Microsoft

Microsoft Corporation {{nasdaq|MSFT}} is the world's biggest software company, with over sixty thousand employees and a physical presence in over sixty countries as of 2005. It was founded in 1975 by Bill Gates and Paul Allen, and is headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA. Microsoft develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of software products for various computing devices. Its most popular products are the Microsoft Windows operating system and Microsoft Office families of products, each of which has achieved near ubiquity in the desktop computer market.

References

• Infobox
• {{Web reference_simple | title="Fast Facts about Microsoft" | URL=http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/inside_ms.mspx | date=1 October | year=2005}}
• Product divisions
• {{Web reference_simple | title="Microsoft 2005 Annual Report" | URL=http://www.microsoft.com/msft/ar05/downloads/MS_2005_AR.doc | date=1 October | year=2005}}
• History
• {{Web reference_simple | title=Windows history(at pc museam) | URL=http://members.fortunecity.com/pcmuseum/windows.htm | date=August 5 | year=2005}}
• {{Web reference_simple | title=Windows vs. Macintosh | URL=http://www.jmusheneaux.com/ | date=August 5 | year=2005}}
• {{Web reference_simple | title=Microsoft history at the History of Computing Project | URL=http://www.thocp.net/companies/microsoft/microsoft_company.htm | date=August 11 | year=2005}}
• {{Web reference_simple | title=Microsoft history at the History of Computing Project (Part 2) | URL=http://www.thocp.net/companies/microsoft/microsoft_company_part2.htm | date=August 11 | year=2005}}
• {{Web reference_simple | title="Key Events In Microsoft History" | URL=http://www.microsoft.com/visitorcenter/student.mspx | date=1 October | year=2005}} (DOC file)
• Clark, Jim with Owen Edwards. Netscape Time: The Making of the Billion Dollar Start-up That Took on Microsoft. New York, Saint martin's Press, 1999
• Cusumano, Michael A.; Selby, Richard W. Microsoft Secrets: How the World's Most Powerful Software Company Creates Technology, Shapes Markets and Manages People. New York: Free Press, 1995.
• Business culture
• Charles, John. "Indecent proposal? Doing Business With Microsoft". IEEE Software. January/February 1998. pp. 113-117.
• Edstrom, Jennifer; Eller, Marlin. Barbarians Led by Bill Gates: Microsoft from inside: How the World's Richest Corporation Wields its Power. N.Y. Holt, 1998.
• Moody, Fred. I Sing the Body Electronic: A Year With Microsoft on the Multimedia Frontier. New York: Viking, 1995.

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