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graico · Member Joined: 17 Jun 2009 Posts: 166

Microsoft celebrated its 40th birthday last month

As Microsoft quietly celebrated its 40th birthday last month, Satya Nadella, the company’s third chief executive, is piloting an effort to keep the company relevant in its fifth decade, even as consumers grow less willing to pay for programs, such as Windows, that make computers tick. Microsoft, in a fierce competition for eyeballs with rivals in Silicon Valley, is increasingly offering some of its core products free and banking that its customers will pay for other services.
Microsoft celebrated its 40th birthday last month Microsoft celebrated its 40th birthday last month

Microsoft celebrated its 40th birthday last month Microsoft celebrated its 40th birthday last month

Bill Gates and Paul Allen relocated Microsoft to Bellevue in 1979. (Barry Wong/The Seattle Times)

Microsoft celebrated its 40th birthday last month Microsoft celebrated its 40th birthday last month

In this 1978 file photo provided by Microsoft, the 11 people who started Microsoft Corp., are photographed in Albuquerque, N.M., just before moving the company to the Seattle area.
Shown, top row from left, are:
Steve Wood, Bob Wallace and Jim Lane;
second row,
Bob O’Rear, Bob Greenberg, March McDonald and Gordon Letwin;
and front row,
Bill Gates, Andrea Lewis, Marla Wood and Paul Allen.
Bill Gates, Microsoft’s iconic frontman, is finally giving up his full-time gig at the company to devote more time to world health charity work. (The Associated Press)

Microsoft celebrated its 40th birthday last month Microsoft celebrated its 40th birthday last month

Where will the company be in another 40 years? For some, that hinges on the ability of Nadella and company to make the place an appealing stop for technology’s most talented minds.

“It isn’t the technology. It isn’t the products or services. They all come and go,” Mehdi said. “What won’t change is we’ll still get the best and brightest. If we keep that, this place is going to be around for a long, long time.”

And the last but not the least...the Romanian language is the second language talked at Microsoft.
The entire conception of Windows Defender comes from Romania.
A branch from that dream team from Bucharest University in 1990 which remains in Romania has developed then Bitdefender, the most advanced Antivirus program.
http://www.bitdefender.com/Downloads/