Forty years, and the desire to mostrane still half. Microsoft has dubbed the last buoy ripe old age among the companies that now compete at the top of hi tech. Its current director Satya Nadella was seven when a bearded Paul Allen and Bill Gates from the face lanky skinny recorded the mark; Mark Zuckerberg was still in the crib when the company was launched on the stock exchange in 85 with the title quoted at $ 21.
The success of Microsoft is condensed in a single word: Windows, the operating system launched in 1985, that the company’s Richmond had managed in ten years to install, prepaid on almost all PCs that were sold. The value of the coupon on the Microsoft list of Nasdaq reached its peak value in 1999, with a market capitalization of 616 billion dollars. The company created by Gates was then the world’s richest, with a gap of almost $ 200 billion in value compared to the second in the standings. It took another 13 years because of the phoenix Apple came to overcome this record after the return of Steve Jobs at the helm.
The peak of twenty years, however, also marked the beginning of the crisis for Microsoft: the US government accused her successfully to hold a monopoly in the illegal market. The universe of computers began to differentiate itself with the arrival of smartphones and tablets, tools Gates, in his fixation on monothematic software, had failed to predict. The cycle of descent continued with the successor to Ballmer and is interrupted only by the arrival of Nadella, the current administrator who managed to re-establish the operational program with Windows 10, and at the same time open the platform to a whole new generation of laptops that now promise to return the company at the center of the competition. The success of the new head to distance with the past is measured today with the next, likely transformation of Windows open source, a rich gift to the users for the special birthday of the company.
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