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Which came first, the Ford Motor Company or Microsoft?

Which came first, the Ford Motor Company or Microsoft?
the Ford Motor Company
1903 — 72 years before Microsoft

the Ford Motor Company came first, by 72 years. Ford Motor Company was incorporated in Detroit.

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the Ford Motor Company Microsoft
Year 1903 1975
Date 1903-06-16 1975-04-04
Category company company
What happened Ford Motor Company was incorporated in Detroit. Gates and Allen founded Micro-Soft in Albuquerque.

the Ford Motor Company

Ford was incorporated in June 1903, fourteen years after Nintendo and six months before the Wright brothers flew. The Model T followed in 1908 and the moving assembly line in 1913, which cut the time to build a car from twelve hours to about ninety minutes. Ford was Henry Ford's third attempt at a car company; the first two failed.

Microsoft

Microsoft was founded in April 1975 to sell a BASIC interpreter for the Altair 8800 — a product they had demonstrated before writing all of it. It predates Apple by almost exactly one year. The hyphen was dropped in 1976 and the company moved to Washington state in 1979.

Common questions

Which came first, the Ford Motor Company or Microsoft?
the Ford Motor Company, by 72 years — 1903 against 1975.
When did the Ford Motor Company start?
1903. Ford Motor Company was incorporated in Detroit.
When did Microsoft start?
1975. Gates and Allen founded Micro-Soft in Albuquerque.

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