New Delhi, April 5 -- On April 4, 1975, Bill Gates and Paul Allen founded Micro-Soft, marking the beginning of what would become Microsoft. Just five years later, in 1980, the company secured a deal with IBM to supply software for its first personal computer.

On Saturday, in a post on Instagram, Bill Gates wrote, "Happy 50th birthday, @microsoft. Thanks for the memories-and awkward photo shoots." In the reel, he mentioned, "Unfortunately, I'll never feel cool again because this was me in the early Microsoft days".

Earlier on Friday, while the code Gates typed on a teletype machine may seem primitive compared to today's advanced AI systems, it was pivotal in founding Microsoft in April 1975-a milestone the Redmond, Washington-based compa...