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2022.12.29 11:48
Microsoft Corporation is a multinational technology company based in the United States that makes personal computers, consumer electronics, software, and related services. The Windows operating system, the Microsoft Office suite, and the web browsers Internet Explorer and Edge are the most well-known software offerings from Microsoft, which has its headquarters in Redmond, Washington.
The Xbox video game consoles and the Microsoft Surface lineup of touchscreen personal computers are its flagship hardware offerings.
Microsoft came in first. 21 on the Fortune 500 list of the largest companies in the United States by total revenue in 2020; As of 2019, it had the most revenue of any software company in the world. Along with Alphabet (Google), Amazon, Apple, and Meta (Facebook), it is one of the Big Five American information technology companies.
On April 4, 1975, Bill Gates and Paul Allen established Microsoft to create and market BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800. With MS-DOS in the middle of the 1980s, it rose to the top of the market for operating systems for personal computers, followed by Windows.
Three billionaires and an estimated 12,000 millionaires among Microsoft employees were created as a result of the company’s IPO in 1986 and subsequent rise in share price.
It has increased its diversification from the operating system market since the 1990s and has made a number of corporate acquisitions, the largest of which was the $26.2 billion purchase of LinkedIn in December 2016, followed by the $8.5 billion purchase of Skype Technologies in May 2011.
