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From IBM to OpenAI: 50 years of winning (and failed) strategies at Microsoft
2025-04-18 13:45:03| Spiritual Career Counseling
Microsoft celebrates its 50th anniversary. This article was written using Microsoft Word on a computer running Microsoft Windows. It is likely to be published on platforms hosted by Microsoft Azure, including LinkedIn, a Microsoft subsidiary with over one billion users. In 2024, the company generated a net profit of $88billion from sales worth $245billion. Its stock market value is close to $3,000billion, making it the worlds second-most valuable company behind Apple and almost on a par with NVidia. Cumulative profits since 2002 are approaching $640billion.And yet, 50years ago, Microsoft was just a tiny computer company founded in Albuquerque, New Mexico by two former Harvard students, Bill Gates and Paul Allen, aged 19 and 22. The twists and turns that enabled it to become one of the most powerful companies in the world are manifold, and can be divided into four distinct eras.First era: Bill Gates rides on IBMs shouldersAt the end of the 1970s, IBM was the computer industrys undisp...
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