Microsoft Corporation, founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen in 1975, is a leading developer of personal-computer software and also produces hardware, gaming systems, and cloud services. Key milestones include the launch of Windows operating systems and Microsoft Office products, as well as the development of cloud computing services like Microsoft Azure. The company operates globally with over 90,000 employees and numerous subsidiaries, and is also recognized for its significant corporate art collection.

1. MICROSOFT
Inc.

2. INTRODUCTION
 The Microsoft Corporation, an American computer firm, is the
world’s leading developer of personal-computer software
systems and applications. The company also makes electronic
game systems, mobile-phone software, portable media players,
and computer hardware such as keyboards and mice; offers e-
mail services; and publishes books and multimedia titles. Its
main research and development center is located at its
corporate headquarters in Redmond, Wash. The company also
has additional research laboratories in several countries and
sales offices around the globe
 The company was founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen on
April 4, 1975.

3. Microsoft office

4. VISION AND MISSION

5. HISTORY
197
5-
• Microsoft is founded ;they sell BASIC, the first PC computer
language program to MITS Computer, Microsoft's first
customer.
1981
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• Microsoft, Inc. is incorporated; IBM uses Microsoft's 16-bit
operating
system for its first personal computer.
1983
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• Microsoft introduces the Microsoft Mouse and Word for MS-
DOS 1.00. .
1985
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• Microsoft and IBM forge a joint development agreement
and launch Windows 1.0
1989
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• Microsoft co-develop SQL server
1.0.

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

7. CONT.
…
2003
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• Windows Server
launched.
2007
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• Windows Vista was released with Microsoft
Office 2007.
2008
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• Bill Gates leaves Microsoft to persue charity
work.
2009
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• Windows 7
released
2012
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• Windows 8
launches
201
3-
• 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
Window
s
DirectX
Xbox - Game
Console Microsoft
Office Internet
Explorer MSN
Microsoft Office
Microsoft Windows
Server Skype
Nokia

11. Evolution
of
Windows
OS

12. 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)

13. 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.

14. 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 is Visual Studio 2013.
 Visual Studio supports development for both native Windows
platform and .NET Framework.
 Various free editions are also offered for Windows Runtime,
Windows Phone, ASP.NET and Windows desktop development.

15. 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.

16. 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

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

18. WINDOWS AND WINDOWS PHONE
 Windows 3.1
 Windows 95
 Windows 98
 Windows 2000
 Windows Me
 Windows XP
 Windows Server 2003
 Windows Vista
 Windows 7
 Windows 8, and Windows Server
2008..

19. 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.

20. 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.

21. KALHAN RANDULA LIYANAGE