and Paul Allen in Albuquerque, New Mexico. [1] .

May 9, 2000 · Bill Gates and Paul Allen seized the opportunity to transform this early PC into a breakthrough — the Altair needed software, a programming language that could make it perform useful computing tasks. That’s when it all began.

Microsoft released its first product which is called the Altair BASIC. The company's first international office was founded on November 1, 1978, in Japan, entitled "ASCII Microsoft" (now called "Microsoft Japan"). Microsoft signs a contract with IBM to develop an operating system for IBM's first personal computer.

In 1975, two young men from Seattle founded a company that would be to the Computer Age what the Ford Motor Company was to the Automobile Age.

On April 4, 1975, at a time when most Americans used typewriters, childhood friends Bill Gates and Paul Allen found Microsoft, a company that makes computer software.

Following this exhibit is a Microsoft timeline that chronicles major events and landmarks in Microsoft history and a technology timeline that features the major hardware platforms for which Microsoft has developed software.

5 days ago · According to Bill Gates, the company has traded as "Microsoft" without a hyphen since its official founding on April 4, 1975, but the old spelling of the partnership with Paul Allen...

6 days ago · (Friday, April 4, 1975) — Microsoft, a multinational computer technology corporation, was founded today by Bill Gates, 19, and Paul Allen, 22, in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Paul Allen saw the January 1975 edition of Popular Electronics one afternoon at ‘Out of Town News’—a newspaper kiosk in the center of Harvard Square. The cover touted the “World’s First Microcomputer Kit.” Paul knew what those words really meant: The …