http://www.findmadeleine.com/ http://www.findmadeleine.com/ Following the launch of the Altair 8800, Bill Gates called the creators of the new microcomputer, Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems, offering to demonstrate an implementation of the BASIC programming language for the system. After the demonstration, MITS agreed to distribute Altair BASIC.[12] Gates left Harvard University, moved to Albuquerque, New Mexico where MITS was located, and founded Microsoft there. The company's first international office was founded on November 1, 1978, in Japan, entitled "ASCII Microsoft" (now called "Microsoft Japan").[12] On January 1, 1979, the company moved from Albuquerque to a new home in Bellevue, Washington.[12] Steve Ballmer joined the company on June 11, 1980, and would later succeed Bill Gates as CEO.[12] DOS (Disk Operating System) was the operating system that brought the company its real success. On August 12, 1981, after negotiations with Digital Research failed, IBM...