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    Microsoft was founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen on April 4, 1975, to

    develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800. It rose to


    dominate the personal computer operating system market with MS-
    DOS in the mid-1980s, followed by Microsoft Windows. The company's
    1986 initial public offering (IPO), and subsequent rise in its share price,
    created three billionaires and an estimated 12,000 millionaires among
    Microsoft employees. Since the 1990s, it has increasingly diversified
    from the operating system market and has made a number of corporate
    acquisitions, their largest being the acquisition of LinkedIn for $26.2
    billion in December 2016,[6] followed by their acquisition of Skype
    Technologies for $8.5 billion in May 2011.[7]
    As of 2015, Microsoft is market-dominant in the IBM PC
    compatible operating system market and the office software suite
    market, although it has lost the majority of the overall operating
    system market to Android.[8] The company also produces a wide range
    of other consumer and enterprise software for desktops, laptops, tabs,
    gadgets, and servers, including Internet search (with Bing), the digital
    services market (through MSN), mixed reality (HoloLens), cloud
    computing (Azure), and software development (Visual Studio).
    Steve Ballmer replaced Gates as CEO in 2000, and later envisioned a
    "devices and services" strategy. [9] This unfolded with Microsoft
    acquiring Danger Inc. in 2008,[10] entering the personal computer
    production market for the first time in June 2012 with the launch of
    the Microsoft Surface line of tablet computers, and later
    forming Microsoft Mobile through the acquisition of Nokia's devices
    and services division. Since Satya Nadella took over as CEO in 2014,
    the company has scaled back on hardware and has instead focused
    on cloud computing, a move that helped the company's shares reach
    its highest value since December 1999.[11][12]
    Earlier dethroned by Apple in 2010, in 2018 Microsoft reclaimed its
    position as the most valuable publicly traded company in the world.
    [13] In April 2019, Microsoft reached the trillion-dollar market cap,
    becoming the third U.S. public company to be valued at over $1 trillion
    after Apple and Amazon

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