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Microsoft was developed in 1975 by Bill Gates and Paul Allen. Bill Gates was a sophomore at Harvard University at that time. ... A year later, Gates followed him and they together created a partnership called Microsoft. ... Gates foresight and his vision for personal computing have been central to the success of Microsoft and the software industry. ... Although technology has evolved dramatically over the years, the ability to write sophisticated programs makes Bill Gates good at grasping the technical essence of the business he was in. ... Gates was still enrolled at Harvard, but found time and effort to license BASIC to large corporations such as NCR, Citibank, General Electric, and many others. ... By then Gates and Allen had formed an official partnership. ... Meanwhile, Gates and Allen set up offices in Bellevue, Washington, establishing the first microcomputer software company in the Northeast. A meeting with a Japanese magazine publisher, Kay Nishi and Bill Gates established ASCII, a Japanese company that sold Microsoft products to original equipment manufacturers, dealers, and end users. ... Gates and Allen began to explore in developments of spreadsheet applications.
Approximate Word count = 1156
Approximate Pages = 4.6
(250 words per page double spaced)
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