
‘We coded day and night for the two months to create the software we had said already existed’: The history of Microsoft reminds me how far we’ve come in just 50 years
Tomorrow, April 4, 2025, will mark 50 years since Microsoft (or ‘Micro-Soft’, back then) was founded. To mark the occasion, Bill Gates has created a blog post celebrating ’50 years of Microsoft’ which includes a downloadable PDF of the original source code that kickstarted the entire company. Upon reading the blog post, the main thing…