Microsoft Corporation

n. internationally acclaimed and the world's largest software company started in 1975 by Bill Gates and Paul Allen with headquarters in the state of Washington (USA), manufacturer of computer technology for personal and business computing offering a vast range of software (incl. popular DOS "Windows", Desktop Publisher "Microsoft Office", etc.)

Microsoft Corporation , is an American multinational computer technology corporation with 79,000 employees in 102 countries and global annual revenue of US $51.12 billion as of 2007. It develops, manufactures, licenses and supports a wide range of software products for computing devices. Headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA, its best selling products are the Microsoft Windows operating system and the Microsoft Office suite of productivity software. These products have prominent positions in the desktop computer market, with market share estimates as high as 90% or more as of 2003 for Microsoft Office and 2006 for Microsoft Windows, in line with Bill Gates' vision "to get a workstation running our software onto every desk and eventually in every home".
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<company> The biggest supplier of operating systems and other software for IBM PC compatibles. Software products include MS-DOS, Microsoft Windows, Windows NT, Microsoft Access, LAN Manager, MS Client, SQL Server, Open Data Base Connectivity (ODBC), MS Mail, and SNA Server for Windows NT.
Microsoft was founded as "Micro-soft" in 1975 by Bill Gates (now CEO) and his high school pal Paul Allen. Their first product was a version of BASIC for the new Altair computer [which one?]. In 1980, IBM chose Microsoft to supply the operating system for the IBM PC.
On the UK television program "The Net" in May 1994, Bill Gates said he was betting his company on the information highway".
Quarterly sales $1293M, profits $362M (Aug 1994).
Home. ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/.
Interesting Info and Other Microsoft WWW Servers.
Microsoft Windows Developer Information.
Microsoft Research Group Information.
Win_News. maintained by the Personal Operating Systems Division to distribute information on Microsoft Windows, MS-DOS and Windows 95.
(1998-11-06)