Microsoft

Microsoft is a multinational computer technology company in the United States, focusing on R&D, manufacturing, licensing and providing a wide range of computer software services. Headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA, the most famous and best-selling products are Microsoft Windows operating system, Microsoft Office software, and Xbox game business. Microsoft is the 95th in the Fortune Global 500 list in 2015. In 2019, Microsoft's share price broke through $1 trillion for the first time, becoming the third company whose market value exceeded $trillion.

The company was founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen in 1975. At the beginning, it mainly developed and sold BASIC interpreter for Altair8800. In the mid-1980s, it made great progress in the home computer operating system market with MS-DOS. Later, Windows made Microsoft gradually dominate the home desktop computer operating system market. At the same time, Microsoft has also begun to expand its business, enter other industries and markets, and created the MSN website. In the computer hardware market, Microsoft trademarks and Xbox game consoles, Zune and MSN TV home entertainment devices have also appeared in the market in different years. Microsoft's initial public offering in 1986, and its ever rising share price has created four billionaires and 12000 millionaires for Microsoft.

With the company's strength, Microsoft has also been increasingly criticized and blamed, and has never stopped for decades. Rejection of transactions and bundling sales lead to monopoly and unfair competition lawsuits. Both the US Department of Justice and the European Commission have made adverse rulings against Microsoft under the antitrust law.

As of 2015, although Microsoft has lost most of its mobile operating system share under the competition of Android and iOS, it still has a dominant position in the IBM PC compatible operating system market and office software package market. The company also produces various other consumer and enterprise software for desktops, laptops, labels, gadgets and servers, including Internet search (and Bing), digital service market (through MSN), HoloLens, cloud computing (Azure) and software development (Visual Studio).

Steffe Ballmer replaced Gates as CEO in 2000, and later conceived the strategy of "equipment and services". With the acquisition of Danger in 2008, Microsoft entered the personal computer production market for the first time in June 2012. With the launch of Microsoft Surface series tablet computers and the subsequent acquisition of Nokia devices, Microsoft formed its mobile and service department. Since Satyanadra took over as CEO in 2014, the company has diversified its business. In addition to the original Windows, Office and game console businesses, it has also developed Surface series and cloud services, and is more actively involved in open source. For example, on August 18, 2016, it announced open source PowerShell, In addition to the Windows business, Office business and Xbox business, it added support for Linux platform, developed WSL, open source Windows Terminal, and acquired GitHub NET framework is open source and cross platform, open source VS Code, strengthen the development of Microsoft Azure platform, and Office products support multiple platforms.

In 2018, Microsoft overtook Apple and became the most valuable listed company in the world. In April 2019, Microsoft reached a market value of $1 trillion, becoming the fifth American listed company with a market value of more than $1 trillion, second only to Apple, Amazon, Google and Facebook under Alphabet.

"Ecosystem"

Microsoft is trying to create an "ecosystem" around its products to add value to its products and brands, as well as Apple, Google, Xiaomi Technology, Samsung and other peers.

software product

Microsoft's software products include many types:

• Microsoft Windows - a graphical operating system called "Windows"; There are many versions. The latest version of Personal Edition and Enterprise Edition is Windows 10. The latest version of the server is Windows Server2019. Microsoft Windows is preinstalled on almost all IBM compatible personal computers.
• MS-DOS, an early product of Microsoft, is a simple operating system with a command line interface. Early versions of Microsoft Windows had to run under MS-DOS, but Windows NT and later products could run without MS-DOS. However, Microsoft continued to launch transition products of Windows 95, Windows 98, and Windows Me running under MS-DOS at the same time because the software and hardware of users could not work properly under Windows NT.
• Microsoft Office - It is the office suite software of Microsoft Corporation, and may include Microsoft Word (word processing), Microsoft Excel (spreadsheet), Microsoft Access (database management system), Microsoft PowerPoint (presentation production), Microsoft Outlook (personal mail and schedule management), Microsoft OneNote (electronic note) Microsoft SharePoint Designer (WYSIWYG web page editing software), Microsoft Project (project management), Microsoft Publisher (electronic typesetting) and other software. Microsoft also makes Macintosh versions for Apple computers.
• Microsoft SQL Server - is a relational database solution launched by Microsoft Corporation.
• Internet Information Services - The web server software launched by Microsoft is similar to Apache, which is widely used on the Internet, and can interpret ASP dynamic web pages.
• Internet Explorer - Microsoft's web browser. It used to be the most widely used browser in the world. Since Windows 95, it has been pre installed in various versions of Microsoft Windows. It can also be used on Macintosh computers. Microsoft invested $400 million to pre install the browser on Apple computers. The main search engine is Bing.
• Windows Media Player - It is an application for playing music and videos.
• Windows Azure - is the brand of Microsoft for cloud services. The advantage is that enterprises can create their own system services without having physical servers.
• Microsoft Edge - The latest version of Microsoft's browser, which is the default browser of Windows10 operating system
• Microsoft also produces a series of reference products, such as encyclopedias and atlases, using the name Encarta.
• Microsoft also develops an integrated development environment for application system development, named Microsoft Visual Studio. It has been released for NET environment.
• Open source editor Visual Studio Code
• Xbox business
• PowerShell
• Windows Terminal

• . Net open source platform

Game software

• Halo series:
  • The first generation: Halo: Battle Evolution
  • The second generation: Halo 2
  • The third generation: Halo 3
  • The fourth generation: Halo 4
  • The fifth generation: Halo 5: Guardian page archive backup, stored in the Internet Archive
  • External biography: Halo: Star Ring Battle
  • External biography: Halo 3: ODST
  • External biography: Halo: Battle of Ruiqu
  • Reprint: Halo: Reprint of the Last War
  • Collection: Halo: Collection of Scholars and Officers
  • Reprint: Halo: Star Ring Battle Decision
  • External biography: Halo: Spartan Raid
  • External biography: Halo: Spartan Attack
  • External biography: Halo: Halo War 2
• The Age of Empires series:
  • The first generation: The Age of the Empire, The Age of the Empire: The Revival of Rome
  • The second generation: Empire Age II: Emperor Century, Empire Age II: Conqueror
  • The third generation: Empire III, Empire III: Chieftain, Empire III: Asian Dynasty
  • The fourth generation: Empire Age IV
  • External biography: Online in the Age of Empire
  • Reprint: Age of Empire II: Lost Empire, Age of Empire II: Kingdom of Africa, Age of Empire II: Decisive Edition
  • Derived from: Myth Century
• The Rise of the Kingdom series:
  • The Rise of Nations
  • The Rise of the State: Archive and backup the page of the regime defense war, and store it in the Internet Archive
  • The Rise of the State: Legend Representation
• War Machine Series:
  • The first generation: War Machine
  • Second generation: War Machine 2
  • The third generation: War Machine 3
  • The fourth generation: War Machine 4
  • External biography: War Machine: Trial
• Forza Motorsport Series/Extreme Racing Series:
  • The first generation: Archive and backup of extreme racing pages, stored in the Internet Archive
  • Second generation: Extreme Racing 2 Page Archive Backup, Stored in Internet Archives
  • The third generation: Extreme Racing 3 Page Archive Backup, Stored in Internet Archives
  • The fourth generation: Extreme Racing 4-page Archive Backup, Stored in Internet Archives
  • The fifth generation: Extreme Racing 5 page archive backup, stored in the Internet Archive
  • The sixth generation: Extreme Racing 6-page Archive Backup, Stored in Internet Archives
  • The seventh generation: Extreme Racing 7
  • Derived from the first generation: Extreme Racing Horizon
  • Derived from the second generation: Extreme Racing Horizon 2
  • Derived from the third generation: Extreme Racing Horizon 3
• Kinect Adventures
• Microsoft Flight Simulator
• Microsoft Train Simulator
• Crazy City Racing series
• "Magic Warrior Page Archive Backup, Stored in Internet Archives"
• Minecraft
• Scrolls Page Archive Backup, Stored in Internet Archives

• Cobalt Page Archive Backup, Stored in Internet Archives

Hardware products

Although Microsoft is generally a software company, it also produces some computer hardware products, which are usually used to support its special software commodity strategy:

• An early example was the Microsoft mouse, which was used to encourage more users to use the graphical user interface of the Microsoft operating system. Because it is rare to use GUI without mouse, the popularity of mouse will help more users to use Windows. Microsoft has established the IntelliMouse (mouse with middle button and scroll wheel) mouse standard, and the new scroll wheel facilitates users to turn pages up and down when browsing the web page.
• Microsoft also sells keyboard, network lens, joystick and other hardware products.
• The company also purchased Internet equipment company WebTV to support its MSN Internet service.
• The Xbox game console launched by the company in 2001 marks the company's entry into the game terminal market worth tens of billions of dollars, which has been dominated by Sony and Nintendo before.
• In 2005, Microsoft launched Xbox 360, the successor of Xbox. Although the PlayStation 3 game console of Sony, its main competitor, was delayed to release in November 2006 for several times, the initial promotion of Xbox 360 was not very smooth due to various factors such as stock shortage and Japanese consumption inertia, but it still sold 10 million units a year later before the launch of PlayStation 3. [80] The Xbox360 has also caused dissatisfaction among the players due to its design defects, and Microsoft finally admitted the fact that the Xbox360 has three reds under pressure and implemented a three-year free replacement service.
• On November 14, 2006, Microsoft launched the Zune portable media player, which was launched in the United States. [80]
• In 2008, Microsoft will provide all Formula One racing teams with a unified specification of the trip computer system. [80]
• In 2010, Microsoft launched Kinect body sensor pickup, which was initially used as a peripheral equipment of the Xbox 360 game console.
• In June 2012, Microsoft released the Surface tablet computer, breaking the 37 year old practice of not producing computer hosts.
• On May 21, 2013, Microsoft released Xbox One [81] [82] at a press conference. It was officially launched on November 22, 2013.
• On August 2, 2016, Microsoft announced on its official website that the developer version of Microsoft HoloLens has been sold in the United States and Canada.
• On August 2, 2016, the 2TB version of Xbox One S went on sale. [83] On the 23rd of the same month, the 1TB and 500GB Xbox One S went on sale. [84]

• On November 7, 2017, Xbox One X was officially launched at a price of $499. [85]

Network products

• In the mid-1990s, Microsoft began to expand its product line to the computer network field. Microsoft launched its online service MSN on August 24, 1995. MSN is the direct competitor of AOL and the main brand of other network products of Microsoft.
• In 1996, Microsoft and NBC, an American broadcasting giant, jointly founded MSNBC, a comprehensive 24-hour news channel and online news service provider.
• At the end of 1997, Microsoft acquired Hotmail, the most popular webmail service provider. Hotmail was renamed MSN Hotmail and became Microsoft Account, a platform for comprehensive login service system. Now it is renamed Outlook.com.
• Windows Live Messenger is an instant messaging program launched by Microsoft in 1999. It is the main competitor of AOL Instant Messager, ICQ and QQ. It stopped service on October 31, 2013.
• On May 10, 2011, it announced the acquisition of Skype with US $8.5 billion.

Who is the current CEO of Microsoft

Satya Nadella was born in Nizams, Hyderabad, in 1967, and obtained a bachelor's degree in electronics and communications engineering from Mangalore University in India. Later, he went to the United States to study, and studied for a master's degree in computer science at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, and later studied for an MBA at the University of Chicago.

What is the market value of Microsoft stock

By the end of July 16, 2020, the stock price of Microsoft was 203.92 dollars, with a market value of 1.55 trillion

Microsoft Surface Customer Service Phone

Technical support hotline 400-820-3800

Microsoft official store hotline 400-882-2059

Microsoft Mall Enterprise Hotline 400-805-6783

What is Bill Gates Foundation

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation was founded in 2000, with its headquarters in Seattle, USA. Under the guidance of Bill Gates, his wife Melinda Gates and Warren Buffett, it is jointly managed by CEO Mark Susman and co chairman William Gates. We are committed to applying human innovative talents to reduce inequalities in health and development.