Green? For the first half-dozen years I never saw any Microsoft documents in color. I have several Microsoft manuals and binders from when their office was in Arizona and all of those are black on white. Later stuff from when they moved to a suite in Bellevue was still in black and white. I didn't see any green until 1980-1982 when Microsoft was selling Digital Research's CP/M with their Softcard (Z-80 drop-in for the Apple II).

BASIC implementation for dozens of personal computers in the late 70's and very early 80's, most importantly.

Absolutely. Applesoft BASIC (in every II+ and later, and installed as an option in most II's) was written by Microsoft. Microsoft also sold several well-known Apple II games (ADVENTURE is the most well-known).

You know, I could go on for pages and pages with software that Microsoft sold in the late 70's and early 80's for non PC-platforms. You'd probably be much better educated about computing in that era if you simply went and found the _BYTE_ magazines from that time frame and read the ads.

Tim. (shoppa(a)triumf.ca)