A Short History of Microsoft and Google Inc

The most renowned computer technologysister-in-law of Sergey Brin.
corporation of the world is Microsoft and Bill GatesGoogle's success started within a short time of
is the person who founded the company. Googleonly one year and it had become one of the
is the world's famous search engine that comesfastest-growing Silicon Valley of the 20th century.
to one's mind when thinking about internet. It wasA year later, Google won the Webby Awards.
unbelievable to see that two young graduateThey entered into a partnership with Yahoo and
students - Larry Page and Sergey Brin fromlaunched AdWords service and Google toolbar. It
Stanford University became famous forwas hailed as the world's largest search engine
developing the world's fastest and reliable searchwhen it had hit the billion-URL index.
engine.Microsoft had also created their very first own
A computer is almost incomplete with anhome computer system in 1983 which was called
operating system and when we think about anMSX. Their very own system gained huge
operating system, Microsoft Windows comes topopularity in South America, Europe and Japan. In
one's mind. Although Microsoft released their firsta short period of time, Microsoft rose to one of
operating system in 1980 which was a variant ofthe major software developer and vendors in the
Unix. The company made several programs, onehome computer industry. Microsoft released a
of them was DOS known as Disc Operatingprogram called Microsoft Mouse in 1983. This
System was also a great success for theexpanded their product line and other markets.
company. However MS Windows is fame for theEver since then Microsoft has been the biggest
company around the world. Its versions havelargest player in the industry for creating
developed from time to time.state-of-the-art softwares. Besides this, Microsoft
The two students behind today's Google startedhad also entered the PC gaming world with their
their experiment of search engine on the serversXbox system in 2001.
of Stanford University. BackRub was the ancestorThe success of Microsoft Corp. and Google Inc.
of Google that ran for over a year on thecontinues to grow. Most users in the world cannot
university servers before it was closed downthink of switching to another operating system
because it was been using too much bandwidthapart from Windows because it is user friendly.
for the university to handle. It did not make LarryGoogle continues to develop and improve how
and Sergey to end the project. The two friendspeople experience the Internet. Both of the
pursued their passion after setting up a shop incompanies doesn't seem to be ending anytime
the garage of Susan Wojcicki who was thesoon but seem to grow.