We interview Richard Brodie, one of the creators of Microsoft Word. Find out why he now loves to use Apple products ...
Category: History
The Class Of 2006 – BuzzFeed
Read the story of how Jonah Peretti founded new website BuzzFeed in 2006.
Jason Scott
Check out our file conversion API - convert 100s of formats with just a few lines of code. In a special series Zamzar take a look at some of the people who have helped shape technology and made it…
Landing on Zamzar: How we chose our company name
When starting up a business, one of the key decisions to make is what your company will be called. Let us tell you a story from 2005, before Zamzar was born ... What’s in a name?Your company name can say…
The Class Of 2006 – Twitter
A potted history of Twitter the company - how it came to be, when it was launched and who the key players were that made it happen.
Celebrating 30+ years of MS Word
A potted history of how Microsoft Word came to be. From the early days of DOS to Clippy the dreaded Paperclip, we cover it all.
Zamzar is 10 Years Young
We're celebrating our birthday here at Zamzar HQ - ten years ago today we launched the Zamzar website with a simple mission: Things were very different ten years ago. In Internet years that's like 8 centuries ... A potted history…
The dream boss? What it was like to work for Bill Gates
This is part three of a series of stories by Robert Gaskins who helped invent PowerPoint at Forethought Inc. in 1984 (see part one and part two). It was the first significant acquisition made by Microsoft. We spoke to Robert about the process of building a startup in the…
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Life before the web – Running a Startup in the 1980’s
This is part two of a series of stories by Robert Gaskins who helped invent PowerPoint at Forethought Inc. in 1984 (read part one here). It was the first significant acquisition made by Microsoft. We spoke to Robert about building a startup in the 1980s and…
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Deal of the century? How Microsoft beat Apple to buy PowerPoint for $14 million
Thanks for stopping by 👋🏾 Why not check out our file conversion API - convert 100s of different file formats in just one line of code (we even support PowerPoint files!) This is part one of a series of…
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