THE HISTORY OF MICROSOFY COROPRATION

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.

• 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.

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 :

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. ) :

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 .

World wide:-O110 subsidiariesO90,000 Employees O191 countriesO640,000 PartnersOMore than 1 Billion Users

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."

SOME WELL KNOWN PRODUCTS:

SOME WELL KNOWN PRODUCTS (Cont.):

Some famous subsidiaries:

O Skype is proprietary Voice a overO 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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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