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Microsoft Japan Co., Ltd. is a Japanese subsidiary of Microsoft headquartered in Minato, Tokyo. It develops both hardware and software technologies for consumers and business partners.
Headquarters in Minato, Tokyo
Microsoft Japan's former head office in Odakyu Southern Tower
Bill Gates
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William Henry Gates III is an American businessman and philanthropist. A pioneer of the microcomputer revolution of the 1970s and 1980s, he co-founded the software company Microsoft in 1975 with his c
Microsoft Japan
…software technologies for consumers and business partners. Microsoft Japan was founded in February 1986 as Microsoft Company, Ltd. by Susumu Furukawa and Bill Gates after partnership between ASCII Corporation and Microsoft ended, with the remaining ASCII Microsoft operations being merged into ASCII. In 1978, Kazuhiko…
Gates in 2025
Gates (right) with Paul Allen seated at Teletype Model 33 ASR terminals in Lakeside School, 1970
A MITS Altair 8800 Computer with 8-inch (200 mm) floppy disk system, whose first programming language was Microsoft's founding product, Altair BASIC
Bill Gates next to a Tandy 2000 running a development version of Windows 1.0, 1984