Microsoft company's shares reach its highest value since December 1999. In 2018, Microsoft surpassed Apple as the most valuable publicly traded company in the world after being dethroned by the tech giant in 2010. Childhood friends Bill Gates and Paul Allen sought to make a business utilizing their shared skills in computer programming. In 1972 they founded their first company, named Traf-O-Data, which sold a rudimentary computer to track and analyze automobile traffic data. While Gates enrolled at Harvard, Allen pursued a degree in computer science at Washington State University, though he later dropped out of school to work at Honeywell.
University Alliance (US) University Alliance (US) "For other uses, see University Alliance Online (disambiguation)" University Alliance Online (US) The University Alliance Online facilitates the promotion and online delivery of associate’s, bachelor's and master's degrees as well as professional certificate programs from the nation’s leading traditional universities and institutions. Powered by University Alliance’s technology and support services, its university partners have surpassed 750,000 online enrollments – making University Alliance the largest facilitator of e-learning in the country. University partners include Villanova University, the University of Notre Dame’s Mendoza College of Business, Michigan State University, the University of San Francisco, the University of Vermont, Florida