2007-01-02 06:09:30 · 9 answers · asked by dhairya d 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Software
MSDOS , microsoft disk operating system
2007-01-02 06:11:09 · answer #1 · answered by Naren 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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, which stood for Microsoft Disk Operating System.[7
2007-01-02 14:12:17 · answer #2 · answered by GlooBoy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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 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
2007-01-02 14:11:54 · answer #3 · answered by blapath 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If your asking about a Microsoft developed product, then they have never had a first product. All Microsoft products have been purchased from other developers up to and including the OS kernel base for the NT/2k/XP/Vista project. DOS, purchased, Word, Excel, Access, etc, etc. All purchased.
2007-01-02 14:14:11 · answer #4 · answered by Richard C 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Depends on when you consider Microsoft to have begun. Did it begin when it was incorporated? Then it was Xenix, a Unix variant bought from AT&T. Was it when Gates and Allen started working together? Then it was a BASIC interpreter for the Altair 8800, called (surprisingly) Altair BASIC.
2007-01-02 14:16:15 · answer #5 · answered by Shawn7400 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The company was founded in 1975 to develop interpreters for a computer language called BASIC for the Altair 8800. The company also sold these interpreters.
2007-01-02 14:13:08 · answer #6 · answered by Shawn H 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
DOS the first Operating sytem gor the Brand New Personal IBM PC
2007-01-02 14:13:15 · answer #7 · answered by elcabula2002 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Excellent reading at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft#1975.E2.80.931985:_The_founding_of_Microsoft
2007-01-02 14:11:56 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
DOS for the IBM PC.
2007-01-02 14:10:18 · answer #9 · answered by Plasmapuppy 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋