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Meet Nvidia co-founder Curtis Priem, who helped found and build the AI powerhouse

Business Insider 13 Apr 2025
Priem poured his time and energy into graphics technology, creating the first graphics processor for a PC, the IBM Professional Graphics Adapter, according to his alma mater, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) ... ....
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Microsoft turns 50, Elon Musk on leaving DOGE, Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos and others lose billions after Trump tariffs go live, layoffs at Zomato, Whirlpool and other top tech news of the week

The Times of India 06 Apr 2025
Starting with software for the Altair 8800, the duo’s ambition soon led to a landmark partnership with IBM in 1980. This collaboration gave rise to MS-DOS, the operating system that defined the PC ...
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Microsoft turns 50: Will AI make it even more powerful?

The Times of India 05 Apr 2025
making computers accessible to everyone.A key milestone for the young founders was their 1980 partnership with IBM, which established Microsoft's MS-DOS as the standard operating system in the PC industry ... AI.
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Microsoft at 50: Enterprise IT for the masses

Computer Weekly 04 Apr 2025
And thanks to VisiCalc – a spreadsheet program that had originally been written for the Apple II – when the IBM PC arrived in 1981, it had a killer application, enabling business users to crunch away ...
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Microsoft is now 50 years old

The Verge 04 Apr 2025
Founded on April 4th, 1975, Microsoft went on to strike a deal with IBM to provide software for its first PC in 1980. This became the foundation of MS-DOS, which dominated IBM-compatible PCs during the ’80s.
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Microsoft turns 50! Here are its 25 most important products and milestones

PC World 04 Apr 2025
IBM needed an operating system to power the IBM PC, and couldn’t finalize ... IBM actually sold the PC with a choice of either CP/M or Microsoft’s PC-DOS, but charged $240 for CP/M and $40 for PC-DOS.
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From Gates to Nadella: 50 Years of Microsoft Through 4 Visionary Leaders

New York Observer 04 Apr 2025
He dropped out in 1980 to become Microsoft’s first business manager, playing a key role in securing the company’s landmark deal with IBM, which led to the creation of the world’s first PC with a ...
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Microsoft's message on completing 50 years: Key things to know about the company

The Times of India 04 Apr 2025
Their initial focus on software for the Altair 8800 quickly evolved, leading to a partnership with IBM in 1980. This collaboration birthed MS-DOS, the operating system that would define the PC era of ...
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Magid: Microsoft Turns 50

East Bay Times 03 Apr 2025
The first PC ... Early in 1981, as I was writing the manual for IBM’s first PC word processing program, I used a pre-release copy of what later became PC-DOS, the operating system for what was to become the IBM PC.
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From IBM to OpenAI: 50 years of winning (and failed) strategies at Microsoft

Beijing News 02 Apr 2025
It soon realized that microcomputers developed by young Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, such as the Apple II, would eventually eclipse IBM's mainframes, and so the IBM PC project was launched.
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