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Microsoft corporation
Microsoft Corporation is a multinational technology company founded in 1975 by Bill Gates and Paul Allen. It develops software, services, and consumer electronics. Microsoft's major products include the Windows operating system, the Microsoft Office suite of productivity software including Word and Excel, and the Internet Explorer web browser. The company has over 110 subsidiaries, 190,000 employees worldwide, and $110 billion in annual revenue, making it one of the largest software companies in the world.
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Introduction to Microsoft Inc., founded in 1975 by Bill Gates & Paul Allen, leading in software development.
Key historical developments from 1975 to 2013 including Windows releases and company milestones.
Microsoft's worldwide presence with 110 subsidiaries, 90,000 employees, and $580 billion in partner revenue.
Outlines Microsoft segments including technology groups and lists major products like Windows and Xbox.
Details about Microsoft Office products including Word, Excel, and Office 365 as a subscription service.
Information on Visual Studio as a development tool and Microsoft Azure as a cloud computing platform.
Overview of server software offerings including Windows Server and SQL Server designed for private clouds.
A timeline of Windows OS versions from 3.1 to Windows 8, highlighting significant releases.
Interesting facts about Microsoft, including its logo history, stock splits, and art collections.
Acknowledgment of presenter Kalhan Randula Liyanage.
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Microsoft corporation
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- 2. OUTLINE Introduction Visionand Mission History Worldwide company strength About Microsoft segments and Products Fun facts about Microsoft
- 3. INTRODUCTION Microsoft Corporationis an American multinational software corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington. It develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services related to computing. The world’s largest software maker measured by revenues. It is also one of the world’s most valuable company. The company was founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen on April 4, 1975.
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- 5. HISTORY 1975- • Microsoft isfounded ;they sell BASIC, the first PC computer language program to MITS Computer, Microsoft's first customer. 1981- • Microsoft, Inc. is incorporated; IBM uses Microsoft's 16-bit operating system for its first personal computer. 1983- • Microsoft introduces the Microsoft Mouse andWord for MS-DOS 1.00. . 1985- • Microsoft and IBM forge a joint development agreement and launch Windows 1.0 1989- • Microsoft co-develop SQL server 1.0.
- 6. CONT.… 1992- • IntroducingWindows 3.1 1994- •Windows NT 1995- • Windows 95 2000- • First Beta of .NET Framework released 2001- • Windows XP released
- 7. CONT.… 2003- • Windows Serverlaunched. 2007- • WindowsVista was released with Microsoft Office 2007. 2008- • Bill Gates leaves Microsoft to persue charity work. 2009- • Windows 7 released 2012- • Windows 8 launches 2013- • Windows 8.1 with Office 2013 releases
- 8. WORLDWIDE COMPANY STRENGTH 110subsidiaries $580 billion partner revenue 90000 employees 191 countries 640000 partners
- 9. Advanced Technology Applications and Services Engineering Group Cloud and Enterprise Engineering Group Devices Group Dynamics Operating Systems Engineering Group Technology and Research Business Development and Evangelism Group Finance Group HR Group Legal and Corporate Affairs Group MICROSOFT SEGMENTS
- 10. PRODUCTS OWNED BYMICROSOFT Bing Windows DirectX Xbox - Game Console Microsoft Office Internet Explorer MSN Microsoft Office MicrosoftWindows Server Skype Nokia
- 11. MICROSOFT OFFICE Thesoftware product includes : Word (a word processor) Access (a personal relational database application) Excel (a spreadsheet program) Outlook (Groupware, frequently used with Exchange Server) PowerPoint (presentation software) Publisher (desktop publishing software)
- 12. OFFICE 365 Anonline office and software plus services suite named which is a subscription service for Microsoft Office products. A number of other products were added later with the release of Office 2013 including Visio Project MapPoint InfoPath OneNote.
- 13. VISUAL STUDIO Thecompany's set of programming tools and compilers. The software product is GUI-oriented and links easily with the Windows APIs. The current version isVisual Studio 2013. Visual Studio supports development for both nativeWindows platform and .NET Framework. Various free editions are also offered for Windows Runtime, Windows Phone, ASP.NET andWindows desktop development.
- 14. MICROSOFT AZURE Thecompany's cloud computing platform that hosts virtual machines, websites and more. It provides both platform as a service (PaaS) and infrastructure as a service (IaaS) services. It supports many different programming languages, tools and frameworks, including both Microsoft-specific and third-party software and systems.
- 15. MICROSOFT SERVERS Microsoftoffers a suite of server software, entitled Microsoft Servers for private clouds. Windows Server 2012 SQL Server Exchange Server Systems Management Server
- 16. WINDOWS EMBEDDED Agroup of operating systems designed to be used in embedded systems. Windows CE Windows Embedded Standard Windows Embedded Industry and more.
- 17. WINDOWS AND WINDOWSPHONE Windows 3.1 Windows 95 Windows 98 Windows 2000 Windows Me Windows XP Windows Server 2003 WindowsVista Windows 7 Windows 8, andWindows Server 2008..
- 18. FUN FACTS ABOUTMICROSOFT The first ever mention of “Microsoft” was in the letter from Bill-Gates to co-founder Paul Allen in 1975. The “blibbet” logo shown below refers to stylized “o” and was apparently once was the name of burger served in the Microsoft company cafeteria.
- 19. CONT.… The Microsoftsound: Pioneering musician Brian Eno was the musical brains behind windows 95’s start tune dubbed “The Microsoft sound” . Microsoft has spilt its stock nine times since it went public back in 1986 and the company will generally split its stock when its share prize goes too high. Microsoft is one of the largest corporate collectors of artworks over 5,000 contemporary pieces including paintings, sculpture, works on paper, photographs, ceramics, studio glass and multimedia works.
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