The PC Timeline at PC Museum: "April 1975 Bill Gates and Paul Allen found Micro-Soft. The hyphen is later dropped to Microsoft."

This is the most detailed interview I've seen with Bill Gates, giving his personal perspective on the creation and early years of Microsoft.

Larry Osterman, looks back at 20 years with Microsoft: "I’ve watched Microsoft grow from 650ish people to well over 50,000"

The History of Computing Project has a very detailed history of Microsoft from 1975 to 1998.

"Hobbyists became entrepreneurs - some more successfully than others. Personal computers proliferated, with no standards and no preconceived notions of what these new machines could be or could do. It was an adventure shared by a virtual handful of enthusiasts..."

The Histories of Microsoft according to Wikipedia, and Encarta. 

Official History from Microsoft: Key Events in Microsoft History (more at Microsoft.com Corp FAQs)

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