On this day in 1995 Microsoft Corp. announced it was officially discontinuing its efforts to acquire Intuit Inc. The planned merger started when Microsoft sought ways to better …
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On this day in 1985 Windows 1.0 was officially released. Announced two years prior, Windows 1.0 was Microsoft’s first version of their Microsoft Windows line of OS’s. It …
On this day in 1980 Microsoft formally signed a contract with IBM to create an operating system for the then in-development IBM PC. The operating system was based …
The future leaders of the world could be secured by open source technology, thanks to the many new open source developments specifically targeted at improving the voting process. …
On this day in 1975 Microsoft founders Bill Gates and Paul Allen first contacted Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems (MITS) with an idea for a BASIC interpreter for …