After the launch of the Altair 8800, Bill Gates called the creators of the new microcomputer, Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems (MITS), and offered to demonstrate an implementation of the BASIC programming language for the system. MITS agreed to distribute Altair BASIC. Gates left Harvard University, moved to Albuquerque, New Mexico where MITS was located and founded Microsoft there. The company's first international office was founded on November 1, 1978, in Japan, entitled "ASCII Microsoft" (now called "Microsoft Japan"). On January 1, 1979, the company moved from Albuquerque to Bellevue, Washington. Steve Ballmer soon joined the company and would succeed Bill Gates as CEO. The Disk Operating System was the operating system that brought the company its real success. On August 12, 1981, IBM awarded a contract to Microsoft to provide a version of the CP/M operating system, which was set to be used in the upcoming IBM Personal Computer (PC). For this deal, Microsoft......

Join Now to view the rest of this term paper!
Members: Login to view this research paper.

Title: Bill Gates And Microsoft
Approximate Word Count: 975
Approximate Pages: 4 (250 words per double-spaced page)

With the Term Papers Lab Membership Pass, you get instant access to every essay on this site, including this essay on Bill Gates And Microsoft, for as long as you remain a member.

Other essays sites charge almost $100 for a single term paper. At Term Papers Lab, you can get instant access to over 100,000 research papers for as little as $29.95!