1995
BIG PICTURE
1975
Microsoft co-founders: Bill Gates and Paul Allen.
1988
A group of Microsoft Canada employees gather outside the Toronto office.
MICROSOFT AT 50: FIVE DECADES OF TECHNOLOGY INNOVATION
2010
Microsoft celebrated its 50th anniversary in April 2025, reuniting all three CEOs – Gates, Ballmer and Nadella. From its 1975 origins as a small developer tools company to a global technology leader, Microsoft has maintained its mission of democratising computing. Now focused on AI as its next frontier, Nadella demonstrated Agent Mode for Visual Studio Code at the event, showing Microsoft’ s evolution from creating tools for coding to using AI to write code itself.
16 May 2025