Microsoft

About Microsoft

Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational computer technology corporation with 76,000 employees in 102 countries and global annual revenue of US $44.28 billion. It develops, manufactures, licenses and supports a wide range of software products for computing devices.

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Originally founded to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800, Microsoft rose to dominate the home computer operating system market with MS-DOS in the mid-1980s. The company released an initial public offering (IPO) in the stock market, which, due to the ensuing rise of the stock price, has made four billionaires and an estimated 12,000 millionaires from Microsoft employees. Throughout its history the company has been the target of criticism for various reasons, including monopolistic business practices—both the U.S. Justice Department and the European Commission, among others, brought Microsoft to court for antitrust violations and software bundling.

Microsoft has footholds in other markets besides operating systems and office suites, with assets such as the MSNBC cable television network, the MSN Internet portal, and the Microsoft Encarta multimedia encyclopedia. The company also markets both computer hardware products such as the Microsoft mouse and home entertainment products such as the Xbox, Xbox 360, Zune and MSN TV. Gates left Harvard University, moved to Albuquerque, New Mexico where MITS was located, and founded Microsoft there. The company's first international office was founded on November 1, 1978, in Japan, entitled "ASCII Microsoft" (now called "Microsoft Japan"). The company expanded into new markets with the release of the Microsoft Mouse in 1983, as well as a publishing division named Microsoft Press. On March 13, the company went public with an IPO, priced at US $28.00 by the end of the trading day. In 1987, Microsoft eventually released their first version of OS/2 to OEMs.
In 1989, Microsoft introduced its most successful office product, Microsoft Office. This was a bundle of separate office productivity applications, such as Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel. The new version of Microsoft's operating system boasted such new features as streamlined user interface graphics and improved protected mode capability for the Intel 386 processor; it sold over 100,000 copies in two weeks. Windows at the time generated more revenue for Microsoft than OS/2, and the company decided to move more resources from OS/2 to Windows. In the ensuing years, the popularity of OS/2 declined, and Windows quickly became the favored PC platform.

During the transition from MS-DOS to Windows, the success of Microsoft's product Microsoft Office allowed the company to gain ground on application-software competitors, such as WordPerfect and Lotus 1-2-3."

Quotes about Microsoft

1. “ The IDEA lab is set to release its first set of business solutions during the Microsoft Convergence 2008 in US ”

   In Zylog Systems launches its new facility

2. “ For Yahoo, [it] would add a key component that Microsoft can't -- content. ”

   In International: News Corp./Yahoo Combo Would Yield Display-Ad Powerhouse

3. “ Well, they all need to change. If Microsoft sticks to its old ways it will fail as a company. ”

   Don Tapscott in Towards A Wiki World

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2. Cleartrip Launches Cleartrip For Business - Diversification In Tough Times?

   WATBlog.com (2 hours, 5 min ago) Travel Explore Article

   ... with times and dates. It also supports the iCalendar standard which is supported by Apple, Google, Microsoft, Yahoo and many others. Currently the site is in private beta and only limited to a few corporates ... (Read Full Article)
   

   Comment on Article Mentions:   TiE   Google   Apple Inc.

3. Niche Profiles Offered to FMS-Delhi Batch of 2010 during Summer ...

   MBA Portal (Nov 19 2008) Explore Article

   ...mers 2008 also saw the participation of companies like Vodafone, GE Corporate, Citibank, IDFC SSKI, Microsoft, Cognizant, Coca Cola, ITC, Nestle, Godrej et al, offering profiles in a range of sectors. With mul... (Read Full Article)
   

   Comment on Article Mentions:   Helion Venture Partners   Apple Inc.   Vodafone

4. Yahoo To Hire New CEO As Yang Steps Down.. And Fire Atleast 3500 by 10th December

   WATBlog.com (Nov 18 2008) Explore Article

   ...ansformation of its platform’. Really? Strategic repositioning? Like turning down the offer from Microsoft? Jerry Yang had this to say about stepping down as the CEO “From founding this company to guiding... (Read Full Article)
   

   Comment on Article Mentions:   Jerry Yang   Yahoo   Microsoft

5. Yang Steps Down, As Yahoo Looks For A New CEO

   MediaNama.com (Nov 18 2008) Explore Article

   ... company. Yang had replaced Terry Semel as CEO in June 2007. The real trouble for Yahoo began when Microsoft made a public, and almost boisterous $44.6 Billion, $31 per share bid for Yahoo in February this ye... (Read Full Article)
   

   Comment on Article Mentions:   Yahoo Search   Google   Steve Ballmer

6. Event Update: India Gaming Summit 2008

   WATBlog.com (Nov 17 2008) Gaming Explore Article

   ...ales, South East Asia, NVIDIA * Mr. Jaspreet Bindra, Regional Director - Entertainment and Devices, Microsoft India. * Mr (Read Full Article)
   

   Comment on Article Mentions:   Kreeda   Zapak   Regional Director

7. Country Head of Gameloft India Speaks On Mobile Games

   GameGuru (Nov 14 2008) Gaming , Mobile Explore Article

   ...nd I don’t think we need to tackle this issue very strongly at this point because we are not like Microsoft, we don’t have such a big business that’s one and two we cant really transfer a mobile game fro... (Read Full Article)
   

   Comment on Article Mentions:   Mauj Telecom   Apple Inc.   Vodafone

8. Reduce Data Center Cost through NetScaler 9

   enterpriser.in (Nov 12 2008) Explore Article

   ... reduce the cost of delivering enterprise web applications by up to 50% - running applications like Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, Oracle E-Business Suite and SAP solutions, without requiring any of ... (Read Full Article)
   

   Comment on Article Mentions:   Citrix Systems   Oracle   Microsoft

9. Content Syndicate wins TiE-ISB award

   uk.zawya.com (Nov 12 2008) Explore Article

   ... awardZawya (press release), United Arab Emirates - 1 hour agoSponsors included Sun Microsystems, Microsoft, Times of India Group Satyam, Totem Infrastructure and the Indu Group. This is the third year for T... (Read Full Article)
   

   Comment on Article Mentions:   TiE   Sun Microsystems   University of Pennsylvania

10. Bill Gates in Delhi - Nov 6th, 2008- Opening wallets to Fund Medical Research

    VentureWoods (Nov 10 2008) Explore Article

    ...Yet) Loading ... Loading ... Tags: 2008, Bill Gates, IIT Delhi, Melinda and Bill Gates Foundation, Microsoft. I attended Mr.Bill Gates’ talk– heard some very interesting ideas from Mr.Gates about openin... (Read Full Article)
    

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Bill Gates   Microsoft

11. Weekly Wrapup (3-7 November)

    MediaNama.com (Nov 9 2008) Mobile , Social Networking Explore Article

    ...iscal, a bulk of sales coming in the last few months. They expect to break even by the end of FY10. Microsoft India has launched maps powered by Navteq, a company which was acquired by Nokia last year. Nokia has its... (Read Full Article)
    

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Minglebox   GroupM   Rediff

12. Microsoft Introduced BizSpark Program for Tech Startups

    IndianWeb2.com (Nov 6 2008) Explore Article

    ...rvice’ solution delivered over the internet. The program will no doubt will provide startups with Microsoft’s current full-featured development tools, platform technologies, and production/hosti... (Read Full Article)
    

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Microsoft

13. Modi calls for a nano of IT

    India Business Blog (Nov 6 2008) Explore Article

    ...g away from the chip makers, India do not have any thing big to compete with the likes of Google or Microsoft. Not yet. The first generation entrepreneurs got lucky with the outsourcing boom and the 1991 de-re... (Read Full Article)
    

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Google   Infosys   Intel

14. Subsidized Microsoft Software for Startups

    Startups India (Nov 5 2008) Explore Article

    ...Exchange Server for e-mails and unified communication development. Additionally they can also avail Microsoft Office suite along with Share Point and Biz Talk Servers.Enrollmenti s FREE and once you are 3 year... (Read Full Article)
    

    Comment on Article Mentions:   John Doerr   Microsoft

15. Microsoft DreamSpark Free Softwares With College ID

    Information Madness (Nov 5 2008) Social Networking Explore Article

    ...tner locations near your city....Oops! Click the link to read moreSee also:Free Top Alternatives to Microsoft OfficeSocial Networking Site For Microsoft Office Lovers - ArtOfOffice.comFree Alternatives to Microsoft Office Suite * Microsoft DreamSpark Free Softwares With College ID * Free Calls To India, USA, UK, Pakistan - Get it While i... (Read Full Article)
    

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Google   Microsoft

16. LG India To Preload Social Net App On Handsets; LG And Microsoft Reaffirm Commitment

    contentSutra.com (Nov 3 2008) Social Networking Explore Article

    ... user-generated and professionally-created content (release). In a separate announcement, LG and Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) reaffirmed their commitment to one another. According to an LG release, the two have a... (Read Full Article)
    

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Yahoo   LG India   Simon & Schuster

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