4주차｜기술·ICT·정보보안_신효민 Microsoft 50th Anniversary

[신효민]

Microsoft 50th Anniversary + Copilot Event

Speaker: Microsoft Mustafa Suleyman – EVP and CEO, Microsoft AI

Date: Friday, April 4, 2025

Words: 425

Glossary

1. Bill Gates, Steve Ballmer and Satya Nadella  빌 게이츠, 스티브 발머, 사티아 나델라, 

2. windows os cd-rom 윈도우 운영체제 CD-ROM

3. Encarta 엔카르타 ( MS에서 발행했던 디지털 멀티미디어 백과사전)

4. Solitaire 솔리테어 (윈도우 기본 탑재 카드게임)

5. ICQ (1990년대 인스턴트 메신저)

Thank you.

What an incredible moment.

First of all, thank you everyone for joining us this morning to celebrate 50 years of relentless and exceptional innovation.

I’d like to especially welcome my friends, mentors and great inspirations sitting here with us today.

Three historic CEOs: Bill Gates, Steve Ballmer and Satya Nadella.

It’s so great to have you guys here.

And it really is an extraordinary honor for me personally to be on this stage.

It’s amazing to step back and think how they, along with thousands of Microsoft employees, have brought the power of computing to every corner of the planet over the last 50 years.

Over a billion and a half people use Windows every day to do everything from writing a thank you letter to a friend, to running a national government.

Microsoft has been a huge part of my own life too.

I remember being just 11 years old and opening a bright blue cardboard box.

Inside was a Windows OS CD-ROM.

Honestly, that feeling was electrifying.

After months and months of nagging and begging and a heck of a lot of extra household chores,

I finally persuaded my parents to buy me a PC.

It had a Pentium processor, 256 MB of hard disk, eight megs of RAM, and that RAM was critical because it let me install Windows 95. It’s no exaggeration to say that that machine completely transformed my life. My dad didn’t speak very good English. My mom wasn’t really into books.

We never had any newspapers at home.

But all of a sudden, I had access to all this information.

Windows opened a whole new world for me.

I spent endless hours on Encarta.

I played all kinds of games.

I mean, who could forget Solitaire?

I could chat to my friends on ICQ, surf the web, do my homework, and most importantly of all, I could do it all on my own.

It was freedom and adventure, and it got me started in life.

And quite frankly, it got me right here where I am today.

This, to me, is what technology and Microsoft are really all about.

Because there is nothing inevitable about the future.

You have to build it.

And at Microsoft, that’s what we’ve been doing for 50 years.

In doing so, we’ve helped billions of people like me to get a head start, to learn, to create, and then go on to create futures of our very own.

It’s an awesome, virtuous cycle, helping to drive forward progress.

Decade after decade.