The
first ever mention of “Microsoft” was in a letter from Bill Gates to co-founder
Paul Allen in 1975. Gates initially wrote the company name as Micro-soft, which
made sense considering it’s a portmanteau of “microcomputer” and “software.”
Losing
the hyphen, “Microsoft” was officially registered as a company in November,
1976 in New Mexico where Gates and Allen were working with their first major
customer, MITS. Microsoft didn’t move to its current campus in Redmond,
Washington until 1986.
The
Microsoft logo has changed several times over the years, the current “Pac-Man”
logo was introduced in 1987, but previous to that was the “blibbet” logo that’s
pictured above. The “blibbet” refers to the stylized “o” and was apparently
once the name of a burger served in the Microsoft company cafeteria.
