Maker of DOS and Windows, almost monopolist as far as operating systems for home computers goes.
Company founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen in 1975. Makers of the Windows operating system and Microsoft Office.
The software company that is famous for developing the Windows operating system. Also developed Internet Explorer.
A company founded as "Micro-soft" in 1975 to produce software. Currently Microsoft is the biggest supplier of operating systems. Return to .
The world's largest vendor of personal computer software. Microsoft was founded in 1978 by Bill Gates and several others writing software for the emerging PC market. Success came with the contract to write the MS-DOS operating system for IBM who did not see them as a threat. Their present operating system Windows is now the worlds most popular operating system. The office suite of programmes (Word, Excel, Access, Power Point) form the backbone of its software product range.
Global computer firm producing software for computers.
The largest software developer in the world. Microsoft makes the Windows operating system.
Large software company that convinced IBM to pay for the purchase and alteration of a third company's prototype operating system, then sold that same operating system to any company that "acquired" the hardware technology needed to duplicate the IBM PC.
Software company started by Bill Gates and Paul Allen. With headquarters in Redmond, Washington, Microsoft is responsible for most computer operating systems and a wide variety of software including Windows, Visual C++, Visual Basic, Visual J++, and Microsoft Office Suite. To the Top N Section Net: Sort for Internet. See Internet.
The world's largest software producer and the company that created DOS and Windows. Based in Seattle, Washington, USA and headed by Bill Gates.
Microsoft is a leading software company. Bill Gates and Paul Allen founded it in 1975.
NOT A STANDARDS BODY however much they think they are. Microsoft is most noted for its attempts to corrupt public standards (embrace, extend, exterminate) to make them useful only for Windows users. All items listed here are DEFACTO Standards that relate to "Windows Only" environments and none other. OLE, ActiveX, COM, DCOM - A single user desktop software integration product invented by Wang Laboratories. IBM obtained the technology along with other Wang assets and licensed it to Microsoft. Microsoft has renamed it and pasted on extensions with each computing fad. Any software developer who adopts any incarnation of OLE condemns himself forever to "All Microsoft". OLE - Object Linking and Embedding ActiveX - They needed an "Internet" technology, so they renamed OLE. COM - Common Object Model - they needed to put OLE on networks. DCOM - Distributed COM - they needed OLE to be for "thin client" computing.
Microsoft is the by far the largest software company in the world. Microsoft is run by Bill Gates, the world's richest man. Yet somehow, through it all, they manage to find the time to take care of the little things, such as squashing out their competition like cigar butts.
One of the largest software companies in the world. We're sure we don't need to say much more than that.
By far the largest software provider for PCs, they created Windows, Microsoft Office (which includes Word, Excel, Access and Powerpoint), Internet Explorer and many other widely used programs.
Multi-billion pound software and technology house. Owned by Bill Gates, Microsoft create the corner stone of the PC market software: Widows, Word, Excel, Internet Explorer and Windows Media Player to name a few.
The world's largest developer and publisher of software based in Redmond, Seattle, USA. Headed by William (Bill) Gates, the richest (non-royal) person on this planet.
One of the largest companies in the world, famously headed by Bill Gates - at one time the richest man in the world. Some consider Microsoft to be an evil empire, and certainly their business practices are heavy-handed and illegal as shown by the court case brought up by the US Department Of Justice. Microsoft bought The Blue Ribbon Soundworks to create it's Direct Music software for Windows, which is largely based on Bars&Pipes and ! SuperJAM!. More information is available on the Microsoft website.
A global software and operating system company based in the USA. See also Software, Operating System and Windows.
Software world leader. The main products are Windows and MS-Office which is composed of WORD, EXCEL, PowerPoint and MAIL.
The computer industry giant responsible for DOS, Windows, Windows 95 and assorted business and personal software. Now challenging Netscape is the web browser market with Internet Explorer.
A software company, based in the USA, that develops the Windows operating system and SQL Server database management system.
C'mon, everybody has heard of Microsoft! Home of Bill Gates. The world's largest operating system and application software development company. Products include Windows 95, the MS Office Suite, the MS Internet Explorer, and far too many others to list here.
That programming machine out in Redmond, Washington that continues to define trends in personal computers. Their applications division includes some of the most popular software to date, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Works. Their systems division, of course, is responsible for bringing Windows, Windows for Workgroups, and Windows NT to the world.
Microsoft Corporation, (, ) is a multinational computer technology corporation with global annual revenue of US$44.28 billion and 76,000 employees in 102 countries. It develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of software products for computing devices. Headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA, its best selling products are the Microsoft Windows operating system and the Microsoft Office suite of productivity software.