The name 'Micro-soft' was first used by Paul Allen to refer to his partnership with Bill Gates on 11/29/75. This is the earliest known written record of the use of the name in the companies history.
             The company created its version of BASIC (Its first product) for the machine created by MITS and licensed this to MITS on 2/1/75. The company also licensed its version of BASIC to GE, Citibank and a host of others. The name "Microsoft" was registered on 11/26/76.
             The first international office of the company was established when Microsoft formed a strategic partnership with Kazuhiko Nishi, founder of ASCII Corporation in Japan. In 1979 Microsoft expanded into European markets. Microsoft announced its third language product, Microsoft COBOL-80 on 4/11/78. Microsoft's year end sales exceeded $1 million dollars for the first time in 1978. In 1980 Steve Ballmer arrived, who is the current CEO of the company.
             In 1981 MS-DOS made an appearance for the first time. It debuted on IBM's personal computer on 8/12/81. This was the first super successful product of Microsoft.
             On 6/25/81 Microsoft reorganized into a privately held corporation with Bill Gates as President and Chairman of the Board and Paul Allen as Executive Vice President. Microsoft became Microsoft, Inc., an incorporated business in the State of Washington
             In 1982 Microsoft and MS-DOS went global. On 6/28/82 Microsoft announced a new corporate logo dubbed "Blibbet" . In 1983 Paul Allen resigned from Microsoft to pursue his other pursuits. Also in this year Microsoft launched its Microsoft Mouse and Word program. On 10th November, 1983 Microsoft revealed Microsoft Windows as an extension of its MS-DOS operating system. In 1984 Microsoft made its software available for Macintosh platform. In 1985 Microsoft debuted its Windows software system. The original cost price in US was $99. Microsoft went public by issuing two-and-a-half million shares in 1986. In 1986 itself Mi...