MicrosoftMicrosoft is one of the largest software companies in the world at all, and is the headquarters of the company in the suburb of "Redmont" a suburb of the city of "Seattle", located in the state of "Washington" America on the west coast of the United States. At the founding of Microsoft, took all of Bill Gates and "Paul Alan" the city "Alpokoiyrko" from the state of "New Mexico" the seat of the company and hence the company moved to its current location. It should be noted that the "Bill Gates" and "Paul Alan" are the founders and owners of this company before it became public companies traded in the stock marketsCompany Type Public (NASDAQ: MSFT)
New Mexico was founded (1975)
Location: Redmond, Washington
Important members: Bill Gates, the founder of
Paul Allen, the founder of
Steve polymer, Executive Director
Industry: Computer Software, Video Games
Hot Products: Microsoft Office
Microsoft Windows
Microsoft Xbox
Windows Mobile
Market value: $ 36.8 billion USD (2004)Internet site: www.microsoft.comCompany History:Microsoft was founded in 1975 as a company to market processors known for Basic and Microsoft Corp. this product because of its quality and raced the rest of the companies to provide the market-compatible processors with a processor Basic Basic from Microsoft. As a result companies scramble in the above-mentioned race, the processor Basic and produced by Microsoft as the standard in Basic processors and Microsoft dominated the market and the Basic treatments of both Bill Gates and Paul Allen registered trademark "Microsoft" on November 26, 1976.In late 1980, She needed the IBM operating system for your Alkmpiotralchksa to be brought to market by Microsoft arose the role of mediator between the company "Seattle Computer Products," and IBM to use the operating system QDOS by the first company to personal devices IBM. Microsoft has finally bought the commercial rights to QDOS and called MS-DOS. The company introduced IBM PC in 1981 and the operating system extension device called PC-DOS and Microsoft Corp. has rights to the product to save MS-DOS and the granting of a commercial license for the marketing for IBM PC-DOS operating system for hardware IBM.In the early eighties, the world witnessed a quantum leap in personal computers compatible with IBM personal devices and Microsoft were among the first of the event to do to provide these devices with identical hardware IBM operating system MS-DOS. This, the company has become the single dominant Microsoft operating system when it relates to modern personal computers.Were not the software used on PCs better technically from those used on supercomputers, but characterized the first from the second it gave a degree of freedom in the use of these programs is better not to mention the cheap cost of the programs that run on personal computers, compared with the cost of the same programs that run on supercomputers. It should be noted that one of the most important reasons for the dominance of Microsoft's speed on the world of software is a surge in the spread of personal computer in the era of the eighties of the last century.Months in the Microsoft products today are the current Windows operating system and upon which the majority of users Alkmiotr.Not limited to activity on Microsoft Windows program or BASIC or MS-DOS, but the company has worked to develop a package of programs as bases of data, text editors, and other fields, and even the Microsoft development and marketing of computer games as a flight simulator the famous "Flight simulator".
