Gaming

The company began its history in 1975, when fellow Harvard students Bill Gates and Paul Allen, after reading an article published in Popular Electronics on January 1, 1975, about the new Altair 8800 personal computer, developed a Basic interpreter for it. A month later, on February 1, a licensing agreement was signed with Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems (English) (MITS), the manufacturer of this PC, to use Basic as part of Altair software. They thought of calling their company "Allen & Gates", but they thought it was more suitable for a law firm, and then Paul suggested - "Micro-Soft", from "microcomputer" and "software" [15]. The new company, which employed three people, finished its first year with a turnover of $ 16,005 (for comparison: in 2000, the corporation's revenue was $ 25.3 billion, and profits were more than $ 7.3 billion).

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