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Microsoft in numbers Created in 1975 by childhood friends Bill Gates and Paul Allen, Microsoft today is one of the five Big Tech titans. Bill Gates was one of the founders of Microsoft.

Ahead of its 50-year anniversary on April 4, a look back in numbers at some highs and lows: Microsoft Office, the company's suite of software products containing ... it launched on the US market in ...

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