Inspired by the history of Microsoft? Are you kidding?
No!
Ignore the cheesy intro and moderation and listen to Bill Gates himself. It was 1975 and together with Paul Allen he jumped the MITS Altair bandwagon by programming the first programming program for that platform: BASIC.
A long way to the iPad. Watch the video!
[Update 4:04 PM: The world is discussing the future of Flash. For this post you have to install Silverlight. Get the idea? It will be HTML5!]
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