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          History of Microsoft

          For a chronological guide, see Timeline of Microsoft.

          Microsoft is a multinational computer technology corporation. Microsoft was founded on April 4, , by Bill Gates and Paul Allen in Albuquerque, New Mexico.[1] Its current best-selling products are the Microsoft Windowsoperating system; Microsoft Office, a suite of productivity software; Xbox, a line of entertainment of games, music, and video; Bing, a line of search engines; and Microsoft Azure, a cloud services platform.[2]

          In , Microsoft formed a partnership with IBM to bundle Microsoft's operating system with IBM computers; with that deal, IBM paid Microsoft a royalty for every sale.

          In , IBM requested Microsoft to develop a new operating system for their computers called OS/2. Microsoft produced that operating system, but also continued to sell their own alternative, which proved to be in direct competition with OS/2.

          Microsoft Windows eventually overshadowed OS/2 in terms of sal