Founded in 1975, it rose swiftly to dominate the world of personal computing with its Windows operating system and Office suite of word-processing and other productivity tools.

创建于1975年，得益于其视窗操作系统、文字和其他提高办公效率套装软件，微软迅速在个人电脑领域占据统治地位。

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Computing has changed radically since Microsoft rose to prominence 25 years ago with its operating system for IBM's personal computer.

自从25年前微软通过替IBM的个人计算机编写操作系统而声名鹊起之后，计算机领域发生了巨大的变化。

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TOGETHER Microsoft, the maker of the Windows operating system, and Intel, the world’s biggest maker of semiconductors, used to rule the world of personal computing.

微软（Windows操作系统的开发者）和英特尔（世界最大的半导体制造商），曾联手统治了个人电脑市场。

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Founded in 1975, it rose swiftly to dominate the world of personal computing with its Windows operating system and Office suite of word-processing and other productivity tools.

ECONOMIST: The software giant is grappling with a mid-life crisis