Microsoft Timeline of Events

Home / Timelines / Microsoft

Microsoft

Microsoft Corporation is an American public multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions...

Timeline of Events

1975

4.4.1975

Microsoft is founded as a partnership between Bill Gates and Paul Allen in Albuquerque, New Mexico

1981

6.25.1981

Microsoft is restructured to become an incorporated business in its home state of Washington.

1985

11.20.1985

Microsoft Windows 1.0 is released.

1990

5.22.1990

Microsoft releases the Windows 3.0 operating system.

1995

8.24.1995

Computer software developer Microsoft releases its Windows 95 operating system.

1999

3.26.1999

The "Melissa worm" infects Microsoft word processing and e-mail systems around the world.

2000

4.3.2000

United States v. Microsoft: Microsoft is ruled to have violated United States antitrust laws by keeping "an oppressive thumb" on its competitors.