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Structure

History

The founders

The beginning,Microsoft today andeverything between

Products and theirinfluence on themarket

Operating systems andtheir evolution

PC OS

Non - PC OS

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Software

Internet applications

Office applications

Graphic design

Utilities

OtherEntertainment

Consoles

Portables

Peripheral devices

Miscellaneous

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The founders

Bill Gates

Born as William Bill Henry Gates III on 28.October 1955 in Seattle, Washington

Parents: William H. Gates, Sr. and Mary MaxwellGates

Siblings: 1 elder sister Kristianne, 1 younger sisterLibby

Visited Lakeside h.s. from 68 73, where hediscovered his passion for programming

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Enrolled in harvard in 1973

Left Harvard in 1975 without a graduation formicrosoft

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Paul allen

Paul Gardner Allen (born January 21, 1953)

Born in Seattle, Washington

Visited same hs. as Bill Gates, where they becamefriends

Attended Washington State University

Dropped out after 2 years worked as aprogrammer

Convinced Gates to quit Univ. and to raise Microsoft

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The rise of Microsoft

Founded in 1975 by Gates and Allen

They have read in an Computer magazine about anew Computer, the Altair 8800. Gates called the

Producer and offered to develop an implementationof the programming language BASIC for the Altair.

They had no interpreter(something like eclipse) noran Altair, yet they were able to fullfill their offer

The producer of the Altair acceptet their interpreterand decided to distribute it.

Gates and allen quitted their previous Job/studiesand moved to Albuquerque, New Mexico, where the

Producer of the Altair was located

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The revenue of Microsoft was in 1975 1000000$

1978: Microsofts first international office wasestablished in Japan

1979 they moved to Bellevue, Washington They changed their corporate form into an inc.

Gates became the first president of the company andChairman of the Board, and Paul Allen became ExecutiveVice President

1980: Xenix, MS's first OS, was published

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Microsoft "blibbet" logo, filed August 26, 1982 at the USPTO andused until 1987

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1981, after negotiations with Digital Researchfailed, IBM awarded a contract to Microsoft to

provide a version of the CP/M operatingsystem, which was set to be used in theupcoming IBM Personal Computer (PC)

MS developped their OS Dos, which caused MS

breakthrough on the market 1983 First Word was published along with the

MS mouse and MS press

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1985 MS Windows(1.0) was published

1986 MS relocated to Redmond, where theyare still located and went public, raising US$61

million at US$21.00 per share. By the end ofthe trading day, the price had risen to US$28.00

1986 MS Works was published for Apple's Mac

1989 MS Office is out 1990 Microsoft launched Windows 3.0

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1993 MS has been elected as the mostinnovative company by Fortune Magazine

1997 IE was published, which was the new nr 1

browser Microsoft became in the following years one of

the biggest and most influencial enterprisesever

Thanks to MS 12000 people becamemillionaires and an handful became evenbillionaires

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In 2009 MS had a revenue of 58,440,000000$

They had their highest revenue in 08 with60000000000$

It became a real global player,with 92.736

employees worldwide

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Criticism and litigations You could sumarize MS's business strategies

with 3 words: embrace, extend and extinguish Ms copies a product, extends it,establishs it and

pushs out it rivals

This strategy lead to many many charges They also abuse their power to bind partners to

them ,to make them dependent or disable

sevices like msn for rival products MS has been charged by rivals as well as by

nations(primary the U.S.) and private persons

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Several MS products have been ''inspired'' byrival products

MS also bought PC salesman over to sell their

pc's with a MS OS pre-installed and nothingelse

MS also swallowed many rivals, which caughtthe eye of the department of justice

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OS for PC

Xenix Xenix is a version of the Unix operating system,

licensed by Microsoft from AT&T in the late 1970s

It included a very primitive office program anddevelopment kits

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MS DOS

MS-DOS grew from a 1981 request by IBM foran operating system for its IBM PC range ofpersonal computers

MS quickly bought the rights to QDOS (Quickand Dirty Operating System), also known as 86-DOS, from Seattle Computer Products, andbegan work on modifying it to meet IBM's

specification Established MS as the leading OS company

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MSX DOS MSX-DOS is a Disk operating system developed by

Microsoft for the 8-bit home computer standardMSX, and is a cross between MS-DOS rev 1.0 andCP/M.

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Windows 1 Windows 1.0 is a 16-bit graphical operating

environment that was released on 20 November1985. It was Microsoft's first attempt to implement amulti-tasking graphical user interface-basedoperating environment on the PC platform.Windows 1.0 was the first version of Windowslaunched. It was succeeded by Windows 2.0

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Windows 2 The first word and Excel ran on W 2

Apple blamed MS for stealing their Icons

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Windows 3 Better usage of the technical possibilities

First W with the card game solitaire

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Windows NT 3.1 is the first release ofMicrosoft's Windows NT line of server andbusiness desktop operating systems, and wasreleased to manufacturing on 27 July 1993

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MS published several OS for PC's as well asservers and portable PC's and smartphones

The Only benefits of the newer versions are

better usage of the technical possibilities,whichenable more demanding programs like high-endgames and more service from MS

The most of you probably won't need an edition

higher than XP,if at all.Well it's kinda boring totell you,xy came out than and supported kernelthis bla bla bla so I decided to skip it andprovide a foto tour through the evolution ofWindows and co

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Okay I think that was enough. Actually, I wantedto show and tell you about other products byMS,but most of them are boring and don'tinterest you anyways,so I'm also going to skip

the whole office stuff etc. nobody engagesoneself in this stuff for fun anyways.

I've chosen a couple of MS Products which are

quite interesting

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Those are the games and MS surface.Youprobably never heard of latter,but I will fix that

Let's start with the games: The most

remarkable games by MS,or by one of MS'ssub-enterprises, are:

The Age of Empires series

Halo

A f i

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Age of empires

Real-time strategy game Consists of following parts:

Age of empires(1997): It's based in a pre-ancient

time or better said, you play the leader of a villageof neandertalers, which you have to bring throughthe beginning of mankind.You can either play acampaigne or a single game against the PC oranother player. You can choose between severalancient civilisations like the egypts or less knowncivilsations like yamato(ancient japanese people)

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AoE: The rise of rome(1998) An add-on for the first AoE.Like the namesuggests,

you can play Csar and conquer the world for yourempire

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AoE II:the age of kings(1999) Plays in the medieval.You can play european

civilisations(Germans,britains),Asian(japanese,

chinese) and oriental(turks,arabs) The graphics are better than in AoE1

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Age of Empires II: The Conquerors(2000) Add-on for AoE 2: You can play now south-

american civilisations and the spanish conquerors

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AoE III(2005) The actions in the game take place fom 1500-

1900

Available civilisations: Ottomans

Germans

Portugese

Rusians Dutch

Spanish

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Enough of AoE Now to a mor dynamic game: Halo

Halo was released in 2005 and is a sci-fi

shooter. The world in the year 2552. Themankind was forced to settle foreign planetsbecause the earth is overpopulated. With thediscovering of more and more planets,the man

is discovered by a highly-developed alienalliance, who wants to dominate the universe

Mankinds last hope is the master chief, the last

remaining Member of a special unit of

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Genetically Modified super soldiers,or bettersaid:YOU

You were able to escape fom an attack of the

alliance on an artificial planet calledHalo,which is actually a super weapon of thealliance to destroy the mankind.Well,guesswhat? Right,you are going to blow the planet

into pieces

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Halo 2(2004): A fanatic religious leader of the alliance tries to

activate one of the halos, superweapons fordestroying every intelligent form of life. Well, you

probably already know who's gonna stop this crazyguy

Microsoft surface

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Microsoft surface

Microsoft is a table like touch screencomputer.You don't need a mouse or akeyboard to use it a hand is enough.Unlike witha touchscreen,surface can handle several

hands.It can even recognize objects likeCameras and mobile phones. You can evenpaint on it with a real brush