<P> Microsoft is a multinational computer technology corporation . Microsoft was founded on April 4, 1975, by Bill Gates and Paul Allen in Albuquerque, New Mexico . Its current best - selling products are the Microsoft Windows operating system, Microsoft Office suite of productivity software, Xbox, a line of entertainment of games, music and video, and Bing, a line of search engines . </P> <P> In 1980, Microsoft formed a partnership with IBM to bundle Microsoft's operating system with IBM computers; with that deal, IBM paid Microsoft a royalty for every sale . In 1985, IBM requested Microsoft to develop a new operating system for their computers called OS / 2 . Microsoft produced that operating system, but also continued to sell their own alternative, which proved to be in direct competition with OS / 2 . Microsoft Windows eventually overshadowed OS / 2 in terms of sales . When Microsoft launched several versions of Microsoft Windows in the 1990s, they had captured over 90% market share of the world's personal computers . </P>

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