Microsoft Corporation is a multinational technology company founded in 1975 by Bill Gates and Paul Allen. It develops software, services, and consumer electronics. Microsoft's major products include the Windows operating system, the Microsoft Office suite of productivity software including Word and Excel, and the Internet Explorer web browser. The company has over 110 subsidiaries, 190,000 employees worldwide, and $110 billion in annual revenue, making it one of the largest software companies in the world.

1. MICROSOFT Inc.

2. OUTLINE
 Introduction
 Vision and Mission
 History
 Worldwide company strength
 About Microsoft segments and Products
 Fun facts about Microsoft

3. INTRODUCTION
 Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational software
corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington.
 It develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide
range of products and services related to computing.
 The world’s largest software maker measured by revenues.
 It is also one of the world’s most valuable company.
 The company was founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen on
April 4, 1975.

4. VISION AND MISSION

5. HISTORY
1975-
• Microsoft is founded ;they sell BASIC, the first PC computer language
program to MITS Computer, Microsoft's first customer.
1981-
• Microsoft, Inc. is incorporated; IBM uses Microsoft's 16-bit operating
system for its first personal computer.
1983-
• Microsoft introduces the Microsoft Mouse andWord for MS-DOS 1.00. .
1985-
• Microsoft and IBM forge a joint development agreement and launch
Windows 1.0
1989-
• Microsoft co-develop SQL server 1.0.

6. CONT.…
1992-
• IntroducingWindows 3.1
1994-
• Windows NT
1995-
• Windows 95
2000-
• First Beta of .NET Framework released
2001- • Windows XP released

7. CONT.…
2003-
• Windows Server launched.
2007-
• WindowsVista was released with Microsoft Office 2007.
2008-
• Bill Gates leaves Microsoft to persue charity work.
2009-
• Windows 7 released
2012-
• Windows 8 launches
2013-
• Windows 8.1 with Office 2013 releases

8. WORLDWIDE COMPANY STRENGTH
110 subsidiaries
$580 billion partner revenue
90000 employees
191 countries
640000 partners

9.  Advanced Technology
 Applications and Services Engineering Group
 Cloud and Enterprise Engineering Group
 Devices Group
 Dynamics
 Operating Systems Engineering Group
 Technology and Research
 Business Development and Evangelism Group
 Finance Group
 HR Group
 Legal and Corporate Affairs Group
MICROSOFT SEGMENTS

10. PRODUCTS OWNED BY MICROSOFT
Bing
Windows
DirectX
Xbox - Game Console
Microsoft Office
Internet Explorer
MSN
Microsoft Office
MicrosoftWindows Server
Skype
Nokia

11. MICROSOFT OFFICE
 The software product includes :
 Word (a word processor)
 Access (a personal relational database application)
 Excel (a spreadsheet program)
 Outlook (Groupware, frequently used with Exchange Server)
 PowerPoint (presentation software)
 Publisher (desktop publishing software)

12. OFFICE 365
 An online office and software plus services suite named which is a subscription
service for Microsoft Office products.
 A number of other products were added later with the release of Office 2013
including
 Visio
 Project
 MapPoint
 InfoPath
 OneNote.

13. VISUAL STUDIO
 The company's set of programming tools and compilers.
 The software product is GUI-oriented and links easily with the Windows APIs.
 The current version isVisual Studio 2013.
 Visual Studio supports development for both nativeWindows platform and .NET
Framework.
 Various free editions are also offered for Windows Runtime, Windows Phone,
ASP.NET andWindows desktop development.

14. MICROSOFT AZURE
 The company's cloud computing platform that hosts virtual machines, websites
and more.
 It provides both platform as a service (PaaS) and infrastructure as a service (IaaS)
services.
 It supports many different programming languages, tools and frameworks,
including both Microsoft-specific and third-party software and systems.

15. MICROSOFT SERVERS
 Microsoft offers a suite of server software, entitled Microsoft Servers for private
clouds.
 Windows Server 2012
 SQL Server Exchange Server
 Systems Management Server

16. WINDOWS EMBEDDED
 A group of operating systems designed to be used in embedded
systems.
 Windows CE
 Windows Embedded Standard
 Windows Embedded Industry and more.

17. WINDOWS AND WINDOWS PHONE
 Windows 3.1
 Windows 95
 Windows 98
 Windows 2000
 Windows Me
 Windows XP
 Windows Server 2003
 WindowsVista
 Windows 7
 Windows 8, andWindows Server 2008..

18. FUN FACTS ABOUT MICROSOFT
 The first ever mention of “Microsoft” was in the letter from
Bill-Gates to co-founder Paul Allen in 1975.
 The “blibbet” logo shown below refers to stylized “o” and
was apparently once was the name of burger served in the
Microsoft company cafeteria.

19. CONT.…
 The Microsoft sound: Pioneering musician Brian Eno was the
musical brains behind windows 95’s start tune dubbed “The
Microsoft sound” .
 Microsoft has spilt its stock nine times since it went public
back in 1986 and the company will generally split its stock
when its share prize goes too high.
 Microsoft is one of the largest corporate collectors of
artworks over 5,000 contemporary pieces including
paintings, sculpture, works on paper, photographs, ceramics,
studio glass and multimedia works.

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