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Microsoft The Company

The thought of forming a company which supplies its customers with software, was a great idea--especially coming from a college dropout. Bill Gates, along with high-school friend Paul Allen, formed a software company in 1975. From the beginning, Microsoft had a tremendous potential to become a very successful corporation. Beginning with a revenue of sixteen thousand dollars, and three employees, Microsoft developed into a huge "money making machine." In its twenty-five years of existence, Microsoft has developed a very powerful and dominating corporation--but is not necessarily considered a monopoly.
William Henry Gates III was born in Seattle, Washington on October 28,
1955. ...

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of education, and planed on programming for many personal computers. He and Allen later founded the Microsoft company --a name which Gates had picked -- in 1975 (Cusumano and Selby 24).
When Microsoft started out, there were only three employees--Gates and
Allen included. The gross revenue totaled sixteen thousand dollars. By 1978,
Gates and Allen had employed eleven other people, but the revenue had jumped to
1.3 million dollars. The growth rate was quite steady until 1982-1983. This was when Microsoft had grown 104%. By 1995, Microsoft's revenue was 5.9 billion dollars, and they employed 17,800 people (Cusumano and Selby 3). In December of 1996, Gates owned 282,217,980 shares in Microsoft, which ultimately helped him become the richest man in the world (geocities 2).
Gates may have been the richest man in the world, but he had more
important things to worry about at the time. Beginning in 1990, Microsoft had
been under investigation by the FTC (Federal Trade ...

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Added: 8/25/2004 09:53:04 PM
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