Microsoft is finally launching Windows 10 on July 29th, and there's no better time to talk a walk down memory lane with the company that changed computing forever.

Through this series of photos of both Microsoft's team and its innovative software, take a look back at Microsoft's first 25 years, from Bill Gates and Paul Allen in Albuquerque all the way through Gates' resignation from the CEO job in 2000.

This is the history of Microsoft in photos.