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Microsoft: The Early Days
In May of , I joined my former boss from Xerox PARC, Charles Simonyi, to become Microsoft's 77th employee. The newly born Applications Division I entered then was hardly a Division yet, consisting of only two other employees besides Charles and myself.
At that time, the rest of the company was working under the brilliant vision of Bill Gates on Microsoft's traditional product line of programming languages -- Basic and Fortran -- and our newer line of operating systems -- Xenix, which was a variety of Unix, and an upstart new operating system called MS-DOS.
Our mission, though, was to break into the emerging market of business applications for personal computers.
History of ms word pptAt that time, "personal computer" pretty much meant Apples. It would be a year and a half before IBM would announce its own entry into the field, an entry which would overnight come to mean "PC".
But Charles's mission was to compete against the surprisingly successful
