Basic informations of Microsoft

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MICROSOFT

·        The word being a portmanteau of “Microcomputer software” was founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen on April 4, 1975, to develop and sell Basic Interpreters for the Altair 8800. It rose to dominate the personal computer operating system market with MS-DOS in the mid-1980s, followed by Microsoft windows.

Microsoft industry

      ·        Software development

      ·                  Computer hardware

      ·                  Consumer electronics

      ·                  Social networking service

      ·                  Cloud computing

      ·                  Video games

      ·                  Internet

      ·                  Corporate venture capital

Headquarters

     ·                 One Microsoft Way Redmond Washington, The U.S.

Area served

     ·               Worldwide

Key people

     ·               Charmain: john W.Thompson

     ·              CEO: Satya Nadella

     ·              President: Brad smith

•              Technical advisor: Bill Gates

List of software

·        Windows

·        Office

·        Servers

·        Skype

·        Visual studio

·        Dynamics

·         Xbox

·        Surface

·        Mobile

Services

     ·        Azur

     ·        Bing

     ·        Linkedin

     ·       Yammer

     ·        MSDN

     ·       Office 365

     ·       One drive

     ·       Outlook.com

     ·       GitHub

     ·      TechNet

     ·       Pay

     ·       Microsoft store

     ·     Windows update

     ·        Xbox games pass

     ·        Xbox live

History of Microsoft

                Childhood friends bill gates and Paul Allen sought to make a business using their skills in computer programming in 1972, they founded Traf-o-data, which Solda a rudimentary computer to track and analyze automobile traffic data. Gates enrolled at Harvard University while Allen pursued a degree in computer science at Washington state university, though he later dropped out to work at Honeywell the January 1975 issue of popular electronics featured micro instrumentation and Telemetry system’s Alter 8800 microcomputer, which inspired Allen suggests that they could program a Basic interpreter for the device.

 Gates called MITS and claimed that he had a working interpreter and MITS requested a demonstration. Allen worked on a simulator for the Altair while Gates developed the interpreter, and it worked flawlessly when they demonstrated it to MITS in March 1975 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. MITS agreed to distribute it, marketing it as Altair basic Gates and Allen established Microsoft on April 4, 1975, with gates as CEO, and Allen suggested the name “micro-soft”, short for micro-computer software. In August 1977, the company formed an agreement with ASCII Magazine in Japan, resulting in its first international office of ASCII Microsoft. Microsoft moved its headquarters to Bellevue, Washington in January 1979.

Microsoft entered the operating system (OS) business in 1980 with its own version of Unix called Xenia, but it was MS-DOS that solidified the company’s dominance. IBM awarded a contract to Microsoft in November 1980 to provide a version of the CP\M OS to be used in the IBM Personal Computer (IBM PC). 

For this deal, Microsoft purchased a CP/M clone called 86-DOS from Seattle Computer products which it branded as MS-DOS although IBM rebranded ownership of MS-DOS following the release of the IBM PC in August 1981. IBM had copyrighted the IBM PC BIOS, so other companies had to reverse engineer it in order for non-IBM hardware to run as IBM PC compatibles, but no such restriction applied to the operating systems.

 Microsoft eventually became the leading PC operating system vendor. The company expanded into new markets with the release of the Microsoft Mouse in 1983, as well as with a publishing division named Microsoft Press. Paul Allen resigned from Microsoft in 1983 after developing Hodgkin’s disease. Allen claimed in IDEA MAN: a memoir by the co-founder of Microsoft that gates wanted to dilute his share in the company when he was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s disease because he did not think that he was working hard enough. Allen later invested in Low-tech sectors, sports teams, commercial real estate, neuroscience, private space flight, and more.

TYPES OF MICROSOFT OFFICE

·            WIN WORD

·               MS EXCEL

·             ACCESS

·             POWERPOINT

·             OUTLOOK

·             ONEDRIVE

·             ONENOTE

·             TODO

·             FAMILY SAFETY

·             POWER AUTOMATE

·             PUBLISHER

·             SWAY

·             SKYPE

MORE FROM MICROSOFT OFFICE

·             BLING

·             REWARD

·             PRIVACY

·             MSN

HISTORY OF MICROSOFT OFFICE

It was first announced by Bill Gates on August 1, 1988 at COMDEX in Las Vegas. Initially, a marketing term for an office suite (bundled set of productivity applications), the first version of office contained Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, and Microsoft PowerPoint. Over the years, Office applications have grown substantially closer with shared features such as a common spell checker, OLE data integration, and Visual Basic for Applications scripting language. Microsoft also positions Office as a development platform for line-of-business software under the office business applications brand. On July 10,2012, Softpedia reported that the office was being used by over a billion people worldwide.