ContentLibrary1.jpg' alt='Microsoft Office 12 Object Library File Name Or Extension Is Too Long' title='Microsoft Office 12 Object Library File Name Or Extension Is Too Long' />History of Microsoft Wikipedia. Microsoft logo since August 2. Microsoft is a multinational computer technology corporation. Microsoft was founded on April 4, 1. Bill Gates and Paul Allen in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Its current best selling products are the Microsoft Windowsoperating system, Microsoft Office suite of productivity software, Xbox, a line of entertainment of games, music and video, and Bing, a line of search engines. In 1. 98. 0, Microsoft formed a partnership with IBM to bundle Microsofts operating system with IBM computers with that deal, IBM paid Microsoft a royalty for every sale. In 1. 98. 5, IBM requested Microsoft to develop a new operating system for their computers called OS2. Microsoft produced that operating system, but also continued to sell their own alternative, which proved to be in direct competition with OS2. Microsoft Windows eventually overshadowed OS2 in terms of sales. When Microsoft launched several versions of Microsoft Windows in the 1. PR3wLJghQYI/UB2iFxRrPLI/AAAAAAAABdo/KdBltcSeb2Y/s1600/embedded+v2003+PPT+slide+-+import+as+BIN.png' alt='Microsoft Office 12 Object Library File Name Or Extension Is Too Long' title='Microsoft Office 12 Object Library File Name Or Extension Is Too Long' />As of June 3. Microsoft has a global annual revenue of 8. Billion USD and 1. It develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of software products for computing devices. Contents. The founding of Microsoft. Sometimes, NASA gets to have a bit of funwith asteroids. This fall, the agency will have a grand ol time with one such object called 2012 TC4, which will whizz. MSDN Magazine Issues and Downloads. Read the magazine online, download a formatted digital version of each issue, or grab sample code and apps. The best answer to that is a very long string of words. As the webcomic xkcd famously pointed out, a bunch of plain words is pretty good. But as many hackers use. Windows and Office. Foray into the Web, Windows 9. Windows XP, and Xbox. Microsoft Azure, Windows Vista, Windows 7, and Microsoft Stores. Windows 8, Xbox One, Outlook. Surface devices. 62. Windows 1. 0, Windows 1. Mobile, Microsoft Edge and Holo. Lens. 7See also. 8References. External links. 19. The founding of Microsoftedit. Microsoft staff in Albuquerque, December 7, 1. Top Steve Wood, Bob Wallace, Jim Lane. Middle Bob ORear, Bob Greenberg, Marc Mc. Donald, Gordon Letwin. Bottom Bill Gates, Andrea Lewis, Marla Wood, Paul Allen. Not pictured Ric Weiland, Miriam Lubow6Gates described this photo in 2. The idea that would spawn Microsoft initiated when Paul Allen showed Bill Gates the first of January, 1. Popular Electronics that demonstrated the Altair 8. Allen and Gates saw potential to develop an implementation of the programming language. Colors In R Statistical Software on this page. BASICinterpreter for the system. Bill Gates called the creators of the new microcomputer, Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems MITS, offering to demonstrate the implementation in order to win a contract with the company. Allen and Gates had neither an interpreter nor an Altair system, yet in the eight weeks before the demo, they developed an interpreter. When Allen flew to Albuquerque to meet with MITS, the interpreter worked and MITS agreed to distribute Altair BASIC. Allen and Gates left Boston, where Allen worked for Honeywell and Gates was enrolled in Harvard,1. Albuquerque where MITS was located, and co founded Microsoft there. Revenues of the company totaled 1. Allen came up with the original name of Micro Soft, a portmanteau of microcomputer and software. Hyphenated in its early incarnations, on November 2. Secretary of State of New Mexico. The companys first international office was founded on November 1, 1. Japan, entitled ASCII Microsoft now called Microsoft Japan, and on November 2. Microsoft was first used by Bill Gates. On January 1, 1. Albuquerque to a new home in Bellevue, Washington,8 since it was hard to recruit top programmers to Albuquerque. Shortly before the move, eleven of the then thirteen employees posed for the staff photo on the right. Steve Ballmer joined the company on June 1. Bill Gates as CEO8 from January 2. February 2. 01. 4. The company restructured on June 2. Washington with a further change of its name to Microsoft Corporation, Inc. As part of the restructuring, Bill Gates became president of the company and chairman of the board, and Paul Allen became Executive Vice President. Microsofts early products were different variants of Microsoft BASIC which was the dominant programming language in late 1. Apple II Applesoft BASIC and Commodore 6. Commodore BASIC, and were also provided with early versions of the IBM PC as the IBM Cassette BASIC. Microsoft also marketed through an Apple dealer in West Palm Beach, Florida two products for the Radio Shack TRS 8. One was Typing Tutor which led the user through learning to use a keyboard. The other was authored by a professor at the University of Hawaii called Mu. MATH and had the ability to do mathematics in long integer math to avoid floating point numbers. In this sense it was similar to the early ARPANET. The first hardware product1. Z 8. 0 Soft. Card which enabled the Apple II to run the CPMoperating system, at the time an industry standard operating system for running business software and many compilers and interpreters for several high level languages on microcomputers. The Soft. Card was first demonstrated publicly at the West Coast Computer Faire in March 1. It was an immediate success 5,0. Microsofts number one revenue source in 1. The first operating system publicly released by the company was a variant of Unix announced on August 2. Acquired from AT T through a distribution license, Microsoft dubbed it Xenix, and hired Santa Cruz Operation in order to portadapt the operating system to several platforms. This Unix variant would become home to the first version of Microsofts word processor, Microsoft Word. Originally titled Multi Tool Word, Microsoft Word became notable for its use of What You See Is What You Get, or WYSIWYG pioneered by the Xerox Alto and the Bravo text editor in the 1. Word was first released in the spring of 1. November 1. 98. 3 issue of PC World, making it the first program to be distributed on disk with a magazine. However, Xenix was never sold to end users directly although it was licensed to many software OEMs for resale. It grew to become the most popular version of Unix, measured by the number of machines running it2. Unix is a multi user operating system, allowing simultaneous access to a machine by several users. By the mid 1. 98. Microsoft had gotten out of the Unix business, except for an interest in SCO. DOS Disk Operating System was the operating system that brought the company its real success. IBM first approached Microsoft about its upcoming IBM Personal Computer IBM PC in July 1. On August 1. 2, 1. Digital Research failed, IBM awarded a contract to Microsoft to provide a version of the CPM operating system, which was set to be used in the IBM PC. For this deal, Microsoft purchased a CPM clone called 8. DOS from Tim Paterson of Seattle Computer Products for less than US1. IBM renamed to IBM PC DOS. Microsoft did not have an operating system when they closed the deal with IBM and IBM had not done their homework. Due to potential copyright infringement problems with CPM, IBM marketed both CPM and PC DOS for US2. US4. 0, respectively, with PC DOS eventually becoming the standard because of its lower price. IBM project for more than a year. When the IBM PC debuted, Microsoft was the only company that offered operating system, programming language, and application software for the new computer. Info. World stated in 1. Microsoft, with 5. Claiming more than a million installed MS DOS machines, founder and chairman Bill Gates has decided to certify Microsofts jump on the rest of the industry by dominating applications, operating systems, peripherals and, most recently, book publishing. Some insiders say Microsoft is attempting to be the IBM of the software industry. Change data source mail merge. Do you have the same problem if you try to connect a completely new Word document to the data source If so, probably something wrong with the Excel file if you can reconstruct it, or even create a test file with the same sheet name and column names. For the default OLE DB connection type, the SQL message is the correct one the SQL does not reference the workbook path or name that comes from the file name or connection string which is not displayed in that dialog box. When you see the SQL warning and click Yes, do you then see a dialog box which provides the workbook pathname. Does that file exist Is it the one you expect If yes, again, I would suspect the Excel file. If no, the wrong data source is sticking. That will happen if the previous data source has not been properly disconnected e. If you proceed from the dialog I mention, then choose the option to find the data source in the next or subsequent dialog, it does then appear that you have corrected. Word reverts to the previous source the next time you open. Typically clicking Yes in the SQL dialog box should disconnect the old data source, but I would at least make sure by e. Normal Word Document in the mailings tab.