Duba wurin da ke ƙasa sannan ka amsa tambayar daga baya a cikin harshe ɗaya kamar yadda wurin yake:  Passage: Abokan yara Bill Gates da Paul Allen sun nemi yin kasuwanci ta amfani da ƙwarewar da suka samu a cikin shirye-shiryen kwamfuta. A shekara ta 1972 suka kafa kamfaninsu na farko, mai suna Traf-O-Data, wanda ya sayar da kwamfuta mai sauƙi don bin diddigin da kuma nazarin bayanan zirga-zirgar mota. Duk da yake Gates ya yi rajista a Harvard, Allen ya bi digiri a kimiyyar kwamfuta a Jami'ar Jihar Washington, kodayake daga baya ya bar makaranta don yin aiki a Honeywell. Lambar Janairu 1975 na Popular Electronics ya nuna Micro Instrumentation da Telemetry Systems (MITS) Altair 8800 microcomputer, wanda ya sa Allen ya ba da shawarar cewa za su iya tsara fassarar BASIC don na'urar. Bayan kiran da Gates ya yi na cewa yana da mai fassara mai aiki, MITS ya bukaci nunawa. Tun da ba su da ɗaya tukuna, Allen ya yi aiki a kan na'urar kwaikwayo don Altair yayin da Gates ya haɓaka mai fassara. Kodayake sun haɓaka mai fassara a kan na'urar kwaikwayo kuma ba ainihin na'urar ba, ya yi aiki ba tare da kuskure ba lokacin da suka nuna mai fassarar a watan Maris na 1975 zuwa MITS a Albuquerque, New Mexico. MITS ya yarda ya rarraba shi, yana tallata shi azaman Altair BASIC. Gates da Allen a hukumance sun kafa Microsoft a ranar 4 ga Afrilu, 1975, tare da Gates a matsayin Shugaba. Sunan asali na "Micro-Soft" (gajeren gajeren kwamfuta) Allen ne ya ba da shawara. A watan Agusta 1977 kamfanin ya kulla yarjejeniya tare da ASCII Magazine a Japan, wanda ya haifar da ofishinsa na farko na duniya, "ASCII Microsoft". Microsoft ya koma hedkwatarsa zuwa Bellevue, Washington a watan Janairun 1979.Microsoft ya shiga kasuwancin tsarin aiki (OS) a 1980 tare da nasa sigar Unix, wanda ake kira Xenix. Koyaya, MS-DOS ne ya ƙarfafa ikon kamfanin. Bayan tattaunawar da Digital Research ta gaza, IBM ta ba da kwangila ga Microsoft a watan Nuwamba 1980 don samar da sigar CP / M OS, wanda aka saita don amfani da shi a cikin IBM Personal Computer (IBM PC) mai zuwa. Don wannan yarjejeniyar, Microsoft ta sayi kwafin CP / M da ake kira 86-DOS daga Seattle Computer Products, wanda ya sanya shi a matsayin MS-DOS, kodayake IBM...  Tambaya: Wanene aka saya daga?
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