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==History==

==History==

===Company Beginnings===

===Company Beginnings===

The idea of establishing Microsoft began in 1971 when Paul Allen found an article in an electronics magazine about Intel's 4004 chip, the world's first microprocessor. Allen thought that this microprocessor will become better and better. After a year, Intel came up with 8008, which gave Paul Allen and Bill Gates the idea on How Moore's Law really worked. They learned that each generation of microprocessor chip was twice as fast as the previous.They decided to buy the 8008 microprocessor which became the core of a special computer designed to do traffic volume count analysis and which they would to traffic departments. [[Paul Allen]] and [[Bill Gates]] formed '''Traf-O-Data''', their first company.<ref>[http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune-archive/1995/10102/206528/index.htm money.cnn.com]</ref>

The idea of establishing Microsoft began in 1971 when Paul Allen found an article in an electronics magazine about Intel's 4004 chip, the world's first microprocessor. Allen thought that this microprocessor will become better and better. After a year, Intel came up with 8008, which gave Paul Allen and Bill Gates the idea on How Moore's Law really worked. They learned that each generation of microprocessor chip was twice as fast as the previous.They decided to buy the 8008 microprocessor which became the core of a special computer designed to do traffic volume count analysis and which they would to traffic departments. [[Paul Allen]] and [[Bill Gates]] formed '''Traf-O-Data''', their first company.<ref>[http://www.nyu.edu/classes/keefer/ww1/garrid.html]</ref>