Forty years ago yesterday, on April 4, 1975, two friends from Seattle formed a partnership called “Micro-soft.” In an email to Microsoft employees this week, marking the milestone, Bill Gates recalled the company’s original vision: “Early on, Paul Allen and I set the goal of a computer on every desk and in every home,” he wrote. I think it’s pretty safe to say that Gates and Allen accomplished that goal and more. Most people today carry a more powerful computer with them in their pockets and purses than Gates and Allen probably ever dreamed of at the time.
Bill Gates and Paul Allen’s version of BASIC written at Harvard in 1975
It all started quite simply with Gates and Allen developing a version of Basic (Beginners All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) for Micro Instrumentation & Telemetry Systems (MITS) Altair 8800 home computer. I don’t need to repeat the rest of the story as anyone who has ever sat in front of a keyboard already knows it.
Who knows where the next 40 years will take Microsoft
I believe computing will evolve faster in the next 10 years than it ever has before. We already live in a multi-platform world, and computing will become even more pervasive. We are nearing the point where computers and robots will be able to see, move and interact naturally, unlocking many new applications and empowering people even more.
Under Satya’s leadership, Microsoft is better positioned than ever to lead these advances. We have the resources and drive to solve tough problems. We are engaged in every facet of modern computing and have the deepest commitment to research in the industry. In my role as technical advisor to Satya, I get to join product reviews and am impressed by the vision and talent I see. The result is evident in products like Cortana, Skype Translator, and HoloLens-and those are just a few of the many innovations that are on the way.
Microsoft seems to have rediscovered its energy, imagination and innovation skills in the past 2 years and is back challenging Apple, Google and Facebook in all areas of technology. The future looks good for Microsoft and I’m betting they’ll still be standing at the top, or near the top, of the technology giants 40 years from now.
Happy Birthday, Microsoft.
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