[Music] from Windows and Azure to word and Xbox Microsoft's products have made the company a household name and Tech Powerhouse in 2023 alone The company generated over 21 billion dollar in revenue and currently boasts a market cap of more than $3 trillion making it the wealthiest publicly traded company in the world what led to that success beyond the ticker takes a closer look at the company's biggest moments Bill Gates and Paul Allen found Microsoft in 1975 to develop software for the alter 8800 an early personal computer in 1980 Microsoft signed a contract with IBM to
bundle Microsoft's operating system an early version of its MS DOS with IBM computers in 1985 Microsoft announced the first version of Windows an operating system composed of a graphical user interface running on top of MS DOS a year later on March 13th 1986 Microsoft kicked off its IPO raising $61 million at $21 per share on August 4 1995 Microsoft launched Windows 95 the software would go on to be wildly popular among PC consumers and Enterprise customers in 2000 Steve Balmer took the Reign at Microsoft succeeding Bill Gates as the company's second CEO the next year
Microsoft jumped head long into the gaming console Wars with the debut of the first Xbox in 2008 Microsoft dove into the cloud computing space with its Azure service in 2014 Balmer retired as Microsoft CEO turning over the position to sa Nadella in 201 2019 Microsoft's market cap crossed the $1 trillion Mark for the first time in 2023 Microsoft kicked off its push into generative AI with a 10 billion investment in chat GPT developer open Ai and the debut of a number of generative AI products including its revamped Bing search engine and co-pilot software the company
is now riding the AI hype train as far as it can adding generative AI software to everything from office to Windows and anything in [Music] between
