Microsoft, like many big tech companies, has had a history of ups, downs, and major transitions. And I think one of the best ways to understand a company’s history is through the lens of their ...

Microsoft started out as a software company begun by two friends in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Microsoft turned into a multi-billion dollar business, with a wide range of products under its name.

Founded in 1986 and staffed by a team of six, the Microsoft Archives preserve nearly 135,000 physical artifacts, 170,000 digital records, and half a petabyte of digitized video content.

Here are 25 key moments in the long, storied history of Microsoft! For each, you’ll find a bit of background, a quirky fact or two, and what it has all meant for Microsoft and for you.

With more than 290,000 former Microsoft employees worldwide, the goal is to instill a sense of shared history, empowerment and pride; to demonstrate the impact alumni have had on the world; and to ...

A Surface History: Microsoft’s Ever-Evolving Vision for the Future of Computing. With its wide-ranging family of hardware, Microsoft has reimagined how we compute—again and again.