Microsoft | Wikipedia audio article
Channel: Subhajit Sahu
Date: 2019-03-20

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00:03:43 1 History
00:03:52 1.1 1972–1985: The founding of Microsoft
00:08:04 1.2 1985–1994: Windows and Office
00:11:19 1.3 1995–2007: Foray into the Web, Windows 95, Windows XP, and Xbox
00:16:04 1.4 2007–2011: Microsoft Azure, Windows Vista, Windows 7, and Microsoft Stores
00:20:07 1.5 2011–2014: Windows 8/8.1, Xbox One, Outlook.com, and Surface devices
00:24:22 1.6 2014–present: Windows 10, Microsoft Edge and HoloLens
00:33:37 2 Corporate affairs
00:33:47 2.1 Operations
00:34:07 2.2 Board of Directors
00:35:38 2.3 Financial
00:40:19 2.4 Marketing
00:43:02 2.5 Layoffs
00:44:57 2.6 United States government
00:48:51 3 Corporate identity
00:49:01 3.1 Corporate culture
00:52:55 3.2 Environment
00:56:03 3.3 Headquarters
00:57:24 3.4 Flagship stores
00:58:26 3.5 Logo
01:00:44 3.6 Sponsorship
01:01:02 4 See also



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Microsoft Corporation (MS) is an American multinational technology company with headquarters in Redmond, Washington. It develops, manufactures, licenses, supports and sells computer software, consumer electronics, personal computers, and related services. Its best known software products are the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems, the Microsoft Office suite, and the Internet Explorer and Edge web browsers. Its flagship hardware products are the Xbox video game consoles and the Microsoft Surface lineup of touchscreen personal computers. As of 2016, it is the world's largest software maker by revenue, and one of the world's most valuable companies. The word "Microsoft" is a portmanteau of "microcomputer" and "software". Microsoft is ranked No. 30 in the 2018 Fortune 500 rankings of the largest United States corporations by total revenue.Microsoft was founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen on April 4, 1975, to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800. It rose to dominate the personal computer operating system market with MS-DOS in the mid-1980s, followed by Microsoft Windows. The company's 1986 initial public offering (IPO), and subsequent rise in its share price, created three billionaires and an estimated 12,000 millionaires among Microsoft employees. Since the 1990s, it has increasingly diversified from the operating system market and has made a number of corporate acquisitions, their largest being the acquisition of LinkedIn for $26.2 billion in December 2016, followed by their acquisition of Skype Technologies for $8.5 billion in May 2011.As of  2015, Microsoft is market-dominant in the IBM PC-compatible operating system market and the office software suite market, although it has lost the majority of the overall operating system market to Android. The company also produces a wide range of other consumer and enterprise software for desktops and servers, including Internet search (with Bing), the digital services market (through MSN), mixed reality (HoloLens), cloud computing (Azure) and software development (Visual Studio).
Steve Ballmer replaced Gates as CEO in 2000, and later envisioned a "devices and services" strategy. This began with the acquisition of Danger Inc. in 2008, entering the personal computer production market for the first time in June 2012 with the launch of the Microsoft Surface line of tablet computers; and later forming Microsoft Mobile through the acquisition of Nokia's devices and services division. Since Satya Nadella took over as CEO in 2014, the company has scaled back on hardware and has instead focused on cloud computing, a move that helped the company's shares reach its highest value since December 1999.In 2018, Microsoft surpassed Apple as the most valuable publicly traded company in the world after being dethroned by the tech giant in 2010.