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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