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Microsoft is 50 this week - 6 times they pushed the industry forward
It's hard to see a software industry without Microsoft in it.
Microsoft turned 50 on April 4, and among the revelry, it released some spiffing new Windows wallpapers in celebration. We thought we should do a word (or so) in celebration as well; after all, it was a Windows Mobile PDA, the O2 XDA, that spawned our site over two decades ago. That's right; we might never have existed as a forum or a blog without Microsoft, but we're far from alone in that.
