who discovered microsoft?
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It was not 'discovered'. Bill Gates went to school, and they had some huge computers there. The students messed with them, and programmed with punchcards. Bill excelled in it, and everyone asked him questions about it. He got hired to make a traffic counting machine with a friend. The friend died, and Bill picked up the project with Paul Allen. They did other things, and eventually created the DOS operating system and sold it to IBM. They later created Microsoft, and bought back the rights for their DOS and started distibuting DOS to everyone. DOS grew over time, and GUIs were formed, and Microsoft became a giant.
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support.microsoft.com\nsearch the knowlege base.
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Yeah Microsoft has it!
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Good question, if phrased slightly incorrectly.  Bill Gates managed to sell the rights to an operating system to IBM way back in the day, that he didn't even have yet.  He paid a person in Washington state $50,000 for DOS and provided that to IBM.  That's how Microsoft was started.  Bill Gates never wrote a line of code in his life.\n\nIf your curious about this I suggest you watch Pirates of Silicon Valley, http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0168122/ which goes from Apple being on top to the beginnings of Microsoft and how Microsoft eventually climbed their way to the top.\n\nBut, Bill Gates started Microsoft on the basis of an operating system he didn't even have when he started it.
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I would say the guy who owns the Seahawks-Paul Allen. He was the co-founder of Microsoft.
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Charles Babbage -Father of computer.\nAugustus Ada King- Mother of programming
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Blaise Pascal? He invented the calculator. Maybe Isaac Newton, the inventor of calculus, or Charles Babbage, the inventor of the computer. Perhaps John Napier, who discovered how to add, subtract, multiply, divide, and even extract square roots simply by moving pieces on a chessboard? Tell you what, pick René Descartes, he's the inventor of coordinate geometry. These are all excellent choices!
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Godsownman has the right answer. Like many "microsoft" technologies (including their first successful product, MS-DOS), hotmail was created by someone else and then bought by microsoft.
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Bill Gates??  No way!!  He has a gift to make money out of technology, but he's no mathematician, neither a technology guru.\n\nI suggest Alan Turing, British mathematician who is considered the father of computer science.  Modern computers are all based on principles of his "Turing Machine".
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Alan Curtis Kay is considered as the Father of Personal Computing.\n\nFor more info: http://www.sdsuniverse.info/story.asp?id=27397
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Think Bill Gates! Who knows ya may have found the next one... :o)
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Philo T. Farnsworth \nhttp://www.ideafinder.com/history/inventors/farnsworth.htm
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According to the bible, it was God.\nAccording to Darwin, it was natural evolution.\nMany others will convince you that it was Steve Jobs and Apple.\n\nThe answer, according to http://www.superkids.com/aweb/pages/features/mouse/mouse.html, is Doug Engelbart.\n\n(which I found via this Yahoo! Search http://myweb2.search.yahoo.com/search?p=who+invented+the+mouse.)
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as far as i know, bill gates.
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I would say Tim Berners Lee, who basically invented the World Wide Web.  He also created the first web browser and currently directs the World Wide Web Consortium.
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Bill W Gates\n- aka mr. windows !
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Bill gates invented computers!