Microsoft

Microsoft Corporation is an American based multinational company, which deals with the computer technology. With annual revenue of US$44.28 billion and comprising of almost 76,000 employees within 102 countries, it is one of the reputed brands to work with. Categorized within the Computer and laptop brand, Microsoft primarily develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports software products for computing devices. Microsoft Technology has its headquarter based in Redmond within Washington, of the USA territory.

Microsoft is known for its best selling products like Microsoft Windows operating system and the Microsoft Office suite. The company is even referred to as MS or MSFT. Microsoft's mission statement is "a computer on every desk and in every home, running Microsoft software”. Microsoft is popular for its resources like MSNBC cable television network, the MSN Internet portal, and the Microsoft Encarta multimedia encyclopedia. Computer hardware products like Microsoft mouse along with home entertainment devices like Xbox, Xbox 360, Zune and MSN TV have emerged as popular branded devices under the tag name.

Microsoft primarily developed and sold BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800, and almost took over the market of home computer operating system with developing of MS-DOS during mid-1980s.

Microsoft offers developer-centric business culture, and continuously provides customer support via the Usenet newsgroups and the World Wide Web. Bill Gates is the Co-founder and Executive Chairman of the Microsoft brand today. Microsoft mainly deals with sectors like Industry Computer software, Publishing, Research and development, Computer hardware and Video games. Microsoft deals with products like:

•  Developer Tools

•  Business Solutions

•  Microsoft Windows

•  Microsoft Office

•  Microsoft Servers

•  Games and Xbox

•  Windows Live