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- The company's 1986 initial public offering (IPO) and subsequent rise in its share price created three billionaires and an estimated 12,000 millionaires among Microsoft employees.
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Microsoft goes public. Microsoft went public with a $21 offering price that increased to $35.50 before the end of the day. Some 2.5 million shares were sold the first day, raising $61 million in what some analysts referred to as “the deal of the year.”
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- A Microsoft Stock History: The 1970s and 1980s
- A Microsoft Stock History: The 1990s
- A Microsoft Stock History: The 2000s
April 4, 1975: Micro-Soft Founded Early in 1975, Allen showed Gates the January edition of Popular Electronics. The magazine featured the Altair 8800, one of the first true PCs. The duo decided to write a version of the BASIC programming language for the machine and sell it to the makers of the Altair. When the New Mexico-based company agreed to bu...
Aug. 24, 1995: Windows 95 Debuts With Windows 95, Microsoft nearly closed the gap with the Mac and delivered a solid operating system to an exploding PC market. In just over a month, Microsoft sold 7 million copies, driving profits up 58%. People literally lined up to buy it. Annual PC sales doubled just between 1990 and 1995 - then more than doubl...
Jan. 13, 2000: Steve Ballmer Named CEO When Ballmer took over as CEO, he faced a maturing PC market and the DOJ lawsuit. But he added to Microsoft's challenges with a series of missteps. MSFT stock fell more than 37% from the day he took over through the day he announced he would resign (Aug. 23, 2013). While most of that decline came in the first ...
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Jan 12, 2024 · January 12, 2024, 2:50 PM PST. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images. Microsoft overtook Apple to become the world’s most valuable publicly traded company for the first time...
