Microsoft Shifted Its Culture with a Shift of Leadership

Microsoft shifted in culture with a shift of leadership

Microsoft and its Early Growth

In 1975 Bill Gates and Paul G. Allen, two boyhood friends from Seattle, converted BASIC, a popular mainframe computer programming language, for use on an early personal computer (PC). Shortly afterward, Gates and Allen founded Microsoft, deriving the name from the words microcomputer and software. During the next few years, they refined BASIC and developed other programming languages. Later they developed DOS operating system and most of the personal computers are manufactured with the license of MS DOS.

Bill Gates and his top management team, as they seek to retain the innovation and spirit of a small company in a rapidly growing and changing environment. Microsoft dramatically expanded through its graphical user interface windows operating system. As a result, by the mid-1990s Microsoft, which became a publicly owned corporation in 1986, had become one of the most powerful and profitable companies in American history. It consistently earned profits of 25 cents on every sales dollar, an astonishing record.

Chasing the Internet

Partly because of its stunning success in PC software, Microsoft was slow to realize the commercial possibilities of network systems and the Internet. When a new venture by Netscape had introduced Navigator, a Web browser program that simplified the process of navigating the World Wide Web. In a violent change of course, Microsoft quickly developed its own browser, Internet Explorer, made it free, and moved aggressively to persuade computer makers and Internet service providers to distribute it exclusively. By 1996 Microsoft was bundling Explorer with Windows OS and had begun the process of integrating Explorer directly into Windows.

Leaving of Bill Gates from Microsoft

Bill Gates is a visionary that makes things happen by creating systems bigger than himself and inspiring people to join him on epic adventures to change the world. He’s not a...