Microsoft at 50
It was fifty years ago today when Bill Gates and Paul Allen cofounded the company Microsoft which has defined five decades of innovation in software and hardware including Windows and Xbox along with developer experiences such as Visual Studio and .NET to bring software to every office and to every home and continues to innovate to this day with the latest advances in cloud computing, generative AI and quantum computing. You can listen to more about my thoughts about Microsoft at 50 on the RoguePlanetoid Podcast.
It is great to look back and see how Microsoft has impacted the world over the years and with my own experience of software starting with those developed by Microsoft including MS-DOS and GW-BASIC right through to using the latest innovations and sharing what I know with the community which resulted in me being awarded Microsoft MVP for .NET and Windows Development, it will be interesting to see how the next fifty years will turn out but whatever happens it will be an interesting journey to follow just as the previous fifty years have been interesting to look back on.
