the Great Calamity, the Great Hunger, the Great Starvation, the Irish Famine - a famine in Ireland resulting from a potato blight; between 1846 and 1851 a million people starved to death and 1.6 million emigrated (most to America)
As of 2011, it was the world's largest software maker by revenue, and one of the world's most valuable companies. Microsoft was founded by Paul Allen and Bill Gates on April 4, 1975, to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800. It rose to dominate the personal computer operating system market with MS-DOS in the mid-1980s, followed by Microsoft Windows.
Associated Press. When Microsoft wants to you hire you, it drops a love bomb on you, according to a person we spoke with who Microsoft wooed. Rip through the 9 stages of a Microsoft Love Bomb â. Microsoft wanted our source-- let's call him Tony -- to join its entertainment and devices division.