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Microsoft

The desktop becomes a cloud.

Move through the software layers that carried Microsoft from the personal-computing revolution into a world of platforms, collaboration and intelligent tools.

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01 The company in motion

Microsoft turns a product into a point of view.

Move through the software layers that carried Microsoft from the personal-computing revolution into a world of platforms, collaboration and intelligent tools.

STARTED1975
CHAPTERS06
ARCHIVE MODELIVE

02 The history

Moments that changed the scale.

Move through the decisions, objects and systems that gave Microsoft its distinctive rhythm.

Microsoft 1975 visualORIGIN / 0101 / 06
1975

Software for the new machine

A programming language for an early microcomputer points toward a future where software is the main interface.

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