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.
Microsoft is an American corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington. Microsoft is a technology company that supports the invention of, manufactures and licenses goods and services related to computing. Childhood friends, Paul Allen and Bill Gates are the co-founders of Microsoft. The pair were total computer geeks in an age when any access to computers was hard to come by. Allen and Gates skipped classes to live and breathe in their school's computer room.