query: in which country was microsoft founded?

title: Microsoft TechNet

text: August 31, 2013. Subscribers could activate purchased subscriptions through September 30, 2013. Microsoft announced an extended 90-days plan to help existing subscribers of the time get used to new situation. Founded in 2005, "TechNet Magazine" is a discontinued monthly print magazine that provides IT professionals working with Microsoft technologies information about planning, operating, and optimizing their systems. "TechNet Magazine" had a print circulation of 100,000 readers in the US. Microsoft TechNet Microsoft TechNet is a Microsoft web portal and web service for IT professionals. It includes a library containing documentation and technical resources for Microsoft products, a learning center which

title: Microsoft

text: 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

title: Microsoft Development Center Norway

text: Microsoft Development Center Norway Microsoft Development Center Norway (before 2010 known as Fast Search & Transfer ASA (FAST)) is a Norwegian company based in Oslo. FAST focuses on data search technologies. It had offices located in Germany, Italy, Sri Lanka, France, Japan, the United Kingdom, the United States, Brazil, Mexico and other countries around the world. The company was founded in 1997. On April 24, 2008, Microsoft acquired FAST. FAST is now known as Microsoft Development Center Norway. FAST offered an enterprise search product, FAST ESP. ESP is a service-oriented architecture development platform which is geared towards production searchable indexes.

title: History of Microsoft

text: process fall under the Azure Machine Learning and the Azure IoT Hub platforms. On 10 October, 2018, Microsoft joined the Open Invention Network community despite holding more than 60,000 patents. On 16 October, 2018, Paul Allen the co-founder of Microsoft passed away after complications of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. In November 2018, Microsoft agreed to supply 100,000 HoloLens headsets to the United States military in order to "increase lethality by enhancing the ability to detect, decide and engage before the enemy." History of Microsoft Microsoft is a multinational computer technology corporation. Microsoft was founded on April 4, 1975, by Bill Gates and

title: Microsoft Combat Flight Simulator

text: June 2000. "Combat Flight Simulator" was a finalist for "Computer Gaming World"s 1998 "Best Simulation" award, which ultimately went to "European Air War". Microsoft Combat Flight Simulator Microsoft Combat Flight Simulator: WWII Europe Series is the first version of combat flight simulators from Microsoft, released November 1, 1998. CFS1 is set in the European Theater of World War II. "Combat Flight Simulator" was a commercial success. It was the United States' 19th-best-selling computer game during the first half of 1999, and totaled 260,708 sales and $10.8 million revenues in the country by that October. The game's defeat of its direct

title: Microsoft

text: eye on Microsoft for possible collusion, marking the beginning of over a decade of legal clashes with the U.S. government. Meanwhile, the company was at work on a 32-bit OS, Microsoft Windows NT, which was heavily based on their copy of the OS/2 code. It shipped on July 21, 1993, with a new modular kernel and the Win32 application programming interface (API), making porting from 16-bit (MS-DOS-based) Windows easier. Once Microsoft informed IBM of NT, the OS/2 partnership deteriorated. In 1990, Microsoft introduced its office suite, Microsoft Office. The suite bundled separate productivity applications, such as Microsoft Word and Microsoft

title: Microsoft

text: its 50% stake in MSNBC.com, which it had run as a joint venture with NBC since 1996. On October 1, Microsoft announced its intention to launch a news operation, part of a new-look MSN, with Windows 8 later in the month. On October 26, 2012, Microsoft launched Windows 8 and the Microsoft Surface. Three days later, Windows Phone 8 was launched. To cope with the potential for an increase in demand for products and services, Microsoft opened a number of "holiday stores" across the U.S. to complement the increasing number of "bricks-and-mortar" Microsoft Stores that opened in 2012. On March

title: I Was Country When Country Wasn't Cool

text: I Was Country When Country Wasn't Cool "I Was Country When Country Wasn't Cool" is a song written by Kye Fleming and Dennis Morgan, recorded by American country music artist Barbara Mandrell. It was released in April 1981 as lead single from the album "Barbara Mandrell Live". It featured an uncredited guest appearance by country artist George Jones. The song reached number one on the U.S. "Billboard" Hot Country Singles chart in July 1981 and peaked at #14 on the Canadian "RPM" Country Tracks chart. The song was nominated for 1981 Single of the Year by both the CMA and

title: Microsoft

text: both personal computers and tablet computers, in Taipei in June 2011. A developer preview was released on September 13, which was subsequently replaced by a consumer preview on February 29, 2012, and released to the public in May. The Surface was unveiled on June 18, becoming the first computer in the company's history to have its hardware made by Microsoft. On June 25, Microsoft paid US$1.2 billion to buy the social network Yammer. On July 31, they launched the Outlook.com webmail service to compete with Gmail. On September 4, 2012, Microsoft released Windows Server 2012. In July 2012, Microsoft sold

title: Microsoft Combat Flight Simulator

text: Microsoft Combat Flight Simulator Microsoft Combat Flight Simulator: WWII Europe Series is the first version of combat flight simulators from Microsoft, released November 1, 1998. CFS1 is set in the European Theater of World War II. "Combat Flight Simulator" was a commercial success. It was the United States' 19th-best-selling computer game during the first half of 1999, and totaled 260,708 sales and $10.8 million revenues in the country by that October. The game's defeat of its direct competitor, "Jane's WWII Fighters", contributed to the end of Electronic Arts' Jane's Combat Simulations brand. The game's global sales surpassed 450,000 copies by

title: Microsoft

text: of their emails and shopping results which favor Google products. Tech publications like TechCrunch have been highly critical of the ad campaign, while Google employees have embraced it. In July 2014, Microsoft announced plans to lay off 18,000 employees. Microsoft employed 127,104 people as of June 5, 2014, making this about a 14 percent reduction of its workforce as the biggest Microsoft lay off ever. This included 12,500 professional and factory personnel. Previously, Microsoft has laid off 5,800 jobs in 2009 in line with US financial crisis. In September 2014, Microsoft laid off 2,100 people, including 747 people in the

title: Microsoft Mobile

text: which closed with the formation of a Finnish subsidiary, Microsoft Mobile. On smartphones, the Nokia name was phased out in favour of Microsoft branding on future Lumia products. While the Lumia range continued to be successful, especially with low- and mid-range devices targeting emerging markets, sales of both Microsoft-manufactured smartphones and feature phones began to see major declines, due primarily to the rapidly-deflating market share of Windows Phone. In 2015, Microsoft took a US$7.8 billion write-down on the Nokia purchase, and announced layoffs of 7,800 employees, primarily within Microsoft's phone business. In May 2016, Microsoft gutted its mobile business, selling

title: Microsoft Band 2

text: the Band with Windows 10 Mobile. There have been several reports that the plastic elastomer band material will fail after minimal use. Users describe cracks developing in the band, which required device replacement by Microsoft. Microsoft will not make the strap slightly thicker, and has decided to discontinue the line. Microsoft Band 2 Microsoft Band 2 was the second-generation smart band with smartwatch features developed by Microsoft. Announced on October 6, 2015, it succeeded the original Microsoft Band and was initially available in the United States, United Kingdom and Canada. It was later also available in Australia through the Sydney

title: Microsoft

text: 2008. In 2002, the company started using the logo in the United States and eventually started a television campaign with the slogan, changed from the previous tagline of ""Where do you want to go today?"" During the private MGX (Microsoft Global Exchange) conference in 2010, Microsoft unveiled the company's next tagline, ""Be What's Next."" They also had a slogan/tagline "Making it all make sense." On August 23, 2012, Microsoft unveiled a new corporate logo at the opening of its 23rd Microsoft store in Boston, indicating the company's shift of focus from the classic style to the tile-centric modern interface, which

title: Microsoft

text: approximately $950 million, of which approximately $200 million will relate to severance payments. Microsoft provides information about reported bugs in their software to intelligence agencies of the United States government, prior to the public release of the fix. A Microsoft spokesperson has stated that the corporation runs several programs that facilitate the sharing of such information with the U.S. government. Following media reports about PRISM, NSA's massive electronic surveillance program, in May 2013, several technology companies were identified as participants, including Microsoft. According to leaks of said program, Microsoft joined the PRISM program in 2007. However, in June 2013, an

title: History of Microsoft

text: Home Edition N—that did not include its Windows Media Player. Microsoft was also ordered to produce separate packages of Windows after South Korea also landed a settlement against the company in 2005. It had to pay out US$32 million and produce more than one version of Windows for the country in the same vein as the European Union-one with Windows Media Player and Windows Messenger and one without the two programs. In guise of competing with other Internet Companies such as the search service Google, in 2005 Microsoft announced a new version of its MSN search service. Later, in 2006,

title: History of Microsoft

text: 13, and was replaced by a consumer preview on February 29, 2012. On May 31, 2012, the preview version was released. On June 18, 2012, Microsoft unveiled the Surface, the first computer in the company's history to have its hardware made by Microsoft. On June 25, Microsoft paid US$1.2 billion to buy the social network Yammer. On July 31, 2012, Microsoft launched the Outlook.com webmail service to compete with Gmail. On September 4, 2012, Microsoft released Windows Server 2012. In July 2012, Microsoft sold its 50% stake in MSNBC.com, which it had run as a joint venture with NBC since

title: Microsoft adCenter Labs

text: Microsoft adCenter Labs Microsoft adCenter Labs (a.k.a. adlabs), is an applied research group at Microsoft that supports Microsoft adCenter. Microsoft adCenter (formerly MSN adCenter), is the division of the Microsoft Network (MSN) responsible for MSN's advertising services. Founded in January 2006, Microsoft adCenter Labs’ primary research facility is located in Redmond, Washington. However, a number of researchers and staff are located in China, Israel, UK, and New York City. It was co-founded by then general manager of adcenter Tarek Najm with Harry Shum. Microsoft adCenter lab works across a broad range of technology areas, including keyword and content technologies, audience

title: Microsoft Dynamics NAV

text: fellow Danish firm Damgaard A/S (founded 1983) to form NavisionDamgard A/S. In 2001 the company changed its name to "Navision A/S". On July 11, 2002 Microsoft bought Navision A/S to go with its previous acquisition of Great Plains. Navision became new division in Microsoft, named Microsoft Business Solutions, which also handled Microsoft CRM. In 2003 Microsoft announced plans to develop an entirely new ERP system (Project Green). But it later decided to continue development of all ERP systems (Dynamics AX, Dynamics NAV, Dynamics GP and Dynamics SL). Microsoft launched all four ERP systems with the same new role-based user-interface, SQL-based

title: Microsoft Dynamics NAV

text: Microsoft Dynamics NAV Microsoft Dynamics NAV is an enterprise resource planning (ERP) app from Microsoft. The product is part of the Microsoft Dynamics family, and intended to assist with finance, manufacturing, customer relationship management, supply chains, analytics and electronic commerce for small and medium-sized companies and local subsidiaries of large international groups. For modifications of the system, the proprietary programming language C/AL is used. Microsoft Dynamics NAV originates from Navision, a suite of accounting applications which Microsoft acquired in 2002. Navision originated at PC&C A/S (Personal Computing and Consulting), a company founded in Denmark in 1984. PC&C released its first

title: Microsoft Commerce Server

text: Microsoft Commerce Server Microsoft Commerce Server is a Microsoft product for building e-commerce systems using Microsoft .NET technology. In 1996, Microsoft purchased the core software that formed the basis for the Commerce Server product line from eShop. eShop was co-founded by Pierre Omidyar, one of the founders of eBay. In 1997, the software was re-branded to Microsoft Merchant Server, then Microsoft Site Server, eventually being renamed to Microsoft Commerce Server in 2000. Initially released in 2000, Commerce Server replaced Microsoft Site Server, expanding on the functionality and establishing a focus on e-commerce functionality (rather than concerning itself with document management

title: Microsoft Commerce Server

text: product division into a subsidiary known as CommerceServer.net. In November 2013, Sitecore acquired CommerceServer.net. In August 2014, Sitecore released Sitecore Commerce Server 11. Microsoft Commerce Server Microsoft Commerce Server is a Microsoft product for building e-commerce systems using Microsoft .NET technology. In 1996, Microsoft purchased the core software that formed the basis for the Commerce Server product line from eShop. eShop was co-founded by Pierre Omidyar, one of the founders of eBay. In 1997, the software was re-branded to Microsoft Merchant Server, then Microsoft Site Server, eventually being renamed to Microsoft Commerce Server in 2000. Initially released in 2000, Commerce

title: History of Microsoft

text: History of Microsoft Microsoft is a multinational computer technology corporation. Microsoft was founded on April 4, 1975, by Bill Gates and Paul Allen in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Its current best-selling products are the Microsoft Windows operating system, Microsoft Office suite of productivity software, Xbox, a line of entertainment of games, music and video, and Bing, a line of search engines. In 1980, Microsoft formed a partnership with IBM to bundle Microsoft's operating system with IBM computers; with that deal, IBM paid Microsoft a royalty for every sale. In 1985, IBM requested Microsoft to develop a new operating system for their

title: Microsoft Research Asia

text: Microsoft Research Asia Microsoft Research Asia, Microsoft’s fundamental research arm in the Asia Pacific region, was founded in Beijing China on November 5, 1998. The lab conducts basic research in natural user interfaces, next-generation multimedia, data-intensive computing, search and online advertising, and computer science fundamentals. It employs around 250 researchers and engineers, has used more than 2,500 interns, has awarded over 230 Microsoft fellowships, has published over 1,500 papers for top international journals and conferences, and has achieved many technological breakthroughs. It is one of the thirteen Microsoft Research labs. Microsoft Research Asia operates under a mission of advancing the

title: Microsoft Puzzle Hunt

text: from traditional puzzles like crosswords, word searches, cryptograms, jigsaw puzzles, word play and logic problems to wandering around campus to find landmarks or puzzles that have to be solved on location. Microsoft Puzzlehunt was founded by Bruce Leban, along with Roy Leban and Gordon Dow. The Microsoft Puzzlehunt takes place over a weekend at the Microsoft campus in Redmond, Washington, usually lasting approximately 31 hours from beginning to end. In general, teams are no larger than 12, at least 4 must be current Microsoft employees, and at least 6 must be current or former employees. Microsoft has a rich tradition

title: Microsoft Dangerous Creatures

text: Microsoft Dangerous Creatures Microsoft Dangerous Creatures is a discontinued educational programme by Microsoft Home. It was designed for Windows 3.1 and first published in August 1994. It was included in the "Microsoft Home bundle pack" along with 'Encarta', 'Works Multimedia', Money and 'Arcade & Best of Windows Entertainment Pack'. "Dangerous Creatures" allowed the user to investigate animals according to several categories: Atlas (animals by country), Weapons (animals that had teeth, venom, or claws), Guides (related animals), Habitats (animals from a given environment), and Index (an alphabetical list of all animals covered). Animal articles had pictures, descriptions, and video clips. In

title: Microsoft Agent

text: language. Microsoft announced in April 2009 that all Microsoft Agent development and support will be discontinued with the release of Windows 7. Microsoft is no longer offering licenses or distributing the SDK. However, due to customer feedback, Microsoft has provided an installation package of the Microsoft Agent core components for use on Windows 7. The download supports SAPI 5.3 compatible speech engines, and also contains the character “Merlin”, which shipped with Windows Vista. Microsoft Agent Microsoft Agent was a technology developed by Microsoft which employed animated characters, text-to-speech engines, and speech recognition software to enhance interaction with computer users. Thus

title: Microsoft Software Licensing and Protection Services

text: Microsoft Software Licensing and Protection Services Microsoft Software Licensing and Protection Services, also known as Microsoft SLPS, is a software licensing suite that provides developers with the ability to license software, create license versions, and track performance of products and profitability. SLPS is intended for developers and independent software vendors (ISV) streamline operations with .NET protection technology and a licensing server. Microsoft SLPS, formerly called SecureLM, was acquired by Microsoft in January 2007 from the company Secured Dimensions. Secured Dimensions was founded in 2005 by Avi Shillo in Israel. It was acquired by Microsoft soon after the CEO of Microsoft

title: History of Microsoft

text: to bundle it for free with the operating system. Internet Explorer was first included in the Windows 95 Plus! Pack that was released in August 1995. In September, the Chinese government chose Windows to be the operating system of choice in that country, and entered into an agreement with the company to standardize a Chinese version of the operating system. Microsoft also released the Microsoft Sidewinder 3D Pro joystick in an attempt to further expand its profile in the computer hardware market. On May 26, 1995, Bill Gates sent the "Internet Tidal Wave" memorandum to Microsoft executives. The memo described

title: Microsoft FrontPage

text: Microsoft FrontPage Microsoft FrontPage (full name Microsoft Office FrontPage) was a WYSIWYG HTML editor and website administration tool from Microsoft for the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems. It was branded as part of the Microsoft Office suite from 1997 to 2003. Microsoft FrontPage has since been replaced by Microsoft Expression Web and SharePoint Designer, which were first released in December 2006 alongside Microsoft Office 2007, but these two products were also discontinued in favor of a web-based version of SharePoint Designer, as those three HTML editors were desktop applications. FrontPage was initially created by Cambridge, Massachusetts company Vermeer Technologies,

title: Microsoft mobile services

text: in 2012. Microsoft Data Gathering enables organisations to create questionnaires that they can send over to fieldworkers via WiFi and mobile networks, the application has had several past successes such as in Brazil where the Nokia Data Gathering application was used by the Health Vigilance Foundation to track the spread of dengue fever. The software was originally developed by the Instituto Nokia de Tecnologia a Brazilian research centre founded by Nokia. Microsoft Devices Blog (originally Nokia Conversations, launched in 2008, and later Lumia Conversations) and Lumia Conversations UK (formerly NokNok.TV) are news blogs by Microsoft that deliver the latest information

title: Microsoft Mobile

text: form the new Windows and Devices group, which is headed by Terry Myerson. Other than Microsoft Lumia, this new engineering group includes Microsoft hardware divisions such as Surface, Band, HoloLens, and Xbox, as well as the Windows operating system. Microsoft Mobile's head office was Microsoft Talo in Keilaniemi, Espoo, Finland. The building was previously named Nokia House, and was part of Microsoft's acquisition of Nokia's device business, becoming Microsoft Mobile's headquarters in April 2014 and receiving its new name. It is now occupied by Tieto and is called Tieto Keilalahti Campus. Microsoft Mobile Microsoft Mobile was a subsidiary of Microsoft

title: Jesus Was a Country Boy

text: called “Jesus Was A Country Boy”, it’s very different, kind of a bold statement." The male narrator explains that Jesus was a country boy because of the lifestyle Jesus lived which he compares to that of a "country boy". Dan MacIntosh of "Country Standard Time" wrote "Walker is equally inept at theology, as this album's title track fails to help explain why bad things happen to good people, and "Jesus Was A Country Boy" isn't going to bring in any new converts." Cheryl Harvey Hill of "Country Stars Online" wrote that the song has "A very powerful old message is

title: Microsoft Mouse

text: bus card to be installed in the computer. Later versions were available with DE-9 or DB-25 serial connectors. All versions of the Microsoft Mouse could be used with IBM-compatible and other MS-DOS systems. In 1985 Microsoft introduced the "gray-eyed" Microsoft Mouse, featuring a higher resolution than competing mice. In 1987 the "dove bar" Microsoft Mouse was introduced, compatible with both serial port and PS/2. In 1991 a ballpoint Microsoft Mouse was made. The "kidney" Microsoft Mouse 2.0 was introduced in 1993, and its design served as the basis for the IntelliMouse, which debuted in 1996. Microsoft Mouse The Microsoft Mouse

title: Microsoft Mail

text: dialup modem connections. A stripped-down version of the PC-based server, Microsoft Mail for PC Networks, was included in Windows 95 and Windows NT 4.0. The last version based on this architecture was 3.5; afterwards, it was replaced by Microsoft Exchange Server, which started with version 4.0. The client software was also named Microsoft Mail, and was included in some older versions of Microsoft Office such as version 4.x. The original "Inbox" (Exchange client or Windows Messaging) of Windows 95 also had the capability to connect to an MS Mail server. Microsoft Mail Server was eventually replaced by Microsoft Exchange; Microsoft

title: Microsoft Mobile

text: Microsoft Mobile Microsoft Mobile was a subsidiary of Microsoft involved in the development and manufacturing of mobile phones. Based in Espoo, Finland, it was established in 2014 following the acquisition of Nokia's Devices and Services division by Microsoft in a deal valued at €5.4 billion, which was completed in April 2014. Nokia's then-CEO, Stephen Elop, joined Microsoft as president of its Devices division following the acquisition, and the acquisition was part of Steve Ballmer's strategy to turn Microsoft into a "devices and services" company. Under a 10-year licensing agreement, Microsoft Mobile held rights to sell feature phones running the S30+

title: Microsoft Home

text: Microsoft Home Microsoft Home was a line of software applications and personal hardware products published by Microsoft. Microsoft Home software titles first appeared in the middle of 1993. These applications were designed to bring multimedia to Microsoft Windows and Macintosh personal computers. With more than 60 products available under the Microsoft Home brand by 1994, the company's push into the consumer market took off. Microsoft also announced at that time Microsoft Plus!, an add-on enhancement package for Windows, which was continued until the Windows XP era. The range of home software catered for many different consumer interests from gaming with

title: Microsoft mobile services

text: has separately downloadable versions for iOS and Android, and was previously available for Windows Mobile and Symbian. Microsoft Office Mobile has 4 core applications which are Microsoft Word Mobile, Microsoft Excel Mobile, Microsoft PowerPoint Mobile, and Microsoft OneNote Mobile, besides the core applications Office Mobile offers separately downloadable versions of Microsoft Lync, SharePoint, the Office Lens, the Office Remote, and Microsoft Office 365 apps. In 2014, Microsoft acquired Acompli, a company that developed an email and calendar application for Android and iOS which was rebranded as Outlook Mobile. In October 2015 Microsoft announced that another acquisition, Sunrise Calendar would be

title: Microsoft Solitaire

text: games won, and allow users to save incomplete games and to choose cards with different face styles. On Windows 8 and Windows 10, along with Windows Phone, the game was issued as "Microsoft Solitaire Collection", where in addition to Klondike four other game modes were featured, Spider, FreeCell (both of which had been previously featured in versions of Windows as Microsoft Spider Solitaire and Microsoft FreeCell), Pyramid, and TriPeaks (both of which were previously part of the "Microsoft Entertainment Pack" series, the former under the name "Tut's Tomb"). Microsoft Solitaire Solitaire is a computer game included with Microsoft Windows, based

title: Microsoft Translator

text: to increase the number of languages and to improve overall language translation quality. Below is a list of community partners that Microsoft Translator has teamed with. Additionally, Microsoft has teamed with the Klingon Language Institute, which promotes the constructed language, Klingon, which is used within the fictional Star Trek universe produced by Paramount and CBS Studios. Klingon has been supported by Microsoft Translator since May 2013. Microsoft Translator Microsoft Translator is a multilingual machine translation cloud service provided by Microsoft. Microsoft Translator is integrated across multiple consumer, developer, and enterprise products; including Bing, Microsoft Office, SharePoint, Microsoft Edge, Microsoft Lync,

title: Microsoft Mobile

text: branded phone, Microsoft Lumia 535. In November 2014 The Lumia Beta Apps division launched the "Lumia Cinemagraph Beta" which migrated content from Nokia's website to Microsoft OneDrive and subsequently implemented this feature in Lumia Cinemagraph. Previously cinemagraphs used to be synchronized via the Nokia Memories site, the change was made in relation to migrating all content from Nokia's sites to Microsoft's services. In December 2014, Microsoft discontinued the Nokia Sync service, which used Nokia's account service to synchronize contacts and general phone information, in favour of other offerings such as Microsoft OneDrive, which uses Microsoft accounts as part of the

title: Microsoft Pay

text: Microsoft Pay Microsoft Pay (previously Microsoft Wallet) is a mobile payment and digital wallet service by Microsoft that lets users make payments and store loyalty cards on certain devices. Making payments is currently supported on the Microsoft Edge browser. Microsoft Pay does not require Microsoft Pay-specific contactless payment terminals, and can work with existing contactless terminals if used on mobile devices. Similar to Android Pay, Microsoft Pay utilizes Host card emulation (HCE) for making in-store payments. The service's original name was also originally used for a credit card manager feature included in Windows 98 and Internet Explorer 5, which required

title: Unicode in Microsoft Windows

text: file as being UTF-8 (i.e. do not use a BOM), and arrange the string constants to have the UTF-8 bytes. If a BOM was added, a Microsoft compiler will interpret the strings as UTF-8, convert them to UTF-16, then convert them "back" into the current locale, thus destroying the UTF-8. Without a BOM and using a single-byte locale, Microsoft compilers will leave the bytes in a quoted string unchanged. Unicode in Microsoft Windows Microsoft was one of the first companies to implement Unicode (back then UCS-2, that evolved into UTF-16) in their products, while they are still in 2018 improving

title: Microsoft FRx

text: in a joint venture with IBM. A Windows-based version of FRx was available in 1993. FRx Software was acquired by Great Plains Software, which itself was purchased by Microsoft, where it was run as a wholly owned subsidiary. FRx was integrated with numerous general ledger systems. Microsoft FRx is currently in a sustained engineering phase. Service Packs are available on the Microsoft Download Center. No new releases of Microsoft FRx are planned. Starting in 2011 FRx is now in a state of phased discontinuation. and Microsoft’s official FRx replacement is Management Reporter. Competitors of FRx are: Microsoft FRx Microsoft FRx

title: Microsoft Sort

text: came on a single 5¼" floppy diskette. The software and manual came packaged in a hinged Perspex box, which Microsoft described as "EaselBox". It was designed to double up as a book stand for the reference manual. At the time of sale, Microsoft Sort was one of 32 products available from the company including productivity software, educational software, recreational software, hardware and programming languages. Microsoft Sort Microsoft Sort is a software utility developed by the Microsoft Corporation in 1982-83. It was sold in two versions - as a standalone utility and as a version hosted in Microsoft COBOL. The 95

title: Microsoft Plus!

text: its features have been integrated into other Microsoft products such as Windows Vista. Microsoft Plus! Microsoft Plus! is a discontinued commercial operating system enhancement product by Microsoft. The last edition is the Plus! SuperPack, which includes an assortment of screensavers, themes, and games, as well as multimedia applications. The Microsoft Plus! product was first announced on January 31, 1994 under the internal codename "Frosting". The first edition was an enhancement for Windows 95, Windows 95 Plus! The enhancements that make up Microsoft Plus! were generally developed by Microsoft itself. The Plus! packs also included games and content from third-party companies;

title: Microsoft Lumia

text: It was also reported that Microsoft would release fewer first-party devices each year. As part of a larger restructuring, the Microsoft Devices & Studios engineering group was merged with the Operating Systems Engineering Group to form the larger Windows & Devices Engineering Group. In July 2015, it was announced that the head of Surface, Panos Panay, would head the new Microsoft devices unit, which would include the Microsoft Lumia as well as various other Microsoft hardware products such as the Band, HoloLens, and Xbox. In October 2015, Microsoft launched the first Lumia devices running on Windows 10 Mobile: the Lumia

title: I Was Country When Country Wasn't Cool

text: career. The single helped her 1981 live album, "Barbara Mandrell Live" certify gold by the Recording Industry Association of America and also helped her win the Country Music Association's "Entertainer of the Year" award in 1981. I Was Country When Country Wasn't Cool "I Was Country When Country Wasn't Cool" is a song written by Kye Fleming and Dennis Morgan, recorded by American country music artist Barbara Mandrell. It was released in April 1981 as lead single from the album "Barbara Mandrell Live". It featured an uncredited guest appearance by country artist George Jones. The song reached number one on

title: Unicode in Microsoft Windows

text: Unicode in Microsoft Windows Microsoft was one of the first companies to implement Unicode (back then UCS-2, that evolved into UTF-16) in their products, while they are still in 2018 improving their operating system support for UTF-8. Windows NT was the first operating system that used "wide characters" in system calls. Using the UCS-2 encoding scheme at first, it was upgraded to UTF-16 starting with Windows 2000, allowing a representation of additional planes with surrogate pairs. Current Windows versions and all back to Windows XP and prior Windows NT (3.x, 4.0) are shipped with system libraries which support string encoding

title: Microsoft Student

text: Microsoft Student Microsoft Student is a discontinued application from Microsoft designed to help students in schoolwork and homework. It included Encarta, as well as several student-exclusive tools such as additional Microsoft Office templates (called Learning Essentials) and integration with other Microsoft applications, like Microsoft Word. An example of that is data citations, Encarta dictionary and research Encarta features, which are available in a toolbar in Word. The product also included Microsoft Math, language and literature resources (book summaries), and research tools (such as access to an online version of Encarta). Student 2006 was the first version of the product and

title: Microsoft Hearts

text: Microsoft Hearts Hearts, also known as Microsoft Hearts and previously named The Microsoft Hearts Network, is a computer game included with Microsoft Windows, based on a card game with the same name. It was first introduced in Windows 3.1 in 1992, and has since been included in every version of Windows up to and including Windows 7. Hearts was first included in Windows with Windows for Workgroups 3.1, Microsoft's first "network-ready" version of Windows, released in Autumn 1992, which included a new networking technology that Microsoft called NetDDE. Microsoft used Hearts to showcase the new NetDDE technology by enabling multiple

title: Microsoft RoundTable

text: and originally developed by Ross Cutler and other researchers at Microsoft Research. Ross Cutler and Senthil Velayutham founded the RoundTable product group as part of the Microsoft Greenhouse and led by GM Jeff Finan to commercialize the technology. The product launched in 2007. It used the Windows CE operating system on the main processor and other operating systems on the supporting DSP chipsets. In 2009 the Roundtable device was licensed to Polycom and rebranded as the Polycom CX5000. The device has an identical feature set but is branded as a Polycom unit. Polycom has since launched two new products based

title: Microsoft Visio

text: interface in Visio 2010. Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access and Outlook (to some extents) had already adopted the ribbon with the release of Microsoft Office 2007. There are no Visio versions 7, 8, or 9, because after Microsoft acquired and branded Visio as a Microsoft Office product, the Visio version numbers followed the Office version numbers. Version 13 was skipped due to triskaidekaphobia. Visio does not have a Mac OS X version, which has led to the growth of several third party applications which can open and edit Visio files on Mac. On 7 May 2001, Microsoft introduced "Visio Enterprise

title: Microsoft Plus!

text: Microsoft Plus! Microsoft Plus! is a discontinued commercial operating system enhancement product by Microsoft. The last edition is the Plus! SuperPack, which includes an assortment of screensavers, themes, and games, as well as multimedia applications. The Microsoft Plus! product was first announced on January 31, 1994 under the internal codename "Frosting". The first edition was an enhancement for Windows 95, Windows 95 Plus! The enhancements that make up Microsoft Plus! were generally developed by Microsoft itself. The Plus! packs also included games and content from third-party companies; for example, in Plus! for Windows XP, the "HyperBowl" game developed by Hyper

title: Microsoft BASIC

text: Microsoft BASIC Microsoft BASIC is the foundation product of the Microsoft company. It first appeared in 1975 as Altair BASIC, which was the first BASIC by Microsoft and the first high level programming language available for the Altair 8800 microcomputer. During the home computer craze during the late-1970s and early-1980s, Microsoft BASIC was ported to and supplied with practically every computer design. Slight variations to add support for machine-specific functions led to a profusion of related designs like Commodore BASIC and Atari Microsoft BASIC. As the early home computers gave way to newer designs like the IBM PC and Apple

title: Microsoft Mathematics

text: which has no relation with the earlier Microsoft Mathematics product. Microsoft Mathematics Microsoft Mathematics (formerly "Microsoft Math") is a freely downloadable educational program, designed for Microsoft Windows, that allows users to solve math and science problems. Developed and maintained by Microsoft, it is primarily targeted at students as a learning tool. A related freeware add-in, called "Microsoft Mathematics Add-In for Word and OneNote", is also available from Microsoft and offers comparable functionality (Word 2007 or higher is required). Microsoft Math has received 2008 Award of Excellence from Tech & Learning Magazine. Microsoft Math contains features that are designed to assist

title: Microsoft TechNet

text: Microsoft TechNet Microsoft TechNet is a Microsoft web portal and web service for IT professionals. It includes a library containing documentation and technical resources for Microsoft products, a learning center which provides online training, discussion forums, an evaluation center for downloading trialware, blogs for Microsoft employees and a wiki. TechNet originally provided a software subscription service similar to Office 365 and Adobe Creative Cloud that allowed subscribers to download Microsoft software under a software as service license for private use. On July 1, 2013, it was announced that Microsoft is discontinuing the TechNet subscription service, with the purchase and renewal

title: Microsoft Minesweeper

text: Microsoft Minesweeper Microsoft Minesweeper (formerly Minesweeper) is a minesweeper computer game created by Curt Johnson, originally for OS/2, and ported to Microsoft Windows by Robert Donner, both Microsoft employees at the time. First officially released as part of the Microsoft Entertainment Pack 1 in 1990, it was included in the standard install of Windows 3.1 in 1992, replacing Reversi from Windows 3.0. Microsoft Minesweeper has been included without a major change in all subsequent Windows releases until Windows Vista, at which time an updated version by Oberon Media replaced it. In Windows 8 and later the game is not included,

title: Microsoft Mobile

text: Lumia Conversations UK. The rebranding was not entirely consistent, as the Nokia Army, launched in 2012, became the Spartan Nation. The support site for legacy phones, accessories, as well as other Nokia-branded devices and services, Nokia Discussions, was renamed the Microsoft Mobile Community. In July 2014, it was reported by evleaks that Microsoft was attempting to license the Nokia name in a co-branding scheme, which would have seen future devices branded as "Nokia by Microsoft". After the acquisition of Nokia's mobile device business by Microsoft, several Lumia devices were unveiled by Microsoft Mobile in September 2014 that still carried the

title: Microsoft Lumia

text: 2017. Even after the acquisition of Nokia's mobile device business by Microsoft, several Lumia devices were unveiled by Microsoft Mobile in September 2014 that still carried the Nokia name, including the Lumia 830 and Lumia 735. In July 2014, it had been reported by evleaks that Microsoft was attempting to license the Nokia name in a co-branding scheme, which would have possibly seen future devices branded as "Nokia by Microsoft". As a part of the change of ownership, the social network pages have also been rebranded as Microsoft Lumia rather than Microsoft Mobile; this sought to emphasize the Windows Phone

title: Microsoft account

text: Passport were eBay and Monster.com, but in 2004 those agreements were cancelled. In August 2009, Expedia sent notice out stating they no longer support Microsoft Passport / Windows Live ID. In 2012, Windows Live ID was renamed Microsoft account. Microsoft account allows users to sign into websites that support this service using a single set of credentials. Users' credentials are not checked by Microsoft account-enabled websites, but by a Microsoft account authentication server. A new user signing into a Microsoft account-enabled website is first redirected to the nearest authentication server, which asks for username and password over an SSL connection.

title: Microsoft Theater

text: with AEG Live. Microsoft had acquired Nokia's mobile device business in 2014. As part of the new naming rights deal, the L.A. Live plaza was also renamed Microsoft Square, and Microsoft provided upgrades to the venue's technology. The Microsoft Theater hosts multiple annual awards shows. Since its opening in 2007, the Microsoft Theater has become the home of multiple entertainment industry awards shows, most notably the Primetime Emmy Awards. Since 2008, the Microsoft Theater has hosted the annual Primetime Emmy Awards after that show moved here from the Shrine Auditorium. The Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards, which take place a

title: Microsoft pubCenter

text: Microsoft pubCenter Microsoft pubCenter is a publisher's ad serving application developed by Microsoft in addition to Microsoft's Bing Ads, which allows advertisers to place ads on search engines as well as select MSN web sites or applications. Microsoft pubCenter is available for Windows Application, Windows Phone Apps, and web publishers. Originally, PubCenter was closed to new publishers but has since been opened up again. Publishers or owners can register in this program using Microsoft account to earn revenue while enabling their application's audience with valuable ads experience on their websites and Windows Phone applications. These advertisements are administered by Microsoft

title: Microsoft Agent

text: Microsoft Agent Microsoft Agent was a technology developed by Microsoft which employed animated characters, text-to-speech engines, and speech recognition software to enhance interaction with computer users. Thus it was an example of an embodied agent. It came preinstalled as part of Windows 98 through Windows Vista. It was not included with Windows 7 but can be downloaded from Microsoft. It was completely discontinued in Windows 8. Microsoft Agent functionality was exposed as an ActiveX control that can be used by web pages. The theory behind this software came from work on social interfaces by Clifford Nass and Byron Reeves at

title: Microsoft Office

text: for PC Networks 2.1 to the bundle. Microsoft Office 3.0, also called Microsoft Office 92, was released on August 30, 1992 and contained Word 2.0, Excel 4.0, PowerPoint 3.0 and Mail 3.0. It was the first version of Office also released on CD-ROM. In 1993, The Microsoft Office Professional was released, which added Microsoft Access 1.1. Microsoft Office 4.0 was released containing Word 6.0, Excel 4.0a, PowerPoint 3.0 and Mail in 1993. Word's version number jumped from 2.0 to 6.0 so that it would have the same version number as the MS-DOS and Macintosh versions (Excel and PowerPoint were already

title: Microsoft Home

text: Microsoft Arcade and Entertainment Packs to reference titles such as Microsoft Encarta, Bookshelf and Cinemania. Shortly after the release of Microsoft Windows 95, the company began to reduce the price of Microsoft Home products and by the rise of the World Wide Web by 1998, Microsoft began to phase out the line of software. Microsoft Home produced software for all different uses and environments. The products are divided into five categories: Reference & Exploration, Entertainment, Kids, Home Productivity and Sounds, Sights & Gear. The category in which the product was divided is identifiable by the package. Generally, Reference & Exploration

title: Microsoft Digital Image

text: Microsoft Digital Image Microsoft Digital Image was a digital image editing program created by Microsoft. It was a successor to Microsoft Picture It!. Microsoft Digital Image came in three different editions: "Digital Image Standard", which offered tools for editing images, "Digital Image Suite", which added "Digital Image Library" for organizing images and "Digital Image Suite Plus", which included tools from Digital Image Suite and the video editing tools of Pinnacle Studio. Digital Image had support for Adobe Photoshop plugins. Later versions also included Photo Story 3.1. The latest version of this product was Digital Image 2006. This version had native

title: Microsoft account

text: Electronic Privacy Information Center and a coalition of fourteen leading consumer groups filed complaints with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) alleging that the Microsoft Passport system violated Section 5 of the Federal Trade Commission Act (FTCA), which prohibits unfair or deceptive practices in trade. In 2003, Faisal Danka, a British Indian IT Risk and Security executive, revealed a serious flaw in Microsoft Passport, through which any account linked to Microsoft Passport or Hotmail could easily be cracked by using any common browser. Microsoft had pushed for non-Microsoft entities to create an Internet-wide unified-login system. Examples of sites that used Microsoft

title: Microsoft litigation

text: licenses and refurbished PCs, to about 12,500 underprivileged public schools. This was seen by the judge as a potential windfall for Microsoft, not only in educating schoolchildren on Microsoft solutions but also in flooding the market with Microsoft products. Among the protesters were Apple Inc. which feared further loss of its educational market share. The federal judge rejected the proposed settlement. In 2003 to 2004, the European Commission investigated the bundling of Windows Media Player into Windows, a practice which rivals complained was destroying the market for their own products. Negotiations between Microsoft and the Commission broke down in March

title: Microsoft Academic

text: Microsoft Academic Microsoft Academic is a free public web search engine for academic publications and literature, developed by Microsoft Research. Re-launched in 2016, the tool features an entirely new data structure and search engine using semantic search technologies. It currently indexes over 375 million entities, 170 million of which are academic papers. The Academic Knowledge API offers information retrieval from the underlying database using REST endpoints for advanced research purposes. The service replaces the earlier Microsoft research project, Microsoft Academic Search, which ended development in 2012. Preliminary reviews by bibliometricians suggest the new Microsoft Academic Search is a competitor to

title: Microsoft Office 2013

text: through Microsoft Office 365 program, the web application edition known as Office Web Apps and the Office RT edition made for tablets and mobile devices. Office Web Apps are available free of charge on the web although enterprises may obtain on-premises installations for a price. Microsoft Office applications may be obtained individually; this includes Microsoft Visio, Microsoft Project and Microsoft SharePoint Designer which are not included in any of the twelve editions. On February 25, 2014, Microsoft Office 2013 Service Pack 1 (SP1) was released. Development started in 2010 while Microsoft was finishing work on Office 14, released as Microsoft

title: Microsoft Office Accounting

text: Microsoft Office Accounting Express was the freeware version of Accounting, made available for download and also being distributed in certain editions of Microsoft Office 2007, including "Professional", "Small Business" and "Ultimate" editions. This free version did not support local requirements outside of UK and USA. Microsoft Office Accounting has its roots in the a 2006 release called Microsoft Small Business Accounting. A new iteration was released in 2007 with the same name. In 2008, however, the name was changed to Microsoft Office Accounting and it retained that name in 2009, which was its last iteration. Microsoft Office Accounting Microsoft Office

title: Microsoft PhotoDraw

text: approach (manifested in special graphic menus), a concept later evolving into the Ribbon interface of modern MS Office and other applications. As positioned mainly as an MS Office family companion and a business graphical solution suite, it was not useful enough for home users, who are more interested in manipulating digital pictures - which are bitmaps - than creating vector graphics. Microsoft has responded by bundling Windows Picture and Fax Viewer with Windows XP, developing Microsoft Picture It!, as well as creating Microsoft Office Picture Manager for Microsoft Office 2003 to expand on Microsoft Photo Editor. Furthermore, PhotoDraw was also

title: Microsoft Reader

text: Reader installations can be activated per account, after which, Microsoft requires the user to request further activations. "Read in Microsoft Reader" is an add-on, available from Microsoft, that can be used with Microsoft Word (versions 2000, 2002 and 2003) to create .LIT extension e-books. This software is not fully compatible with Office 2007. Notable third party apps and tools to convert and read MS .LIT format on various devices include: Microsoft Reader Microsoft Reader can refer to a Microsoft application for reading e-books, first released in August 2000, or a Microsoft application for reading PDF and XPS files, first released

title: MIX (Microsoft)

text: MIX (Microsoft) MIX was a Microsoft conference held annually for web developers and designers at which Microsoft showcased upcoming web technologies. The conference was held each spring at the Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas. Unlike many of Microsoft's technical conference, MIX has been promoted more heavily to designers by inviting popular speakers from other popular web design conferences, such as SXSW, and has sponsored a CSS design contest each year to promote the conference. Microsoft has also used this conference as an opportunity to promote new web design and development tools such as Silverlight and Microsoft Expression Studio. On January

title: Microsoft Expression Studio

text: Microsoft Expression Studio Microsoft Expression Studio is a discontinued suite of tools for designing and building Web and Windows client applications and rich digital media content. Microsoft introduced Microsoft Expression on September 16, 2005, at Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles. Microsoft Expression Encoder was introduced at NAB 2007. Microsoft Expression Studio was released to manufacturing (RTM) on April 30, 2007. The RTM news was announced at Microsoft's MIX 07 conference for web developers and designers. Microsoft Expression Studio 2 was released on May 1, 2008, which also included a graphical makeover for the suite to an inverse of

title: Microsoft

text: Microsoft in November 1980 to provide a version of the CP/M OS, which was set to be used in the upcoming IBM Personal Computer (IBM PC). For this deal, Microsoft purchased a CP/M clone called 86-DOS from Seattle Computer Products, which it branded as MS-DOS, though IBM rebranded it to PC DOS. Following the release of the IBM PC in August 1981, Microsoft retained ownership of MS-DOS. Since IBM had copyrighted the IBM PC BIOS, other companies had to reverse engineer it in order for non-IBM hardware to run as IBM PC compatibles, but no such restriction applied to the

title: Microsoft Notepad

text: Microsoft Notepad Notepad is a simple text editor for Microsoft Windows and a basic text-editing program which enables computer users to create documents. It was first released as a mouse-based MS-DOS program in 1983, and has been included in all versions of Microsoft Windows since Windows 1.0 in 1985. Microsoft introduced Multi-Tool Notepad, a mouse-based text editor written by Richard Brodie, with the $195 Microsoft Mouse in May 1983 at the Spring COMDEX computer expo in Atlanta. Also introduced at that COMDEX was Multi-Tool Word, designed by Charles Simonyi to work with the mouse. Most watching Simonyi's demonstration had never

title: Microsoft

text: 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. Childhood friends Bill Gates and Paul Allen sought to make a business utilizing their shared skills in computer programming. In 1972 they founded their first company, named Traf-O-Data, which sold a rudimentary computer to track and analyze automobile traffic data. While Gates enrolled at Harvard, Allen pursued a degree in computer science at Washington State University, though he later dropped out of school to work at Honeywell.

title: Microsoft Dynamics NAV

text: reporting and analysis, SharePoint-based portal, Pocket PC-based mobile clients and integration with Microsoft Office. In September 2005 Microsoft re-branded the product and re-released it as Microsoft Dynamics NAV. In December 2008 Microsoft released Dynamics NAV 2009, which contains both the original "classic" client, as well as a new three-tier GUI called the RoleTailored Client (RTC). In October 2013, Microsoft released Dynamics NAV 2013, which was available with the RTC only, and introduced support for 64-bit Windows operating systems as well as a redesign of storing dimension sets, interoperability with SharePoint, and a web client. In October 2014, Microsoft released Dynamics

title: Microsoft Azure

text: (or a subset of them) to applications running on top of Microsoft Azure. Microsoft Azure has been described as a "cloud layer" on top of a number of Windows Server systems, which use Windows Server 2008 and a customized version of Hyper-V, known as the Microsoft Azure Hypervisor to provide virtualization of services. Scaling and reliability are controlled by the Microsoft Azure Fabric Controller, which ensures the services and environment do not fail if one or more of the servers fails within the Microsoft data center, and which also provides the management of the user's Web application such as memory

title: Microsoft Venus

text: This ability was intended to be combined with a contract with forty Chinese governmental ministries to produce an application known as "Government Online", which would have served the stated purpose of bringing the Chinese bureaucracy closer to the masses. Microsoft reportedly intended for the Venus boxes to run on a special version of Windows CE, fine-tuned for display on television sets. Exact processor speeds were never released by Microsoft, but were believed to be comparable to that of low-end Windows computers at that time. Microsoft Venus Microsoft Venus was an aborted venture by Microsoft into the low-end personal computing market

title: I Was Country When Country Wasn't Cool

text: ACM Awards organizations. "I Was Country When Country Wasn't Cool" was a song produced by Tom Collins. Mandrell recorded the song as a "live" performance; however the track was actually recorded in the studio with an audience applause track inserted over various sections of the song to fit into the context of the forthcoming live album. The song also featured an uncredited guest appearance on part of the chorus by country vocalist, George Jones. The song was released during a period of rapid growth in the popularity of country music related to a dance-focused form of the genre called neocountry

title: Microsoft Streets & Trips

text: the Autoroute brand was retained. In 2000, Microsoft also developed Microsoft MapPoint as a business mapping program based on this technology. The technology was also used in MSN Maps which later became Bing Maps. Despite previous reports that the 2013 version did not accept data from older versions, the 2013 version converts the old files for usage and the user can save them in that format. Microsoft Streets & Trips Microsoft Streets & Trips, known in other countries as Microsoft AutoRoute, is a discontinued mapping program developed and distributed by Microsoft. Functionally, the latest version is a subset of Microsoft

title: Microsoft Sort

text: Microsoft Sort Microsoft Sort is a software utility developed by the Microsoft Corporation in 1982-83. It was sold in two versions - as a standalone utility and as a version hosted in Microsoft COBOL. The 95 page ring-bound manual describes the function of the software as follows: "Microsoft Standalone SORT is a programmable sorting and merging utility. It accepts data files and arranges the records contained in these files in the order you assign. You may specify sequence keys, which are specific data field(s) within each record, for comparison of records. Also, you may specify a selection procedure." The software

title: Microsoft Lumia

text: during which Microsoft was allowed to use Nokia.com and related sites. However, in October 2014, Microsoft officially announced that it would phase out the Nokia brand in its promotion and production of Lumia smartphones, and that future Lumia models would be branded solely with the name and logo of Microsoft. In November 2014, Microsoft announced its first self-branded phone, Microsoft Lumia 535. Rebranding the Lumia line did not affect sales, though some critics believed that it might negatively influence consumers' decisions due to Nokia's established reputation for durability compared to the relative infancy of Microsoft's brand in the consumer phone

title: Microsoft Studios

text: Booty was promoted from leader in the Minecraft games business, to Corporate Vice President of Microsoft Studios. On June 10, 2018, during the Electronic Entertainment Expo 2018, Microsoft announced the acquisitions of Ninja Theory, Playground Games, Undead Labs and Compulsion Games, as well as the opening of a new studio in Santa Monica, California entitled "The Initiative", which will be led by the former Crystal Dynamics studio head Darrell Gallagher. Later that year, in November, Microsoft Studios further announced plans to acquire Obsidian Entertainment and InXile Entertainment. Microsoft Casual Games is a division and video game developer of Microsoft Studios

title: Microsoft Courier

text: build such a device at this time" part. On June 30, 2010, "Network World" revived hopes by posting that Microsoft received a patent on June 29, which might be for the 'Courier', "patent number D618683 for a 'dual display device'." Microsoft Courier Microsoft Courier was the codename for a rumored Booklet PC from Microsoft, first reported in 2008 and cancelled in 2010. The unit would have contained dual-touchscreens that faced each other in a booklet form factor, and would have used a stylus and finger touch for input. Microsoft has announced it did work on the product, but will not

title: Microsoft Mobile

text: sales, costs exceeded sales revenue by $4 million, and Microsoft posted a loss of 12 cents per phone sold. In February 2015, Microsoft stated that most Lumia devices would be able to upgrade from Windows Phone 8.1 to Windows 10 Mobile. Joe Belfiore said that Microsoft was "working on" a limited version of 10 for low-end devices with 512 MB of RAM, citing the Nokia Lumia 520, which at the time represented 24.5% of all Windows Phone devices sold. On 28 April 2015, Microsoft opened the first Microsoft Priority Reseller Store, in the Indian city of Gurgaon, Haryana, as a

title: Microsoft pubCenter

text: app developer portal, Dev Center. All reporting, ad creation and payment of advertising is to be managed going forward through the Windows Dev Center. Microsoft pubCenter Microsoft pubCenter is a publisher's ad serving application developed by Microsoft in addition to Microsoft's Bing Ads, which allows advertisers to place ads on search engines as well as select MSN web sites or applications. Microsoft pubCenter is available for Windows Application, Windows Phone Apps, and web publishers. Originally, PubCenter was closed to new publishers but has since been opened up again. Publishers or owners can register in this program using Microsoft account to

title: Microsoft BASIC

text: an updated Microsoft MSDN website that included a full teacher curriculum, a Getting Started Guide, and several e-books. Small Basic exists to help students as young as age eight learn the foundations of computer programming and then graduate to Visual Basic via the downloadable software, Visual Studio Express, where they can continue to build on the foundation by learning Visual C#, VB.NET, and Visual C++. Microsoft BASIC Microsoft BASIC is the foundation product of the Microsoft company. It first appeared in 1975 as Altair BASIC, which was the first BASIC by Microsoft and the first high level programming language available

title: Microsoft Academic

text: Google Scholar, Web of Science, and Scopus for academic research purposes as well as citation analysis. Microsoft Academic Microsoft Academic is a free public web search engine for academic publications and literature, developed by Microsoft Research. Re-launched in 2016, the tool features an entirely new data structure and search engine using semantic search technologies. It currently indexes over 375 million entities, 170 million of which are academic papers. The Academic Knowledge API offers information retrieval from the underlying database using REST endpoints for advanced research purposes. The service replaces the earlier Microsoft research project, Microsoft Academic Search, which ended development

title: Microsoft

text: Seattle-Redmond area, where the company is headquartered. The firings came as a second wave of the layoffs that were previously announced. This brings the total number to over 15,000 out of the 18,000 expected cuts. In October 2014, Microsoft revealed that it was almost done with the elimination of 18,000 employees which was its largest ever layoff sweep. In July 2015, Microsoft announced another 7,800 job cuts in the next several months. In May 2016, Microsoft announced another 1,850 job cuts mostly in (Nokia) mobile phone division. As a result, the company will record an impairment and restructuring charge of

title: Microsoft Access

text: Office 95, Microsoft Access 7.0 (a.k.a. "Access 95") became part of the Microsoft Office Professional Suite, joining Microsoft Excel, Word, and PowerPoint and transitioning from Access Basic to VBA. Since then, Microsoft has released new versions of Microsoft Access with each release of Microsoft Office. This includes Access 97 (version 8.0), Access 2000 (version 9.0), Access 2002 (version 10.0), Access 2003 (version 11.5), Access 2007 (version 12.0), Access 2010 (version 14.0), and Access 2013 (version 15.0). Versions 3.0 and 3.5 of Microsoft Jet database engine (used by Access 7.0 and the later-released Access 97 respectively) had a critical issue which

title: Microsoft Flight Simulator

text: IBM PC to Microsoft, which marketed it as "Microsoft Flight Simulator 1.00". In 2009 Microsoft closed down the ACES Game Studio, which was the department responsible for creating and maintaining the flight simulator series. In 2014, Dovetail Games were granted the rights by Microsoft to port the Gold Edition of Microsoft's Flight Simulator X to Steam and publish the new title - Flight Simulator X: Steam Edition. "Microsoft Flight Simulator" began as a set of articles written by Bruce Artwick in 1976 about a 3D computer graphics program. When the magazine editor said that subscribers wanted to buy the program,

title: Microsoft Research Asia

text: One component of these new initiatives is an emphasis on regional programs that extend collaborations with universities in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, and Singapore. In addition to fundamental research MSR Asia also plays host to events that facilitate collaboration among academics, researchers, and industry experts. These events include: Researchers at MSR Asia have contributed to a number of technological breakthroughs: Microsoft Research Asia Microsoft Research Asia, Microsoft’s fundamental research arm in the Asia Pacific region, was founded in Beijing China on November 5, 1998. The lab conducts basic research in natural user interfaces, next-generation multimedia, data-intensive computing, search

title: Microsoft PowerPoint

text: (Windows and Macintosh 1992) introduced video output of virtual slideshows to digital projectors, which would over time completely replace physical transparencies and slides. A dozen major versions since then have added many additional features and modes of operation and have made PowerPoint available beyond Apple Macintosh and Microsoft Windows, adding versions for iOS, Android, and web access. PowerPoint was created by Robert Gaskins and Dennis Austin at a software startup in Silicon Valley named Forethought, Inc. Forethought had been founded in 1983 to create an integrated environment and applications for future personal computers that would provide a graphical user interface,

title: Microsoft Edge

text: branding was designed to maintain continuity with the branding of Internet Explorer. The Project "Spartan" branding was used in versions released after Build 2015. On June 25, Microsoft released version 19.10149 for Windows 10 Mobile which included the new brand. On June 28, version 20.10158 followed for the desktop versions, also including the updated branding. On July 15, Microsoft released version 20.10240 as the final release to Insiders. The same version was rolled out to consumers on July 29. On August 12, Microsoft started the preview program for the next version of Microsoft Edge. They released version 20.10512 to Mobile-users.

title: Microsoft Dynamics SL

text: as the database technology; Visual Basic as the software language; and Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) as the customization language. Solomon was acquired by Great Plains Software in June 2000. Great Plains was subsequently acquired by Microsoft Corporation in May 2001. The newest version is Microsoft Dynamics SL 9.0 (now Dynamics SL 2015), which extends the reach of business information with Microsoft SQL Server business intelligence technology to improve collaboration, reporting, and analysis. Microsoft Dynamics SL Microsoft Dynamics SL is one of Microsoft’s enterprise resource planning software products for project-driven small- and medium-sized enterprises. It is part of the Microsoft

title: Microsoft Office Live Meeting

text: Microsoft Office Live Meeting Microsoft Office Live Meeting is a discontinued commercial subscription-based web conferencing service operated by Microsoft. Live Meeting included software installed on client PCs and used a central server for all clients to connect to. Microsoft now produces Skype for Business which is an enterprise Unified Communications product, that can be rolled out either on-premises or in the cloud. Microsoft Office Live Meeting was a separate piece of software which was installed on a user's PC (Windows Based Meeting Console). The software was made available for free download from the Microsoft website. There was also a Java-based