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Bill Gates anniversary email to Microsoft employees

It is extremely impossible to find a person on this planet who uses a laptop or a desktop computer and hasn’t used Microsoft office suite at least for once in their lifetime or hasn’t worked with any operating system of Microsofts. That much Microsoft is popular among day to day computer users. This Saturday(4th) was very special to Microsoft. They celebrated their 40th anniversary on that day. That is something remarkable because it`s quite a difficult task for a company who started their business as a startup from the age where computers started revolutionizing the world and stand still head high for 4 decades.

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Bill Gates mugshot when he was arrested in New Mexico in 1977 for a traffic violation.
Image credits: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/50/Bill_Gates_mugshot.png

That`s right. At first Microsoft was a startup built by Bill Gates and Paul Allen on 4th of April 1975. Bill Gates the co-founder of Microsoft has a reputation for doing extraordinary things from time to time.History has proven that. From the start Microsoft took a different approach for selling their own operating system to the market, they had an quite interesting  history with Apple and Steve Job, Bill Gates has the most nerdiest mugshots of all time, according to Forbes he is the wealthiest man on the planet and he is co-chair of one of the wealthiest funds of earth, Bill and Melinda Gates fund. Thing can infinitely prove that he is one of the extraordinary among the extraordinary.

On Microsofts 40th anniversary this Friday, he has done an quite interesting thing. He has sent a congratulatory email for all the Microsoft employees. It is quite interesting to read this email which highlights their journey for the past 4 decades and the future path. This is copy of the email originally tweeted by Amit Roy Choudhari.

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A written version of the email can be read here. This email worth reading and by the look of the trends  I`m pretty sure Microsoft will continue their journey for many more decades to come.

 

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Kalpa Gunarathna

Undergraduate at University of Colombo School of Computing.
Interested in UNIX, computer networks and Software development.

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