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Microsoft turns 40
On April 4, 1975 Paul Allen and Bill Gates launched a business to sell the Altair BASIC interpreter that was used on the MITS Altair 8800 personal computer in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Microsoft president Bill Gates demonstrates Microsoft’s Windows 95 program from his automobile prior to a press conference in Paris 04 September. Gates was also to meet 500 top computer executives as part of his campaign to launch the company’s new software. (AFP/Getty Images)
Microsoft chief executive Bill Gates looks at a computer screen after a demonstration at a press conference in Hong Kong 09 March 1999. The US software giant and Hong Kong Telecommunications Ltd. announced a tie-up Tuesday designed to deliver a wide range of Internet-based services in the territory. (AFP/Getty Images)
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Bill Gates, Chairman and CEO of Microsoft, holds a hand-held computer that uses Microsoft Windows CE software during his key note address at the COMDEX computer convention 14 November 1999 in Las Vegas, NV. Gates proclaimed a new era in Internet computing, where consumers will be able to simply and easily access information, goods and services from a variety of devices. (AFP/Getty Images)
Microsoft shareholders wait for the annum Microsoft Shareholders Meeting December 3, 2014 in Bellevue, Washington. The meeting as first without Steve Ballmer as the company’s CEO and the first without Bill Gates as the Chairman of the Board. (Getty Images)
Cortana, Microsoft’s personal assistant software, has Danny MacAskill in a spin on the Thames at Westminster Pier on November 19, 2014 in London, England. (Getty Images)
Microsoft Chairman and CEO Bill Gates looks at his wife Melinda 16 September 1999 during a press conference in Seattle where they announced the Millennium Scholars Program that will provide financial assistance to high-achieving minority students who would otherwise be excluded from higher education. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation program will provide an annual investment of 50 million USD for 20 years. At any given point over 4,000 students per year will be Gates Foundation Millennium Scholars. (AFP/Getty Images)
US billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is pictured at an interview with AFP in Berlin on January 27, 2015 where he attends the donor conference of the Gavi Alliance, a public-private partnership bringing vaccines to poor countries. The conference aims to mobilise an additional $7.5 billion in pledges for 2016-2020 to save up to six million lives. (AFP/Getty Images)
