Talk:History of Microsoft/Archive 2

GA review
the article is well-cited, factual and provides a good coverage of the topic. good effort has been put by you. i will gladly pass this article and claim it as a GA. Cheers, Sushant gupta (talk) 04:22, 6 April 2008 (UTC)

Retake of the original 1978 photo
As Bill Gates prepares to leave Microsoft, he assembled the original crew back for another photo. Here's the article, from Newsweek. Dr. Cash (talk) 20:48, 22 June 2008 (UTC)

using of the term

 * ...first used in a letter from Gates to Allen on November 29, 1975, and on November 26, 1976 the name became a registered trademark
 * ...and on November 29, 1979, the term, "Microsoft" was first used by Bill Gates
 * ...On January 1, 1979, the company moved from Albuquerque to a new home in Bellevue
 * ? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Hartmann Schedel (talk • contribs) 12:15, 23 October 2008 (UTC)
 * - sorry that I forgot to sign ;-( -- Hartmann Schedel (talk) 13:12, 25 October 2008 (UTC)

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First public use of "Micro Soft"
The first public use of "Micro Soft" was earlier than the November 29, 1975 letter from Gates to Allen. It was used in the October 1975 issue of Computer Notes in a monthly column by Ed Roberts, the President of MITS. (Volume 1, Issue 5, Page 3.)

Roberts answers customer's questions:
 * 3. Comment: MITS should give BASIC to its customers.
 * Answer: Wrong. We made a $180,000 royalty commitment to Micro Soft in order to have BASIC available to our customers. MITS makes essentially no profit on BASIC.

On page two the newsletter editor, Davis Bunnell, discusses the publication schedule and the October issue was to be printed on October 24; readers would receive it in early November. 

-- SWTPC6800 (talk) 18:29, 27 June 2009 (UTC)

Price For 86-DOS
There seems to be conflicting information on how much Microsoft paid for 86-DOS. On this page it says, "Microsoft purchased a CP/M clone called 86-DOS from Tim Paterson of Seattle Computer Products for less than US$50,000, which IBM renamed to PC-DOS." but the source names it as $75,000 and Timeline of x86 DOS operating systems names it as "less than US$100,000" (which seems more correct given the sourced figure). I'm going to change this one to "less than US$100,000" as well, so as to be consistent with the other article and the source.

--Bfarb (talk) 06:53, 21 April 2010 (UTC)

Interpreter did NOT work
" When Allen flew to Albuquerque, New Mexico to meet with MITS, the interpreter worked and MITS agreed to distribute Altair BASIC.[9] "

Actually, the interpreter crashed on the second command.

Source: STARTUP: Albuquerque and the Personal Computer Revolution, a permanent exhibition funded by Paul Allen at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science in Albquerque. Ds77 (talk) 02:18, 9 August 2014 (UTC)

Recent history needs clean-up
Contents since 2010 are more like list than in proper prose style.--Zetifree (talk) 06:11, 10 July 2015 (UTC)

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Is that english?
"The idea that would spawn Microsoft terminated boi when..." — Preceding unsigned comment added by Stefanreich2012 (talk • contribs) 11:54, 3 September 2016 (UTC)

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1972 -> 1975
The article says Microsoft began on or about January 1, 1975, but the first section is dated "1972–1985". The main Microsoft article mentions Traf-O-Data in 1972, but that text isn't here, so I've changed the section title to "1975–1985" pending the addition of material on earlier events. 98.247.224.9 (talk) 07:43, 5 December 2017 (UTC)