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[[Image:Microsoft logo.svg|right|frame]]
[[Image:Microsoft logo.svg|right|frame]]
'''Microsoft''' is an American corporation funded by [[Bill Gates]] and [[Paul Allen]] in 1975 and headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA. Its current CEO is [[Steve Ballmer]]. Microsoft focuses on developing and manufacturing [[software]], [[hardwares]] and other technology oriented products and services. In 2000 a [[liberal]] [[activist]] [[judge]] decided that Microsoft had grown into a [[monopoly]] and ordered that the company be split into two units. The threat of the breakup of the world's largest software company led directly to the fall of the [[NASDAQ]] and ended the [[dot-com boom]]. The [[recession]] triggered by Clinton's Department of Justice was later exacerbated by the [[9/11]] attacks. In 2001, a federal appeals court overturned the lower court's ruling.
'''Microsoft''' is an American corporation funded by [[Bill Gates]] and [[Paul Allen]] in 1975 and headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA. Its current CEO is [[Steve Ballmer]]. Microsoft focuses on developing and manufacturing [[software]], [[hardwares]] and other technology oriented products and services.
Microsoft was investigated for antitrust violations by the [[Department of Justice]], and in 2001 the Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit affirmed the finding of the trial court that monopolization by Microsoft had violated the [[Sherman Act]].<ref>United States v. Microsoft Corp., 346 U.S. App. D.C. 330 (D.C. Cir. 2001).</ref> The appellate court, however, overturned the lower court ruling to break Microsoft up and instead remanded the case to a new trial judge with instructions suggesting a less drastic remedy. By then President [[George Bush]] had replaced [[Bill Clinton]] and the Bush Administration dropped the demand of the Clinton Administration for a break-up of Microsoft.
==Software Products==
==Software Products==
==See Also==
==See Also==
:[http://www.microsoft.com/en/us/default.aspx Microsoft official site]
:[http://www.microsoft.com/en/us/default.aspx Microsoft official site]
== References ==
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