Microsoft Turns 30 - Softpedia

Microsoft Turns 30 - Softpedia: "On Friday, September 23, Microsoft turns 30.
The event will be celebrated at Safeco Field in Seattle, where Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer will present all the software giant's achievements in front of the 16,000 Redmond employees.

Gates and Ballmer will also use this event to reveal the company�s direction, especially since Microsoft has recently announced a new top management scheme.

In the press release related to the event, Ballmer stressed again the importance of the following 18 months for the company. In this interval, Microsoft is preparing to launch several products, twice as many as last year, among which Windows Vista and Office 12. "