As Microsoft prepares to mark its 50th anniversary, company veterans are reflecting on the pivotal role of the late Paul Allen, who started the company with Bill Gates in 1975.

Microsoft’s earliest employees went on to become freelance journalists, volunteer firefighters and cattle ranch owners.

In 2008, the original employees pictured in 1978, came back together to recreate the moment, and at the time, the late ...

Microsoft is celebrating its 50-year anniversary today during a special event at the company’s headquarters in Redmond, ...

Microsoft, which turns 50 years old today (April 5), started off with a lie. In 1975, the 20-year-old Gates and 22-year-old ...

Over half a century, the company has introduced technologies including the Windows operating system, the Azure cloud, video ...

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Microsoft is 50 on Friday. It's been quite a ride for the computer giant, but there's one wild moment that really stands out.

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the company in the most Bill Gates way possible.

Microsoft is in a strong position 50 years into its existence, but regulations and competitive pressures in artificial intelligence challenge future growth.

In 1975, Microsoft was founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen. In 1983, the space shuttle Challenger lifted off on its inaugural mission . In 1991, Sen. John Heinz, R-Pa., and six others were killed in ...

Even as he grows older, Microsoft founder Bill Gates still fondly ... on how he and his old high school friend — the late Paul Allen — scrambled to create the world's first “software factory ...