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Who is the CEO of Microsoft?

Microsoft’s launch of Office for iPad brought apps such as Word and PowerPoint to users across devices. Longtime Microsoft executive Satya Nadella was named CEO, succeeding Steve Ballmer to become only the third leader in the company’s 39-year history. The successor to the Xbox 360, Xbox One was the third home gaming console in the Xbox family.

How did Microsoft get its name?

In 1975 Bill Gates and Paul G. Allen, two boyhood friends from Seattle, converted BASIC, a popular mainframe computer programming language, for use on an early personal computer (PC), the Altair. Shortly afterward, Gates and Allen founded Microsoft, deriving the name from the words microcomputer and software.

What was the first computer made by Microsoft?

In 1980, International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) asked Microsoft to produce the essential software, or operating system, for its first personal computer, the IBM PC. Microsoft purchased an operating system from another company, modified it, and renamed it MS-DOS (Microsoft Disk Operating System).

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