Computer software advertised on a shop window in Nairobi in October 2006. Microsoft has been at the heart of computing for half a century, becoming a tech stalwart almost taken for granted as lifestyles embraced the Internet. — AFP
PARIS: Created in 1975 by childhood friends Bill Gates and Paul Allen, Microsoft today is one of the five Big Tech titans.
Ahead of its 50-year anniversary on April 4, a look back in numbers at some highs and lows:
