Microsoft Corporation is an American Multinational company that deals in the development, licensing, manufacturing and after-sale services of Computer Operating Systems, personal computer software’s, consumer electronics and personal computers. Microsoft has a line of world-wide famous products including Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office, Xbox and Internet Explorer. According to Forbes with a market capitalization of $234.83 B, Microsoft is the second most valuable company in the world with around 94,000 employee’s world-wide, having sales of over $72.93 B as of May 2013.
Microsoft was founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen in 1975. Paul Allen a dropout from the University of Washington and Bill Gates a drop out from Harvard University were friends from childhood with a ultimate passion for computer programming. In 1975, Paul Allen viewed an article in a famous electronics magazine regarding the Altair 8800. As Allen showed the article to Gates they realized together that this was the perfect time to enter into programming and seize the opportunity. Gates after speaking with officials at Altair somehow convinced them into giving his software a chance and after a meeting with the company he succeeded in gaining the confidence of Altair. Now together Allen and Gates began to write the program immediately and after a tireless amount of effort they finally succeeded. Through the success of this venture both Allen and Gates together were sure that they could do something big as their confidence in themselves and their programming skills grew larger as finally on November 26, 1976, Microsoft was registered with the secretary of State of New Mexico.
In promptly 1986 Microsoft moved to another 40-section of land corporate yard in Red...
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...io ranges from programming that runs corporate server farms to PC programming to feature diversion machines to online advertising. The organization is a bellwether for the technological business. Microsoft's general execution held up well, a bit superior than what was anticipated. Microsoft's income in its first quarter, finished Sept. 30, rose 9 percent to about $15.1 billion from $13.8 billion a year prior. Net wage expanded 2 percent to $4.37 billion, or 48 pennies an offer, from $4.29 billion, or 45 pennies an offer, in the year-prior quarter. Microsoft conveyed solid development of 20 percent in offers of business programming in 2008, which incorporates its Office desktop gainfulness, cooperation and internet gathering projects. For sure, the business programming gathering surpassed the Windows desktop working frameworks unit in both deals and working benefits.
Microsoft has greatly impacted the State of Washington and has created an innovation powerhouse created by a man with a "impossible dream". Microsoft Corporation is one of the most well known and successful businesses in the state. Along with Boeing, and Amazon, Microsoft's value sits very high in the financial world. The founder, Bill Gates, worked very hard to rise to the challenge of competing with other technology companies. With all his hard work and effort he made his dream of success come true.
Microsoft was once a small software business ran by a young Bill Gates in a tiny
Microsoft has devoted huge amounts of effort to marketing in developing their products and services, as well as to the integration of their software products with one another in an attempt to create a seamless and consistent computing environment for the user.
Microsoft is currently the largest company in the computer industry. With a market capitalization of $291 billion, Microsoft has built an empire by dominating software sales for personal computers. Stock growth over the past 25 years has increased by more than 30,000%. However, Microsoft’s growth has substantially decreased since the market collapse of 2001(Niemond 25 April 2007).
At just twenty years old, Bill Gates cofounded Microsoft with his childhood friend Paul Allen. He is now the richest man in the world with over $85.2 billion to his name. So why did Microsoft end up being way more successful than any computer program like it? The answer is because of the free enterprise system, and competition. Gate's product was considered new and innovative at the time, which made customers want to try it out.
Microsoft, one of the largest corporations in the world today, employs over 93,000 people and is a public, multinational company that manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of software products for computers and is most widely known for its Microsoft Windows operating system. Microsoft not only markets computer hardware products such as the Microsoft mouse and the Microsoft Natural keyboard, but it also manufactures and sells home entertainment products including, the Xbox, Xbox 360, and Zune. It also holds assets in other markets including the MSNBC cable television network, the MSN Internet portal, and the Microsoft Encarta multimedia encyclopedia.
This was the same year when Bill Gates and Paul Allen co-founded Microsoft. In 1981, Bill Gates’ company was hired to develop an operating system but rather than creating a new operating system they decided to buy a preexisting operation system called QDOS (Quick and Dirty Operating System) for the amount of 50,000 dollars. After modifying the operating system they bought, they renamed the operating system to MS-DOS. After MS-DOS began selling it brought in a steady income for Gates due to the fact that the PC market was growing and there weren’t many competitors in the market for them to compete with. In 1986, when Microsoft Corporation went public, it made Gates into a millionaire overnight. The following year, Microsoft released their first ever version of
"Microsoft Corporation, is a multinational computer technology corporation with global annual revenue of US$44.28 billion and 71,553 employees in 102 countries as of July 2006. 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, each of which has achieved near-ubiquity in the desktop computer market. Microsoft possesses footholds in other markets, with assets such as the MSNBC cable television network, the MSN Internet portal, and the Microsoft Encarta multimedia encyclopedia. The company also markets both computer hardware products such as the Microsoft mouse as well as home entertainment products such as the Xbox, Xbox 360 and MSN TV" ("Microsoft").
Gates suggested that IBM “license it and charge a fee for the software” (Bill. Biography). Over the next three years, everything “exploded” and the stock price shot up. Gates and Allen incorporated Microsoft, with Gates as president and Chairman” (Bill. Biography). Microsoft was eventually “running thirty percent of the world’s software”. The IBM deal was possibly the biggest event in the history of Microsoft.
In this paper, team B will discuss the internal and external factors of the Microsoft Corporation. We will explain how these factors affect the four functions of management, planning, organizing, leading, and controlling. Also, we will explain how globalization, technology, innovation, diversity and ethics will be delegated to manage the different factors. Microsoft Corporation was established in 1975 in Albuquerque, New Mexico producing software for developing, manufacturing, licensing, and support for range of software products and service for different type of computing devices. Microsoft grew from six employees to the largest personal computer software company in the world. By 1978, Microsoft earned $500,000 in the first quarter, and by the end of the year they earned revenue of $1,000,000. In the early 1980s Microsoft, in collaboration with IBM they released MS-DOS as their first 16-bit operating system. However after the late 1980s, Microsoft started to build its reputation by creating the Microsoft windows operating system and Microsoft office product, which includes internet explorer, excel, PowerPoint, and word programs. Then in the late 1990s, Microsoft teamed with Sega to incorporated their windows software package into the game developer’s Dreamcast hardware. Also they developed their own gaming system called the Xbox and that eventually was replaced by the xbox360. Microsoft has come a long way and is no longer just a worldwide leader in computer programming but also a major part of the technology world. Microsoft windows have been the flagship and accounts for most of its revenue for Microsoft: but the company has also branched ...
What are the three or four most important drivers of Microsoft’s business model over the past 10 to 15 years that have accounted for the company’s spectacular results?
Microsoft is the leading and the largest Software Company in the world. Found by William Gates and Paul Allen in 1975 Microsoft has grown and become a multibillion company in only ten years. It all started with a great vision – “a computer on every desk and every home” - that seemed almost impossible at the time. Now Microsoft has over 44,000 employees in 60 countries, net income of $3.45 billion and revenue of 11.36 billion. Company dramatic growth and success was driven by development and marketing of operational systems and personal productivity applications software.
Through all out the generation of Xbox’s, Microsoft has been developing gaming over the years. The consoles are being remodeled each year that they release every November of the year. The founder of Microsoft was Bill Gates a smart business magnate and an investor. He launched Microsoft in 1975 and became the world’s largest PC software company. In 1998, a group of engineers that worked within the company had come up with brilliant ideas that the company should have their own video game consoles.
Microsoft is one of the leading software companies in the world and it controls substantial shares of computer operating systems. A part from operating systems, Microsoft supplies the world with other products, such as the video game console Xbox, Office Software, digital music players, server storage software, CRM applications, and Zune. In the modern world, Microsoft has embraced the idea of globalization while it has exploited current technology to increase its global competitiveness. Therefore, this paper examines how globalization and technology have influenced Microsoft Company. Moreover, the paper applies industrial organization model and resource based model to assess if Microsoft could earn high returns. Finally, the paper does an assessment of the vision and mission statements and concludes how the stakeholders influence the success of Microsoft.
In late 1968, Gates and Allen, along with two other schoolmates, formed a group called the 'Lakeside Programmers Group'. Gates and Allen had visions of solving practical problems through the use of computers. They got an opportunity in 1971 when Information Sciences Inc. recruited them to develop a program to manage their payroll system.