- "Ax worked out technology-transfer deals with some of the big corporations. They have to keep it slow because if you just dump a hundred years of technological advances overnight the stock market goes nuts. It worked out okay, though. The Andalites can definitely teach us a lot about computer architecture. But it was Microsoft and Sony and Adobe and Nintendo that came up with the killer apps."
- ―Marco[src]
Microsoft is an American software company. During his time on Earth, Elfangor helped Bill Gates create the Microsoft Windows operating system. Following the end of the Yeerk War, Microsoft was given access to Andalite technology due to technology transfer deals overseen by Ax, which Microsoft used to improve their products.
History
- "I had a job writing software for primitive human computers. It was the 1980s on Earth and humans were just beginning to understand computers. I met a lot of humans who were working in the computer field. My human friend Bill used to come over to my room and we would exchange ideas. It was hard for me to simplify my knowledge enough for him to follow. Everything had to be explained in simple human terms, using words like "window" to explain a childishly simple concept."
- ―Elfangor[src]
Microsoft was co-founded by Bill Gates, who in 1980 met a computer software writer named Alan Fangor, unaware that he was actually an Andalite in human morph named Elfangor-Sirinial-Shamtul. Elfangor's work with Gates led to Elfangor bestowing watered down aspects of Andalite operating systems to Gates that could work with primitive human computers, which led to the creation of Microsoft Windows. However, due to Ellimist ensuring that Elfangor was forgotten by everyone on Earth, Elfangor's role in creating Microsoft Windows was unknown in history.[1] By 2001,[note 1] Microsoft had formed a technology transfer deal with the Andalites, under the leadership of Elfangor's brother Aximili-Esgarrouth-Isthill, where Microsoft received Andalite technology and used them to create high-powered applications.[2]
Notes
- ↑ This occurs during the 'One Year Later' time-skip of #54: The Beginning, set one year after the war ended, which was in 2000.