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After reading the 1 January 1975 Popular Electronics had created the Altair 8800, Bill Gates called the creators of the new microcomputer, MITS, and offered to demonstrate the implementation of the programming language BASIC for the system. After developing in the next eight weeks along with Allen, the interpreter worked in the partial version of program and MITS agreed to distribute Altair BASIC. Gates left Harvard University and moved to Albuquerque, New Mexico where MITS, was located, and founded Microsoft there. The name Microsoft, a combined word of microcomputer and software, was first used in a letter from Gates to Allen on November 29, 1975 and on 26 November 1976 became trademark. The company’s first International Office was founded on November 1, 1978 in Japan, call ASCII Microsoft, now called Microsoft Japan. On January 1, 1979 the company moved from Albuquerque to La, Washington. Steve Ballmer inaugurated the headquarters of the company 11 in June 1980, this more later replaced Gates as Manager. The company was restructured on June 25, 1981 to become an incorporated company in Washington State, hence change its name to Microsoft Inc.

As part of the restructuring, Bill Gates became the President of the company and Paul Allen in Executive Vice President the first operating system for the company that released to the public was a variant of Unix in 1980. Acquired from AT & T through a distribution license, Microsoft Xenix nickname you, and he rented the Santa Cruz Operation company to adapt their operating system to important platforms. In this variant of Unix became the first version of Microsoft, Microsoft Word Word processor. The SuDespacho application originally called Multi-Tool Word came to make remarkable its slogan of what you see is what you get, or WYSIWYG. Word was also the first CRM application free with features such as the ability to write text in bold.