The Story of Microsoft - How a Computer Club Took Over The World

This video is a full business documentary on Microsoft, Bill Gates, and Paul Allen. It features a lot of archive footage of the early days at microsoft, a lot of old interviews with bill gates, as well as displaying old microsoft products.

One of my favorite things about making this video was actually going through old microsoft footage and finding the first windows operating system (windows 1.0), the first MS-Dos footage, Windows 95 footage and commercials, etc.

But ya, this was a pretty full-on business documentary...but because Microsoft is a trillion dollar company with a lot of history, I obviously couldn't get into a lot of topics that i wanted to talk about.

For example, I wanted to talk about the relationship between Microsoft and Apple a lot more. I wanted to mention Steve Ballmer an Ric Weilands importance to the company. I wanted to talk about what happened to Kent Evans (he unfortunately passed away as a teenager). I wanted to talk about microsofts other investments and their future going ahead with Satya Nadella. I also wanted to dive into bill gates history and biography, but there was just no time for any of that. Most of these could be separate documentaries in themselves.

This video is about the lakeside computer club. And how a group of teenagers in seattle took over the computer industry, the operating system industry, and the internet browser industry. They also took a giant chunk out of other business fields as well like the gaming industry with xbox and mojang/minecraft, the movie industry with dreamworks, the travel industry with expedia, the social networking industry with linkedin, video calling with skype...etc.

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[Zuon]

As impressive as Paul Allen's legacy is, nothing will ever live up to his business card.

[pratyakshbanerjee]

AWESOME.I was searching all around YouTube for a good case study of Microsoft and till now this one is the best one.
Keep up the good work.

[chingompiew]

These are some really awesome videos. 10min can easily turn into 1hr! lol but an hour well spent.

[leonjones]

I have read books on this area but this exploration is rapid and comprehensive. Well done!

[koonjulgeshan]

Thanks for these useful information man. this video really helped me doing my assignment.

[Hollowdude]

The history of misrosoft is so amazing and great video man :]

[TheMonkWay]

Youtube really seems to hate channels who take breaks, wish this wasn't the case

[archiveofeternity]

Good video! Comprehensive with a nice style.

[tombyrne]

Lived through this era using computers since 1982 in our home (CP/M) and cassette tape ones earlier plus a high school trip to do punch cards at NCR, congratulations Microsoft! One of the few tech companies to successfully pivot and become even more diversified and strong. Amazing story, an amazing company.

[brandinsider]

really good video, many thanks for sharing this content!

[shabanaak]

You explained me everything. Nicely thanks 😊

[larsulrich]

No mention of Digital Research and CP/M. From the late 1970's to the mid 1980's CP/M had the largest installed user base and the largest software library in the world.

[Wsmith]

Windows phones were some of the best ever. I still have 3 of them and miss them as a option.

[NightpireVideos]

I owned a windows phone. It was a good device on a technical level, the windows 8 aesthetic that was widely hated on PC made a lot of sense on mobile. But the true downfall was the lack of third party apps. The potential was never fully tapped into and competitors did a much better job with their appstores at the time. Steve Ballmer is kicking himself to this day about their failure in the mobile market.

[gasolinewine]

At one point Microsoft could have bought Apple 10 times over... and, at one point Apple could have bought Microsoft 10 times over. Crazy world we live in.

[wobblycentaur]

You have an interesting take on the history of Microsoft. The Teletype Model 33 was a KSR terminal, not a computer. I graduated from hand-cut cards to using a Teletype Model 33 with a paper tape punch and reader in 1968. My school shared a campus with the Hatfield Polytechnic, and we had access to their DEC PDP-10. At this distance in time, though, you don't need to be forgiven for not knowing.

[gamerdudeguy]

I am studying this in school so this is great👏👏 good video man.

[happycrank]

This is a great video as Microsoft's valuation just passed Apple's for over 2.8 trillion dollars. So much nostalgia which I wish I could go back.

[sanaajoudieh]

That was really helpful for my presentation ❤

[Tereza_Mendoza]

My College homework was to watch this video, is very interesting, and a lot of information.🙌🏾🙌🏾