![]() ![]() Inspired from the VisiOn graphical environment, Microsoft began developing an own GUI for DOS in 1983, which became Windows, released in the USA in November 1985. These products however were more successful on the Apple Macintosh. ![]() The latter became replaced later with Excel. Microsoft then joined the market of office software for DOS with Word and Multiplan in 1983. Microsoft later bought 86-DOS completely and distributed it as MS-DOS. As Microsoft however did not have a self-created OS, it licensed a version of 86-DOS, which IBM shipped as IBM PC-DOS for the IBM PC released in 1981. Microsoft gained its first success in the late 1970s with the programming language BASIC, initially created for the Altair BASIC.Īfter IBM was unsuccessful to license CP/M-86 at Digital Research, the company commissioned Microsoft to make a operating system for their IBM PC. The company went defunct in 1975 after minimal success, and Microsoft Corporation was later founded that same year on 4 April. The goal was to read raw data from roadway traffic counters and send reports to traffic engineers. History Traf-O-Data īefore Microsoft was founded, Bill Gates, Paul Allen and Paul Gilbert originally founded Traf-O-Data in 1972, which specialized in computerized traffic counters.
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