where is microsoft company?
The company's first international office was founded on November 1, 1978, in Japan, entitled . ASCII Microsoft (now called  Microsoft Japan ), and on November 29, 1979, the term, Microsoft was first used by Bill Gates. On January 1, 1979, the company moved from Albuquerque to a new home in Bellevue, Washington, since it was hard to recruit top programmers to Albuquerque.