{"id":919811,"date":"2025-04-05T11:15:28","date_gmt":"2025-04-05T05:45:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=919811"},"modified":"2025-04-05T11:15:28","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T05:45:28","slug":"microsofts-message-on-completing-50-years-key-things-to-know-about-the-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/04\/05\/microsofts-message-on-completing-50-years-key-things-to-know-about-the-company\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft&#8217;s message on completing 50 years: Key things to know about the company"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft is now 50 years old. Founded on April 4, 1975, by Bill Gates and Paul Allen as Micro-Soft, the company emerged from a desire to revolutionise personal computing. Their initial focus on software for the Altair 8800 quickly evolved, leading to a partnership with IBM in 1980. This collaboration birthed MS-DOS, the operating system that would define the PC era of the 1980s and pave the way for Microsoft&#8217;s enduring influence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c50 years of Microsoft. \ud83c\udf89 As we approach the next 50, we look forward to new innovations, challenges, and possibilities. The future is built by those who dare to dream and create. Here&#8217;s to the makers! #Microsoft50\u201d the company said in a post on X.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft is now 50 years old. Founded on April 4, 1975, by Bill Gates and Paul Allen as Micro-Soft, the company emerged from a desire to revolutionise personal computing. Their initial focus on software for the Altair 8800 quickly evolved, leading to a partnership with IBM in 1980. This collaboration birthed MS-DOS, the operating system that would define the PC era of the 1980s and pave the way for Microsoft&#8217;s enduring influence. \u201c50 years of Microsoft. \ud83c\udf89 As we approach the next 50, we look forward to new innovations, challenges, and possibilities. The future is built by those who dare [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-919811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=919811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919811\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=919811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=919811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=919811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}