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Whether you Like it or not, Microsoft is the world’s largest software maker that, through methods both fair and questionable, has managed to get its products installed on the vast majority of computers on the planet. Today, Microsoft turns 50, and it feels like just yesterday when its two founders, Bill Gates and Paul Allen, assured Ed Roberts that they had a BASIC interpreter ready for his Altair 8800, the first truly personal computer, despite having never seen the Altair or the 8080 processor that powered it.