Microsoft

Microsoft was founded on this day in 1975 by Paul Allen and Bill gates..

Paul Allen and Bill Gates, childhood friends with a passion in computer programming, were seeking to make a successful business utilizing their
shared skills.

The January 1975 issue
of Popular Electronics featured Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry
Systems 's (MITS) Altair 8800 microcomputer.

Allen noticed that they could program
a BASIC interpreter for the device; after a call from Gates claiming to have a
working interpreter, MITS requested a
demonstration. Since they didn't
actually have one, Allen worked on a simulator for the Altair while Gates developed the interpreter.

Although
they developed the interpreter on a
simulator and not the actual device,
the interpreter worked flawlessly
when they demonstrated the
interpreter to MITS in Albuquerque, New Mexico in March 1975; MITS
agreed to distribute it, marketing it as Altair BASIC .

They officially established Microsoft on April 4, 1975, with Gates as the CEO