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Microsoft is an American multinational computer technology corporation whose history started 4th April 1975. Bill Gates and his childhood friend Paul Allen founded Microsoft, originally called Micro-Soft (hyphenated), for microprocessors and software, in order to produce software for the Altair 8800, an early personal computer. Allen quit his job as a programmer in Boston and Gates left Harvard University, where he was a student, to focus on their new company, which was based in Albuquerque because the city was home to electronics firm MITS, maker of the Altair 8800.
By the end of 1978, Microsoft’s sales topped more than $1 million and in 1979 the business moved its headquarters to Bellevue, Washington, a suburb of Seattle, where Gates and Allen grew up. The company went on to license its MS-DOS operating system to IBM for its first personal computer, which debuted in 1981. Afterward, other computer companies started licensing MS-DOS, which had no graphical interface and required users to type in commands in order to open a program.
In 1985, Microsoft released a new operating system, Windows, with a graphical user interface that included drop-down menus, scroll bars and other features. The following year, the company moved its headquarters to Redmond, Washington, and went public.
In 1989, Microsoft Office was released. Office is a software package that as the name describes is a collection of programs that you might use in the office. It includes a word possessor, spreadsheet, a mail program, business presentation software and more and become the world’s biggest personal-computer software company, based on sales.
In 1995, amidst skyrocketing purchases of personal computers for home and office use, Windows 95 made its debut. It included such innovations as the Start menu (TV commercials for Windows 95 featured the Rolling Stones singing “Start Me Up”) and 7 million copies of the new product were sold in the first five weeks. During the second half of the 1990s, 1995, Microsoft released Windows 95, which includes technologies for connecting to the Internet such as built-in support for dial-up networking, TCP/IP (Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol), and a web browser Internet Explorer 1.0.
Microsoft is engaged in developing, licensing and supporting a range of software products and services catering to different requirements. It specializes on Business Software, Design Tools, Developer Tools, Entertainment Products, Hardware, Home & Educational Software, Tablets, Search, Advertising, Servers, Windows Operating System, Windows Applications & Platforms, Smartphones, and Cloud Computing.
Steve Ballmer replaced Gates as CEO in 2000, and later envisioned a "devices and services" strategy. He began with the acquisition of Danger Inc. In 2001, Microsoft introduced their first gaming unit, the Xbox system. However, Xbox faced stiff competition from Sony's PlayStation 2 and eventually, Microsoft discontinued the Xbox. However, in 2005, Microsoft released their Xbox 360 gaming console which was a success and is still available on the market.
In 2008, entering he personal computer production market for the first time. In June 2012 with the launch of the Microsoft Surface line of tablet computers; and later forming Microsoft Mobile through the acquisition of Nokia's devices and services division.
Microsoft has increasingly diversified from the operating system market and has made a number of corporate acquisitions, their largest being the acquisition of LinkedIn December 2016, followed by their acquisition of Skype Technologies for in May 2011.
In 2014, Satya Nadella took over as CEO the company has scaled back on hardware and has instead focused on cloud computing, a move that helped the company's shares reach its highest value since December 1999.
As of 2015, Microsoft is market-dominant in the IBM PC-compatible operating system market and the office software suite market. The company also produces a wide range of other consumer and enterprise software for desktops and servers, including Internet search (with Bing), the digital services market (through MSN), mixed reality (HoloLens), cloud computing (Azure) and software development (Visual Studio).
Today, They live in a mobile-first, cloud-first world, and the transformation they are driving across their businesses is designed to enable Microsoft and their customers to thrive in this world.
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