Microsoft Corporation is a multinational software company headquartered in Redmond, Washington. It was founded in 1975 by Bill Gates and Paul Allen and has grown to employ over 90,000 employees worldwide serving over 1 billion users. Microsoft is best known for its Windows operating systems, Office productivity software, Xbox video game consoles, and Bing search engine. It has acquired several major companies over the years including Skype, Nokia, LinkedIn, and Hotmail to expand its business offerings.

2. Microsoft Corporation
is an American multinational software
corporation headquartered in Redmond,
Washington that develops, manufactures,
licenses, and supports a wide range of
products and services related to computing.

3. • The company was founded by Bill Gates and Paul
Allen on April 4, 1975.
Started as their hobby in high school,
programming on the original PDP-10 from the
Digital Equipment Corporation.
Started as a version of the BASIC
programming language.

4. 1975
• Microsoft is founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen; they sell
BASIC, the first PC computer language program to MITS
Computer, Microsoft's first customer
1981
• IBM uses Microsoft's 16-bit operating system for its first
personal computer.
1992
• The company introduces Windows 3.1. Windows now has over
25 million licensed users.
1995
• In, 1995 Microsoft launch windows 95 and sell 1 million copies
in 4 days
Starting of Microsoft :

5. 2001
• Microsoft Windows XP is released internationally. In 2002,
Great plain software is acquired by Microsoft
2008
• Bill gates leaves Microsoft to pursue charity work.
2009
• In this year Microsoft released windows 7. Beats all previous
records of sales.
2010
• For the first time, Apple comes close to Microsoft and becoming
the most valuable technology company in America.
2013
• Windows 8.1 was released to consumers along with Office 2013.
Starting of Microsoft (cont. ) :

6.  Microsoft is the world’s largest
software maker measured by
revenues. It is also one of the
world’s most valuable company .
It appreciates 384 billion of
dollars .

7. World wide:-
O110 subsidiaries
O90,000 Employees
O191 countries
O640,000 Partners
OMore than 1 Billion Users

8. O ”A computer on every desk, and in every
home.”
O "Create experiences that combine the
magic of software with the power of
Internet services Across a world of
devices."

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11. Some famous subsidiaries:
O Skype is proprietary Voice a over
O IP service and software application.
O It developed into a platform with over 600 million users
and was bought by Microsoft in 2011 for $8.5 billion.
O The service allows users to communicate with peers by
voice using a microphone, video by using a webcam,
and instant messaging over the Internet.
O Skype's original proposed name (Sky Peer-to-Peer)
reflects this fact.

12. O Hotmail was a free web-based email service operated
by Microsoft as part of Windows Live.
O It was recently replaced by the newer Outlook service
by Microsoft.
O Hotmail was one of the first web-based email services,
it was founded by Saber Bhatia and Jack Smith and
launched in July 1996 as Hotmail.
O It was acquired by Microsoft in 1997 for an estimated
$400 million, and shortly after, it was rebranded as
"MSN Hotmail". The current version was released in
2011.

13. O Microsoft Windows is a series of graphical interface
operating systems developed, marketed and sold by
Microsoft.
O Microsoft introduced an operating environment named
Window on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-
DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical
user interfaces (GUIs).
O Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's
personal computer market with over 90% market share,
overtaking Mac OS, which had been introduced in 1984.
O Latest Operating System Are – Window 8.

14.  The Xbox is a video game console manufactured by
Microsoft.
 It was released on November 15, 2001 in North America,
February 22, 2002 in Japan, and March 14, 2002 in
Australia and Europe.
 It was Microsoft's first foray into the gaming console market.
 The integrated Xbox Live service launched in November
2002 allowed players to play games online with a broadband
connection.
 Xbox's successor, the Xbox 360, was launched in November
2005.

15.  Bing is a web search engine (advertised as a "decision
engine") from Microsoft.
 Bing was unveiled by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer on
May 28,2009 at the All Things Digital conference in San
Diego for release on June.
 On July 29, 2009, Microsoft and Yahoo! announced a
deal in which Bing would power Yahoo! Search.
 Bing Available in 40 Languages.

16.  Internet Explorer is a series of graphical web browsers
developed by Microsoft and included as part of the
Microsoft Windows line of operating systems, starting in
1995.
 It was first released as part of the add-on package Plus!
for Windows 95 that year.
 Later versions were available as free downloads, or in
service packs, and included in the OEM service releases
of Windows 95 and later versions of Windows.
 The latest stable release is IE 10, with a new interface
allowing for use as both a desktop application, and as a
Windows 8 application.

17.  SkyDrive is a file hosting service
O that allows users to upload and sync files to a cloud
storage and then access them from a Web browser or
their local device.
 The service offers 7 GB of free storage for new users.
Additional storage is available for purchase.
 Users who signed up to Sky Drive prior to April 22, 2012
could opt-in for a limited time offer of 25 GB of free
storage upgrade.
 The service is built using HTML5 technologies.

18. O NOKIA, is a Finnish multinational communications
and information technology company.
O founded in 1865. Nokia is headquartered in
Espoo.
O In 2014, Nokia employed 61,656 people across
120 countries, and reported annual revenues of
around €12.73 billion.
O Its mobile phone business was eventually bought
by Microsoft in an overall deal totaling $7.17
billion.

19. O LinkedIn is a business and social networking
service.
O Founded on December 14, 2002, and launched
on May 5, 2003,
O it is mainly used for professional networking,
including employers posting jobs and job
seekers posting their CVs
O it has more than 467 million accounts, which
more than 106 million are active.
O On June 13, 2016, Microsoft announced plans
to acquire LinkedIn for $26.2 billion.

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