Since the 1990s, it has increasingly diversified from the operating system market and has made a number of corporate acquisitions. The company's 1986 initial public offering, and subsequent rise in its share price, created three billionaires and an estimated 12,000 millionaires among Microsoft employees. It rose to dominate the personal computer operating system market with MS-DOS in the mid-1980s, followed by Microsoft Windows. It is the world's largest software maker by revenue, and one of the world's most valuable companies.Microsoft was founded by Paul Allen and Bill Gates on April 4, 1975, to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for Altair 8800. Its flagship hardware products are the Xbox game consoles and the Microsoft Surface tablet lineup. Its best known software products are the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems, Microsoft Office office suite, and Internet Explorer and Edge web browsers. Microsoft Corporation (commonly referred to as Microsoft ) is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Redmond, Washington, that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports and sells computer software, consumer electronics and personal computers and services.
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