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Allen and Gates co-founded Microsoft in Albuquerque. Around 1983, in collaboration with numerous companies, Microsoft created a home computer system, MSX, which contained its own version of the DOS operating system, entitled MSX-DOS; this became relatively popular in Japan, Europe and South America.
Eventually, Microsoft Office became the dominant business suite, with a market share far exceeding that of its competitors.
19951999: Foray into the Web and other ventures On August 24, 1995, it launched a major online service, MSN (Microsoft Network).Then, they developed ActiveX, an application programming interface built on the Microsoft Component Object Model (COM). In 1998 , The company released an update to the consumer version of Windows, Windows 98. Windows 98 came with Internet Explorer 4.0 SP1 (which had Windows Desktop Update bundled), and included new features from Windows 95 OSR 2.x including the FAT32 file system, and new features designed for Windows 98, such as support for multiple displays.