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title: "In which year microsoft company was founded?"  
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# In which year microsoft company was founded?

In which year microsoft company was founded?

## Answers

### Answer by Vishal Kesarwani

## 4 April 1975, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States

In the year 1975, two childhood friend Bill Gates and Paul G. Allen who lived in Seattle converted basic which was a popular computer programming language for using it in a personal computer they were having in that period. Sooner they both thought of founding Microsoft and they selected this name Microsoft getting inspired by the term microcomputer and software.

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