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.

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

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

The model built by Bill Gates and Paul Allen remains decades later. What’s changed is how Microsoft responds to a flop.

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

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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 ...

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 ...

Microsoft turned 50 years old earlier this month as the world's second-largest company by market cap, with a valuation north of $2 trillion. That position might not have seemed possible back in ...