The Microsoft Story

Log on to Microsoft's website and navigate to its corporate history section, and you'll find this positive kind of all-embracing, boy-next-door, we-can-do-it rhetoric:¹

To some, our company's early vision, "A PC on every desk and in every home," must have seemed like science fiction. But Bill Gates and Paul Allen, who cofounded Microsoft in 1975, were passionate about the same idea. They envisioned bringing computers to life by developing software, the instructions that make electronic devices work, that would make computing power accessible to everyone.
...in 1975, Bill Gates and Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen saw the potential to turn a hobbyist into something more.
At Microsoft, we believe that the true measure of our success is not just in the power of our software, but in the potential it unleashes in us all.... With great ideas—and great software—our future has no limits.