who is the founder of microsoft?

Question

i need to find some infromation about the founder of microsoft corporation

Answer 1

Paul Allen & Bill Gates

Answer 2

Bill Gates and Paul Allen are given credit for founding Microsoft. However, if you get a chance, check out the biography on Steve Jobs. I've listed some web sites in the source section.

Steve Jobs was robbed. :-) If you ever have an idea, keep it to yourself.

Check out this movie:
Pirates of Silicon Valley — a 1999 docudrama which chronicles the rise of Apple Computer and Microsoft.

Answer 3

Bill Gates

Answer 4

Bill Gates

Answer 5

Bill Gates

Answer 6

Bill Gates

Answer 7

Bill Gates

Answer 8

There are two founders. Bill Gates and Paul Allen.

Answer 9

Bill gates

And heres the information you requested

The inscrutable, geeky computer deity who holds the world's imagination and half of its software in his grasp started out in middle school creating programs on a crude terminal in the teletype room with three fascinated friends. A reflexive entrepreneur, the 13-year-old Gates sold their scheduling programs and troubleshooting manuals to local schools and companies. While in high school, the group of enthusiasts formed a company called Traf-O-Data, through which they earned $20,000 selling traffic-counting systems to municipalities, before customers found out that they were in their teens. At 17, Gates worked for a summer as a congressional page (and made a large profit selling outdated campaign buttons as collectors' items), but quickly returned to his old fixation, getting a programmer's position at TRW, a large software firm.
As a sophomore at Harvard University in 1975, Gates and his high school friend Paul Allen read in Popular Electronics about the world's first commercially available microcomputer, MITS' softwareless Altair 8800 - and the pair quickly perceived the vast software vacuum that would be opened up by the Altair and its successors in the now-accelerating flood of computer technology. They worked day and night to create a new version of the BASIC computer language for the Altair, trying to beat the world's other computer hobbyists to it. They succeeded; MITS bought their system and offered them office space in Albuquerque. Gates dropped out of Harvard and the two established the Microsoft partnership to sell their new program, working first out of a hotel room and then a sagebrush-spotted Albuquerque strip mall. MITS was soon drummed out of business by Apple, but the other commercial PCs were so similar to the original that Microsoft could easily adapt its programs to their specifications.

Answer 10

from Microsoft Corporation)

Microsoft Corporation
Type: Public (NASDAQ: MSFT)
Founded: Albuquerque (April 4, 1975)[1]
Headquarters: Redmond, Washington, United States
Key people: Bill Gates, Co-founder and Chairman
Paul Allen, Co-founder
Steve Ballmer, CEO
Ray Ozzie, Chief Software Architect
Industry: Computer hardware
Computer software
Publishing
Research and development
Television
Video games
Products: Microsoft Windows
Microsoft Office
MSNBC
Xbox
Xbox 360
(See complete listing.)
Revenue: US$44.28 billion (2006)[2]
Operating income: US$16.47 billion (2006)[2]
(36.3% operating margin) [3]
Net income: US$12.6 billion (2006)[2]
(31.6% net margin)[3]
Employees: 71,553 (2006) [4]
Website: www.microsoft.com
The Microsoft Corporation, commonly known as just Microsoft, (NASDAQ: MSFT, HKSE: 4338) is a multinational computer technology corporation with global annual sales of US$44.28 billion and 71,553 employees in 102 countries and regions as of July 2006. It develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of software products for computing devices.[5][4][2] Headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA, its most popular products are the Microsoft Windows operating system and the Microsoft Office suite of productivity software, each of which has achieved near-ubiquity in the desktop computer market. Microsoft possesses footholds in other markets, with assets such as the MSNBC cable television network, the MSN Internet portal, and the Microsoft Encarta multimedia encyclopedia. The company also markets both computer hardware products such as the Microsoft mouse as well as home entertainment products such as the Xbox, Xbox 360 and MSN TV.[5]

Microsoft's name, originally bi-capitalized as MicroSoft or with hyphenation as Micro-Soft, is a portmanteau of "microcomputer software"[6] and is often abbreviated informally as MS. The company was founded in Albuquerque, New Mexico on April 4, 1975 by Bill Gates and Paul Allen to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800.[1] After the market saw a flood of IBM PC clones in the mid-1980s, Microsoft used its new position, which it gained in part due to a contract from IBM, to dominate the home computer operating system market with MS-DOS.[7] The company later released an initial public offering (IPO) in the stock market, which netted several of its employees millions of dollars due to the ensuing rise of the stock price.[8][9] The price of the stock continued its rise steadily into the early 2000s. In Microsoft Windows, originally an add-on for MS-DOS, the company was selling what would become the most widely used operating system in the world;[10][11][12][13] Microsoft continued to push into multiple markets, such as computer hardware and television.[14] In addition, Microsoft has historically given customer support over Usenet newsgroups and the World Wide Web, and awards Microsoft MVP status to volunteers who are deemed helpful in assisting the company's customers.[15]