MICROSOFT Inc.

Computer Science and Technology

OUTLINE

Introduction

Vision and Mission

History

Worldwide company strength

About Microsoft segments and Products

Fun facts about Microsoft

INTRODUCTION

Microsoft Corporation is 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.

VISION AND MISSION

Vision:-”A computer on every desk, and in every home.”

Mission:-

“To help people and businesses throughout

world realize their full

potential.”

INTRODUCTION ABOUT OWNER

William Henry "Bill" Gates III (born October 28, 1955) is an American business magnate, investor, computer programmer, and investor.

Gates originally established his reputation as the co-founder of Microsoft, the world’s largest PC software company, with Paul Allen.

MOTIVATION TO START THE COMPANY

Paul Allen and Bill Gates, childhood friends with a passion in computer programming, were seeking to make a successful business utilizing their shared skills.

They developed the interpreter on a simulator.

They demonstrated the interpreter to MITS in Albuquerque, New Mexico in March 1975

They officially established Microsoft on April 4, 1975, with Gates as the CEO.

HISTORY

1975- •Microsoft is founded ;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 and Word 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.

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1992- • Introducing Windows 3.1

1994- • Windows NT

1995- • Windows 95

2000-• First Beta of .NET Framework

released

2001- • Windows XP released

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2003- • Windows Server launched.

2007-• Windows Vista 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

WORLDWIDE COMPANY STRENGTH

110 subsidiaries

$580 billion partner revenue

90000 employees

191 countries

640000 partners

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

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Marketing Group

Operations

Kevin Turner leads worldwide sales, field marketing, services, support, and stores as well as IT, licensing and commercial operations.

Strategy

Mark Penn leads Strategy, responsible for core strategic issues across Microsoft’s products, value propositions and investments, and leads the company’s competitive research and analysis.

PRODUCTS OWNED BY MICROSOFT

BingWindowsDirectXXbox - Game ConsoleMicrosoft OfficeInternet ExplorerMSNMicrosoft OfficeMicrosoft Windows ServerSkypeNokia

MICROSOFT OFFICE

The software 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)

OFFICE 365

An online 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

VISUAL STUDIO

The company's set of programming tools and compilers.

The software product is GUI-oriented and links easily with the Windows APIs.

The current version is Visual Studio 2013.

Visual Studio supports development for both native Windows platform and .NET Framework.

Various free editions are also offered for Windows Runtime, Windows Phone, ASP.NET and Windows desktop development.

MICROSOFT AZURE

The company'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.

MICROSOFT SERVERS

Microsoft offers a suite of server software, entitled Microsoft Servers for private clouds.

Windows Server 2012.

SQL Server Exchange Server.

Systems Management Server.

WINDOWS EMBEDDED

A group of operating systems designed to be used in embedded systems.

Windows CE

Windows Embedded Standard

Windows Embedded Industry and more.

WINDOWS

Windows 3.1

Windows 95

Windows 98

Windows 2000

Windows Me

Windows XP

Windows Server 2003

Windows Vista

Windows 7

Windows 8, and Windows Server 2008.

Windows 8.1

SWOT Analysis: Microsoft Corporation

STRENGTH

Flexible workforce

Multinational corporation operating through regional subsidiaries to minimize cultural differences in more than 60 countries

Software products have high name recognition

Revenues and profits rising at 30% a year

Windows 95, 98, 2000 series, and Windows NT

WEAKNESS

Microsoft leadership failed to correctly anticipate the growth or popularity of the Internet.

Not a key player in the Internet space, wireless market and few products for Internet applications.

Dependency on hardware manufacturers to pre-install Microsoft's PC operating system.

OPPORTUNITY

Cheaper global telecommunication costs open new markets as people connect to the Internet.

The demand for personal computers in American and global markets remains strong despite the growth and increasing popularity of personal handheld devices.

THREAT

Apple and Linux threaten Microsoft's 88% market share of the desktop operating market.

Hardware manufacturers are issuing their own pre-bundled programs on their own hardware.

Rapid development of mobile devices.

Software piracy.

FUN FACTS ABOUT MICROSOFT

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.

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The Microsoft sound: 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.