As its name implies, it was covered with dense olive groves. The Mount of Olives is also mentioned in a reference by the prophet Zechariah to the future Day of the Lord: In that day His feet will stand on the Mount of Olives, which faces Jerusalem on the east.
As of 2016, it is 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.
Happy Anniversary Satya Nadella. You became the CEO of Microsoft this time last year, and what a year it has been. The house that Gates built (and Ballmer almost wrecked) has gone from being perceived as âold and tiredâ to being called âcool..