This 1978 staff photo shows Microsoft in its early stage – a tiny start-up in Albuquerque, New Mexico, operating out of a modest office tucked beside a strip mall. The people in this photo were the… | The Cyber Security Hub™

This 1978 staff photo shows Microsoft in its early stage – a tiny start-up in Albuquerque, New Mexico, operating out of a modest office tucked beside a strip mall. The people in this photo were the entire company—a small team of young programmers and administrators who believed, long before most, that personal computers were about to reshape the world.

In the front row is a 22-year-old Bill Gates, just months away from relocating the company to Seattle—a move that would define nearly every chapter of Microsoft’s future. The rest of the group were early engineers and staff who spent long, grinding hours writing code, debugging software, and trying to convince others of a vision that seemed radical at the time. The photo captures the moment right before everything changed, before Microsoft grew into a global force.

Did you know? Microsoft’s revenue in 1978 was barely one million dollars. Forty years later, that figure had exploded to more than one hundred billion…