“ IN THE NAME OF ALLAH MOST MERCIFUL & MOST

GRACIOUS”
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1 Arslan (G.L) R# 02

2 Imran Babar R# 64

3 Kamran Ali R# 42

4 M.Sharif R# 34

5 M.Ahmed R# 90

6 Fozia Mumtaz R# 88

7 Rehan Aziz FA08 R# 67

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 Microsoft Corporation
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.

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 History & Achievements
History & Achievements of Microsoft Corporation can be
defined in four stages of development.
Stage – I
(1975–1985: The founding of Microsoft)
 Bill Gates known as the creator of the new microcomputer. The
company's first international office was founded on November 1,
1978, in Japan,(now called "Microsoft Japan")
 On January 1, 1979, the company moved to a new home in Bellevue,
Washington. The DOS (Disk Operating System) was the operating
system that brought the company its real success.

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 Stage – II
(1985–1995: Rise of Windows)
 On November 20, 1985, Microsoft released its first
retail version of Microsoft Windows.

 In 1989, Microsoft introduced its office product

named Microsoft Office. Microsoft Office is a bundle
of separate office productivity applications, such as
Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel and so forth.

 On May 22, 1990 Microsoft launched Windows

3.0.The new version of Microsoft's operating system
boasted with new features.

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 Stage – II
(1985–1995: Rise of Windows)
 In 1993 Microsoft released Windows NT 3.1
 In 1995, Microsoft released Windows 95, a
new version of the company's flagship
operating system which featured a completely
new user interface.
 More than one million copies of Microsoft
Windows 95 were sold in the first four days
after its release. The company later released its
web browser named Internet Explorer.

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 Stage – III
(1995–2005: The Internet & XP)
 In the mid-90s, Microsoft began to expand its product
line into computer networking and the World Wide
Web.
 On August 24, 1995, it launched a major online
service, MSN (Microsoft Network), as a direct
competitor to AOL(America on line). MSN became
an umbrella service for Microsoft's online services.
 Later in 1997, Internet Explorer 4.0 was released for
both Mac OS and Windows.

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 Stage – III
(1995–2005: The Internet & XP)
 The year 1998, The company released Windows 98,
an update to Windows 95 that incorporated a number
of Internet-focused features and support for new
types of devices.

 In 2001, Microsoft released Windows XP, the first

version that encompassed the features of both its
business and home product lines. XP introduced a
new graphical user interface, the first such change
since Windows.

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 Stage – IV
(2005–2007: Vista and more transitions)
 In 2006 Bill Gates announced a two year transition
period from his role as Chief Software Architect, which
would be taken by Ray Ozzie, and planned to remain
the company's chairman.

 Windows Vista is Microsoft's latest operating system,

released in January 2007. Microsoft Office 2007 was
released at the same time.

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 Products
Microsoft Platform Products and Services Divisions.
Operating System’s Utilities Software
Windows 3.1 MSN Hotmail Development
Windows 95 MSN Messenger MS Visual
Windows 2000 MS online magazine Studio.NET
Windows 2000 server Windows Live SQL Server
Windows Me Messenger Exchange Server
Windows Server 2003 The online service MSN
Windows XP The cable television
station MSNBC
Windows Vista
 Microsoft Business Division
No. Microsoft Office Functions
1. Microsoft Word A Word Processor
2. Microsoft Access A Personal Relational Database
Application
3. Microsoft Excel A Spreadsheet Program
4. Microsoft Outlook. Exchange Server (Organizer)
5. Microsoft Pow Point Presentation Software
6. Microsoft FrontPage A HTML Editor
7. Microsoft Publisher Desktop Publishing Software
8. Microsoft Visio Visual Representation Software
9. Microsoft Project Project Related Software
 Microsoft Entertainment and
Devices Division
No. Entertainment Hardware Entertainment Software
1. Microsoft Xbox 360 Age of Empires
2. Windows CE Halo
3. Windows Mobile Microsoft Flight Simulator
4. MSN TV Microsoft Zone
5. Digital Video Recorder (DVR)
 Information
 The Head office of Microsoft is in USA, there are
71,172 employees working, with offices all over the
world including Pakistan.
 Founded in 1975, Microsoft (NASDAQ "MSFT") is
the worldwide leader in software, services and
solutions that help people and businesses realize their
full potential.
 Board of Directors
No. Name Information
1. Steven A. Ballmer Chief Executive Officer, Microsoft
Corporation
2. James I. Cash Jr. Ph.D. Professor, Harvard Business School
3. Dina Dublon Former Chief Financial Officer,
JPMorgan Chase
4. William H. Gates III Chairman, Microsoft Corporation
5. Raymond V. Gilmartin Former Chairman, President and CEO,
Merck .Inc
6. David F. Marquardt General Partner, August Capital
7. Charles H. Noski Former Vice Chairman, AT&T
Corporation
8. Dr. Helmut Panke Former Chairman, BMW AG
9. Jon A. Shirley Former President and Chief Operating
Officer, Microsoft Corporation
 Location & Operation Centers
Head Office Microsoft Corporation
One Microsoft Way
Redmond, WA 98052-7329
USA
Tel: (425) 882-8080
Fax: (425) 706-7329
Web site: http://www.microsoft.com

Operation Role Location

Centers Licensing, Manufacturing, Dublin, Ireland
Operations and Logistics.

Manufacturing Humacao, Puerto

Rico, USA
Licensing and Operations Reno, Nevada, USA
Operations and Logistics Singapore
 Looking Ahead
 Shift toward Software-plus-Services
 Reshaping and transforming existing offerings
 Future of connected software and services
 Applications and services that once stood apart
become far more valuable when taken together.
 Business moves faster, ideas flow more freely
and people grow more deeply connected.
 Life at Microsoft Research
Find out what it’s like working in one of the six
Microsoft Research labs or centers around the globe.
 Bangalore (INDIA)
Established in January 2005, the India lab
conducts long-term basic and applied research in
several areas.
 Asia (Beijing, China)
Since its founding in November 1998, the Asia lab has
been Microsoft’s basic research arm in the Asia-Pacific
region.
 New England (Cambridge, MA, U.S.)
Opened in July 2008, Microsoft Research New
England continues to build on Microsoft’s commitment
to advance the state of the art.
 Cambridge (Cambridge, U.K.)
Founded in 1997, the Cambridge lab conducts
basic computer science research on a wide variety of
topics.
 Redmond (Redmond, WA, U.S.)
Founded on the Microsoft Redmond campus in
1991, the Redmond lab has most of the computer
scientists working at this location.
 Silicon Valley (Mountain View, CA, U.S.)
Founded in August 2001, the Silicon Valley lab
focuses on distributed computing research. In January
2006, the Silicon Valley lab merged with Microsoft’s
Bay Area Research Center in San Francisco.
 Extreme Computing Group (Redmond, WA,
U.S.)
Formed in June 2009, the extreme Computing
Group (XCG) develops radical new approaches to ultra
scale and high-performance computing hardware and
software.
 Competitors
Symbol Company Last Change % Change
Name Volume
MSFT Microsoft 30.48 -0.48 , -1.55 31.92M
Corporation
AAPL Apple 210.732 -0.908 , -0.43 12.58M
Incorporation
ORCL Oracle 24.53 -0.40 ,-1.60 17.71M
Corporation
GOOG Google 619.98 -2.75 , -0.44 1.22M
Incorporation
 Windows Vs Linux
Windows Linux
 In Windows ,GUI is an  Linux GUI is optional
integral component of where Linux is more
the OS. command based
 Speed, efficiency and  Speed, efficiency and
reliability are all less by reliability are all
running a without a GUI increased by running a
server instance of
Linux.
 Cont….
 Windows are expensive  Linux is very cheap or
 Microsoft allows a free,
single copy of Windows  Once a Linux is
to be used on only one purchased, it can be
computer used in multiple
 Windows has a standard computers.
process for installing  There is a huge
and uninstalling variation in the Linux
programs. installation procedure
 Cont…
 No free application  Linux when bought
software with it comes with free
 Microsoft makes a application software.
version of Office for
Windows  There is no version of
 Window can not be Microsoft Office for
installed in system Linux.
having already Linux
due to the Compatibility  Linux can be installed in
of Linux. the machine where
Windows is installed
already
 Cont…..
 Windows allows  Linux stores all user
programs to store user data in the home
information (files and directory making it
settings) anywhere much easier to migrate
 Windows must boot from an old computer to
from the first hard disk a new one.
 Linux can boot from any
hard disk in the
computer.
 Cont…
 Windows is designed  Linux, like all Unix
to be used by one variants, is designed to
person at a time. handle multiple
 Windows users are concurrent users.
burdened with the  Linux Users are
need for anti-virus much secured.
 Criticism
 Since the 1980s, Microsoft has been the focus of
much controversy in the computer industry.
 The majority of criticism has been for its business
tactics, often described with the motto "embrace,
extend and extinguish."
 Microsoft initially embraces a competing standard or
product, then extends it to produce their own version
which is then incompatible with the standard, which
in time extinguishes competition that does not or
cannot use Microsoft's new version.
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