Microsoft
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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.
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Software Products
- Windows Vista operating system
- Windows XP operating system
- DOS Microsoft's first operating system
- Windows 2000 operating system
- SQL Server
- Dynamics
- Windows Server 2003
- Windows CE
- Internet Explorer HTML viewer
- Office word processor, spreadsheet editor, slide-show creator, ect.
- Expression vector graphics editor
- Windows Media Player
- Virtual PC PC emulator
- Windows Defender anti-virus and anti-spyware software
- Windows Live Writer blog publishing software
- XNA game development tool
- Visual Studio integrated development environment for C++, Visual Basic, C#, ect.
- Windows Live Messenger instant messenger
- DirectX multimedia API
- Money personal finance software
Publishing
- Microsoft Press releasing books dealing with various computer technologies.
Video Games
- The Halo series
- Microsoft Flight Simulator
- Microsoft Golf
- Microsoft Baseball
- Age of Empires
- Age of Mythology
- Halo Wars real-time strategy game in the Halo universe
- Fable and Fable 2
- Perfect Dark Zero
- Kameo: Elements of Power
- Perfect Dark: Initial Vector
- Crimson Skies
- Mechwarrior
- Combat Flight Simulator
- Microsoft Train Simulator
- Banjo-Kazooie 3
- Black & White
- The Movies
Services
- MSN internet service provider
- Encarta encyclopedia
- Hotmail free internet e-mail service
- Windows Live web portal
- XBOX Live Xbox online multiplayer service
- MSNBC news service
- Windows Marketplace online shopping service
- Windows Live Spaces social-networking service
- Windows Live ID online ID and password storage service
- LIVE Anywhere cross-platform multiplayer gaming service
- Microsoft Ignition online digital music service
Hardware Products
- Xbox gaming console
- Xbox 360 gaming console
- Surface touch-tone computer
- Zune portable media player
- Natural keyboard
- LifeCam webcam
- SideWinder game-pad and joystick
- Ultra-Mobile PC tablet computer
- Fingerprint Reader reads fingerprint as password
- IntelliPoint Mouse optical mouse
- MSN TV TV that allows web browsing
Corporate Slogan
- Where do you want to go today?
