Microsoft’s 50th birthday party sure was eventful

Microsoft’s 50th day stage.

I wasn’t truly definite what to expect from Microsoft’s 50th day party. Sure, cofounder Bill Gates and erstwhile Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer would beryllium there, but I was keen to spot however Microsoft would make a enactment ambiance portion besides launching caller Copilot features. As it happens, having 3 CEOs onstage, immoderate energetic hosts, and worker protesters definite kept things eventful.

The time kicked disconnected with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella reminiscing astir however cofounders Bill Gates and Paul Allen built Microsoft 50 years ago, including however the brace created the bundle for the Altair 8800, an aboriginal idiosyncratic computer. Nadella besides looked up to the adjacent 50 years and demonstrated immoderate improvements to GitHub Copilot that let anyone to code. “What started retired arsenic a developer tools institution 50 years agone is present a level institution wherever everyone tin beryllium a developer,” said Nadella. “Our ngo has not changed, it’s lone expanded.”

Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman appeared onstage adjacent to locomotion done caller Copilot features and reminisce connected however important Microsoft had been to him increasing up. At conscionable 11 years old, helium convinced his parents to bargain a PC with a Pentium processor and 8MB …

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