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Microsoft is a multinational technology corporation founded in 1975 by Bill Gates and Paul Allen, known for products like Windows, Office, Xbox, Bing, and Azure. The company gained significant market share in personal computers through partnerships and product development, particularly with IBM. As of mid-2015, Microsoft reported annual revenue of $86.83 billion and employed over 128,000 people globally.

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Microsoft is a multinational technology corporation founded in 1975 by Bill Gates and Paul Allen, known for products like Windows, Office, Xbox, Bing, and Azure. The company gained significant market share in personal computers through partnerships and product development, particularly with IBM. As of mid-2015, Microsoft reported annual revenue of $86.83 billion and employed over 128,000 people globally.

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MICROSOFT

Microsoft is a multinational computer technology co rporation. Microsoft was founded on April 4,


1975, by Bill Gates and Paul Allen in Albuquerque, New Mexico.[1] Its current best-selling products
are the Microsoft Windows operating system; Microsoft Office, a suite of productivity
software; Xbox, a line of entertainment of games, music, and video; Bing, a line of search engines;
and Microsoft Azure, a cloud services platform.
In 1980, Microsoft formed a partnership with IBM to bundle Microsoft's operating system with IBM
computers; with that deal, IBM paid Microsoft a royalty for every sale. In 1985, IBM requested
Microsoft to develop a new operating system for their computers called OS/2. Microsoft produced
that operating system, but also continued to sell their own alternative, which proved to be in direct
competition with OS/2. Microsoft Windows eventually overshadowed OS/2 in terms of sales. When
Microsoft launched several versions of Microsoft Windows in the 1990s, they had captured over 90%
market share of the world's personal computers.
As of June 30, 2015, Microsoft has a global annual revenue of US$86.83 Billion and 128,076
employees worldwide. It develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range
of software products for computing devices.

1975–1985: The founding of Microsoft


1985–1994: Windows and Office
1995–2007: Foray into the Web, Windows 95, Windows XP, and Xbox
2007–2011: Microsoft Azure, Windows Vista, Windows 7, and Microsoft Stores
2011–2014: Windows 8, Xbox One, Outlook.com, and Surface devices
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