A STORY TO TELL NO. 3

Playing Monopoly: Microsoft

Bill Gates was born in 1955 in Bremerton. In his early age he has the talent of programming. After graduating high school he set his first company named “Traf-O-Data” and he stop in college to start a programming business with his friend Paul Allan in new Mexico. They revised the Intel’s new 8080 to BASIC (Beginner’s All Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code). Why Apple started selling computers with Microsoft. In 1980 when the computers are rapidly growing. IBM meets Bill Gates to create a Operating system that allows application forms. Microsoft at that time is not an operating system that’s why Bill Gates buy the operating system of his friend for $60,000 which was the CP/M.
In 1989, Apple computers developed an innovative operating system that used intuitive graphics or pictures and at that time Microsoft copied the Apple’s operating system. Apple sued Microsoft but lost the suit. In early 1990’s Netscape was born an internet browser an the other was JAVA. Netscape and Java joined forces. On that time Microsoft also made a browser programmed named internet explorer an copied some feature from Netscape. In May 18, 1998 US DOJ filed a antitrust suit against Microsoft and Judge Jackson claimed that they violated the Sherman Antitrust Act, and Microsoft found guilty.