Allen and Gates even skipped high school classes to live and breathe in their school's computer room. Eventually, they hacked the school's computer and were caught, but instead of being expelled, they were offered unlimited computer time in exchange for helping to improve the school computer's performance.
With the help of partner Paul Gilbert, Gates and Allen ran their own small company, Traf-O-Data, while in high school and sold a computer to the city of Seattle for counting city traffic. In , Gates left Seattle to attend Harvard University as a pre-law student.
However, Gates' first love never left him as he spent most of his time in Harvard's computer center, where he kept improving his programming skills. Soon Allen moved to Boston as well, working as a programmer and pressuring Gates to leave Harvard so they could work together full time on their projects.
Gates was uncertain of what to do, but fate stepped in. In January , Allen read an article in Popular Electronics magazine about the Altair microcomputer and showed it to Gates. The deal inspired Gates and Allen to form their own software company. On July 29, , Gates used the name "Micro-Soft"—which had been suggested by Allen—in a letter to Allen referring to their partnership.
The name, a portmanteau of "microcomputer" and "software," was registered with the New Mexico secretary of state on Nov. In August , less than a year later, the company opened its first international office. In , the company moved to Bellevue, Washington, and two years later it incorporated under the name Microsoft Inc. Gates was president of the company and chairman of the board, and Allen was executive vice president. An operating system is a fundamental software that allows a computer to operate.
Today, the cloud-based product is used by over a billion people worldwide and Microsoft is one of the largest and most important software companies in the world; and Word is, by far, the most important word processor on the market today. If your business would like to learn more about the latest version of Word, and the enhanced collaboration tools provided in the Office productivity suite, call the experts at BNMC today at My Account My subscriptions My Support.
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With Microsoft Office adding email capabilities in July of , Microsoft Office became the go-to productivity suite for the business professional. Then came a new build of Windows, Windows 3. By outpacing its competitors with their new operating system, cache of available applications, and reasonable price point, Microsoft entrenched themselves as one of the main business software companies in the world.
As Microsoft continued to develop and release industry-leading software, Microsoft Word started to gain features. No longer was there interoperability between the Macintosh versions and the Windows versions of Word.
When Windows 95 launched, so did Word No longer available for Macintosh, Word 95 was the first Word product to be developed exclusively for Windows. Word 97, introduced late in , added Clippit known as Clippy. Since there were so many options that a user could select within their Office suite, Clippy helped people navigate the new toolbars and user interface.
Word was also part of the first Office suite that included product activation, which would become the standard way to license software for much of the next two decades. Since there was a great deal of trepidation that software would have problems working in , Microsoft was quick to release major patches, a trend that continues today. Subsequent versions of the software have made collaboration a major point of emphasis. There was a new version of Word every three years.
Many of these updates added new features, as well as user controls. In Microsoft decided that it was going to start providing access to their Office products, including Word, as a service. The platform, known as Office , was one of the very first major name applications to embrace the Software as a Service cloud model that almost every platform offers today. Today, the cloud-based product is used by over a billion people worldwide and Microsoft is one of the largest and most important software companies in the world; and Word is, by far, the most important word processor on the market today.
Since there were so many options that a user could select within their Office suite, Clippy helped people navigate the new toolbars and user interface. Word was also part of the first Office suite that included product activation, which would become the standard way to license software for much of the next two decades. Since there was a great deal of trepidation that software would have problems working in , Microsoft was quick to release major patches, a trend that continues today.
Subsequent versions of the software have made collaboration a major point of emphasis. There was a new version of Word every three years. Many of these updates added new features, as well as user controls. In Microsoft decided that it was going to start providing access to their Office products, including Word, as a service. The platform, known as Office , was one of the very first major name applications to embrace the Software as a Service cloud model that almost every platform offers today.
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