Notable residents of the development have included President Richard M. Nixon, Mrs. Pat Nixon, Raymond V. Gilmartin, current Board member on Microsoft, former Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, Merck & Co., Inc, and Tom Coughlin, coach of the New York Giants.

In recent years, business leaders such as Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates have called for more emphasis on science education, saying the United States risks losing its economic edge.

* Business: Léo Apotheker ( former CEO of Hewlett-Packard and SAP ), Orit Gadiesh ( Chairman of Bain & Company ), Dina Dublon ( Board member of Microsoft, Accenture and PepsiCo ), Gil Shwed ( CEO and chairman Check Point Software Technologies ), Eli Hurvitz ( CEO 1976 – 2002 Teva Pharmaceuticals ), Kobi Alexander ( former CEO of Comverse Technology )

The company recovered and, in 2007, it agreed to a buyout by Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates and Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal of Saudi Arabia for $ 3. 8 billion.

In that film, Hidell is alleged to have killed Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates

Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates has described Project Gotham as his favorite video game.

On February 15, 2005 at the RSA Conference in San Francisco, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates announced that Microsoft was planning a new version of Internet Explorer that would run on Windows XP.

After taking the company private with Vector Capital, Burney held the position of Chairman until he resigned to join Microsoft in 2004.

* Bill Gates, Chairman of the Board and Chief Software Architect of Microsoft

Other notable speakers have included former United States Secretary of the Treasury Robert Rubin, United States Secretary of Energy Samuel Bodman, former Colorado Senator Gary Hart ; former United States Secretary of Commerce Donald L. Evans ; former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, and former Secretary General of OPEC Rilwanu Lukman.

In 1975, MITS released Altair BASIC, developed by Bill Gates and Paul Allen as the company Micro-Soft, which grew into today's corporate giant, Microsoft.

Software can be quite a profitable industry: Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft was the richest person in the world in 2009 largely by selling the Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office software products.

The game's popularity prompted Bill Gates to briefly consider buying id Software, and led Microsoft to develop a Windows 95 port of Doom to promote the operating system as a gaming platform.

* Wallace, James ; Jim Erickson ( 1993 ), Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire, ISBN 0-88730-629-2.

Greg Whitten, an early Microsoft employee who developed the standards in the company's BASIC compiler line, says Bill Gates picked the name GW-BASIC.

The problems led to Bill Gates famously referring to the 80286 as a " brain dead chip ", since it was clear that the new Microsoft Windows environment would not be able to run multiple MS-DOS applications with the 286.

Bill Gates was repeatedly heard in 1985 saying that Microsoft made more money on Multiplan for the Macintosh than any other platform.

* Bill Gates deposition video at Microsoft on August 27, 1998 ( Windows Media, Ogg Theora and Ogg Vorbis formats )

Paul Gardner Allen ( born January 21, 1953 ) is an American investor and philanthropist best known as the co-founder of Microsoft Corporation along with Bill Gates, a leading developer of personal-computer software systems and applications.

Allen co-founded Microsoft with Bill Gates in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in 1975, and began marketing a BASIC programming language interpreter.

** Bill Gates founds Microsoft in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

** The name " Micro-soft " ( for microcomputer software ) is used by Bill Gates in a letter to Paul Allen for the first time ( Microsoft becomes a registered trademark on November 26, 1976 ).

Bill Gates said Boies was " out to destroy Microsoft.

It is noteworthy that after the departure of CEO John Akers in 1993, when IBM looked likely to be split up, Bill Gates commented that the only part of IBM that Microsoft would be interested in was the AS / 400 division.

Bettman was later sold to Microsoft founder Bill Gates's separate Corbis Corporation, which continues to control the images of UPI and its predecessor agencies, storing them underground in Pennsylvania and digitizing them for licensing, frequently without any notation of their UPI origins.

As Steve Jobs lost the original power struggle at Apple and left to found NeXT, his angel investor was Perot who invested over 20 million dollars because he believed in Jobs and did not want to miss out as he had when had the chance to invest in Bill Gates ' fledging Microsoft.

Microsoft has received a great deal of bad press surrounding their Palladium software architecture, evoking comments such as " Few pieces of vaporware have evoked a higher level of fear and uncertainty than Microsoft's Palladium ", " Palladium is a plot to take over cyberspace ", and " Palladium will keep us from running any software not personally approved by Bill Gates ".

InfoWorld magazine editor Stewart Alsop helped popularize its use in this way by lampooning Bill Gates, then CEO of Microsoft, with a Golden Vaporware award for the 18-month late release of Microsoft's first version of Windows in 1985.

During his visit to Waterloo in October 2005, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates stated, " Most years, we hire more students out of Waterloo than any university in the world, typically 50 or even more.

In April 2007, it was rumoured that Paul Allen, the American entrepreneur who formed Microsoft with Bill Gates, might launch a takeover bid for the club.

The definition of " killer app " came up during Bill Gates's questioning in the United States v. Microsoft antitrust suit.

In his defense, CEO Bill Gates argued that Microsoft always worked on behalf of the consumer and that splitting the company would diminish efficiency and slow the pace of software development.

Allen later convinced Gates to drop out of Harvard University in order to create Microsoft.

This contract with IBM was the watershed in Microsoft history that led to Allen and Gates ' wealth.

* " Atlas " was the former name for ASP. NET AJAX, Microsoft software, a set of ASP. NET extensions providing Ajax functionality

Tridgell was a major developer of the Samba software, analysing the Server Message Block protocol used for workgroup and network file sharing by Microsoft Windows products.

Applesoft BASIC was a dialect of Microsoft BASIC supplied with the Apple II series of computers.

Applesoft BASIC was supplied by Microsoft and its name is derived from the names of both Apple and Microsoft.

As Steve Wozniak, the creator of Integer BASIC and the only person who understood it well enough to add floating point features, was busy with the Disk II drive and controller and with Apple DOS, Apple turned to Microsoft, who was the BASIC vendor of choice after their success with Altair BASIC, and licensed a 10 KB assembly language version of BASIC dubbed " Applesoft.

Applesoft was similar to ( and indeed had a common code base with ) Microsoft BASIC implementations on other 6502-based computers, such as Commodore BASIC: it used line numbers, and spaces were not necessary in lines.

Its first product was Turbo Pascal in 1983, developed by Anders Hejlsberg ( who later developed. NET and C # for Microsoft ) and before Borland acquired the product sold in Scandinavia under the name of Compas Pascal.

Brad Silverberg was VP of engineering until he left in early 1990 to head up the Personal Systems division at Microsoft.

Competition with Microsoft was fierce.

* Microsoft Word 2000 was backward compatible with Word 97 because it could read and write files in Word 97 format, with the understanding that features unique to Word 2000 would not appear in Word 97.

BeOS was positioned as a multimedia platform which could be used by a substantial population of desktop users and a competitor to Mac OS and Microsoft Windows ( Linux was not relevant as a desktop OS at the time ).

BeOS PE could be started from within Microsoft Windows or Linux, and was intended to nurture consumer interest in its product and give developers something to tinker with.

When Microsoft registered the trademark Win32, the 32 was dropped to simply become Cygwin.

On November 3, 2006, Dr. Dennis Bray of University of Cambridge was awarded the Microsoft Award for his work on chemotaxis on E. coli.

The implementations differ: Microsoft Word was one of the first applications to only show sub-entries of some menu entries after clicking an arrow icon on the context menu, otherwise executing an action associated with the parent entry.

However, the battle was in vain, as neither platform captured a significant share of the world computer market and only the Apple Macintosh would survive the industry-wide shift to Microsoft Windows running on PC clones.

The technology was first introduced in software in January 2000 as an always-on feature of Microsoft Reader, which was released to the public in August 2000.

ClearType was invented in the Microsoft e-Books team by Bert Keely and Greg Hitchcock.