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Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational computer technology corporation. It develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of software products for computing devices. Microsoft's best-selling products are the Microsoft Windows operating system and the Microsoft Office suite of... Read enhanced Wikipedia article
Industry:
Geographic Information System (6 hidden)
Symbol: 4338, MSFT
Market Cap: US $ 340,000,000,000 (December 31, 2007)
Founders:
Paul Allen, Bill Gates
Date Founded:
1975
Place Founded:
Albuquerque
Subsidiaries:
Sysinternals, Tellme Networks, Powerset (7 hidden)
Board Members:
David Marquardt, Helmut Panke (7 hidden)
Headquarters: 1 Microsoft Way
Redmond Washington
Albuquerque
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developed :
OHCI, format, HighMAT, databases, library, systems, standard, WS-Policy, System, APIs and OS/2.

Microsoft developed OHCI

Universal Serial Bus OHCI was developed by Compaq, Microsoft and National Semiconductor; UHCI was by Intel.

Microsoft developed format

HighMAT HighMAT (High Performance Media Access Technologies) is a media format jointly developed by Matsushita and Microsoft for personal CD authoring with music and photo content.

Microsoft developed HighMAT

HighMAT HighMAT (High Performance Media Access Technologies) is a media format jointly developed by Matsushita and Microsoft for personal CD authoring with music and photo content.

Microsoft developed databases

Semantic desktop WinFS, a data storage and management system based on relational databases, developed by Microsoft

Microsoft developed library

Java Foundation Classes At the same time, another graphics library, called Application Foundation Classes (AFC), was developed independently by Microsoft.

Microsoft developed systems

University of California, Berkeley Sun Microsystems, Google, and Microsoft are funding a $7.5 million dollar Reliable, Adaptive and Distributed Systems Laboratory to develop more reliable computing systems.

Microsoft developed standard

WS-Policy Framework WS-Policy is a standard developed by IBM, BEA, Microsoft, SAP, Sonic, and VeriSign.[1]

Microsoft developed WS-Policy

WS-Policy Framework WS-Policy is a standard developed by IBM, BEA, Microsoft, SAP, Sonic, and VeriSign.[1]

Microsoft developed System

Installable File System When IBM and Microsoft were codeveloping OS/2, they realized that File Allocation Tables, FATs, were not good enough for hard disks, and Microsoft began developing the High Performance File System, codenamed Pinball.

Microsoft developed APIs

Installable File System Instead of coding it inside the kernel, as FAT was, Microsoft developed a "driver-based" Filesystem API that could allow them and other developers to add new filesystems to the kernel without needing to modify it.

Microsoft developed OS/2

Installable File System When Microsoft stopped developing OS/2 and concentrated in what was then called OS/2 NT, they took the IFS ideas to it, along with the HPFS filesystem.

released :
Window, preview, update, Microsoft Windows, managers, xp, Professional and fix.

Microsoft released Window

3d game design Also during this time Microsoft released the highly anticipated Window 95 platform for PCs, Playstation was released into the US as well.

Microsoft released preview

Windows Live PhotoZoom Microsoft has released this technology preview to the public on March 6, 2008 along with the beta release of Silverlight 2.0.

Microsoft released update

Modding Microsoft soon caught what was happening and released an automatic update that checked for modded bios on the Xbox.

Microsoft released Microsoft Windows

Interface metaphor In 1985, Microsoft released Microsoft Windows which bore a striking resemblance to both Macintosh, and to the Alto's interface.

Microsoft released managers

QEMM Microsoft released comparable but simpler memory managers of its own - HIMEM.SYS for XMS and EMM386.EXE for EMS with MS-DOS 4.01 in 1989; earlier Windows/386 2.1 included a built-in EMM which offered EMS to DOS windows during Windows sessions only.

Microsoft released xp

64-bit On April 30, Microsoft releases Windows XP Professional x64 Edition for AMD64 and EM64T processors.

Microsoft released Professional

64-bit On April 30, Microsoft releases Windows XP Professional x64 Edition for AMD64 and EM64T processors.

Microsoft released fix

iTunes version history *Running iTunes on Windows Home Server may cause data corruption, of which Microsoft has not yet released a fix.

acquired :
company, latter, Lookout Software, Pacific Microsonics, assets and Ink Development Corp..

Microsoft acquired company

High Definition Compatible Digital In 2000, Microsoft acquired the company and all of its intellectual property assets.

trueSpace In early 2008, the company was acquired by Microsoft.

Mailroute Thomas A. Johnson was also the original founder and CEO of FrontBridge, the email filtering company that was acquired by Microsoft in 2005 [1].

Microsoft acquired latter

RenderWare It originated in the era of software rendering on PCs prior to the appearance of GPUs, competing with other libraries such as Argonaut's BRender and RenderMorphics' Reality Lab (the latter was acquired by Microsoft and became Direct3D).

Microsoft acquired Lookout Software

Eric Hahn Hahn also co-founded Lookout Software, which was acquired by Microsoft in 2004.

Microsoft acquired Pacific Microsonics

High Definition Compatible Digital Pacific Microsonics acquisition by Microsoft

Microsoft acquired assets

High Definition Compatible Digital In 2000, Microsoft acquired the company and all of its intellectual property assets.

Microsoft acquired Ink Development Corp.

Pierre Omidyar Prior to founding eBay, Pierre co-founded Ink Development Corp., later renamed eShop and acquired by Microsoft.

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    Microsoft

    Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) (SEHK: 4338) is an American multinational computer technology corporation. It develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of software products for computing devices.
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    Category:Microsoft

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    History of Microsoft

    Spyglass went on to later dispute the terms of the agreement, as Microsoft was to pay a royalty for every copy sold.
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    List of acquisitions by Microsoft

    This is a list of acquisitions by Microsoft, a computer software company founded on April 4 1975.
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    Microsoft Home

    Microsoft Home was a line of software applications and personal hardware products published by Microsoft Corporation. Microsoft Home software titles first appeared in the middle of 1993.
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    Microsoft Office

    Microsoft Office is a set of interrelated desktop applications, servers and services, collectively referred to as an office suite, for the Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X operating systems.
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    Microsoft Word

    Microsoft Word is Microsoft's flagship word processing software. It was first released in 1983 under the name Multi-Tool Word for Xenix systems.
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    Microsoft Works

    Microsoft Works is an office suite ("home productivity software suite") available from Microsoft. Smaller, less expensive with fewer features than the Microsoft Office suite, its core functionality includes a word processor, a spreadsheet and a database.
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    List of Microsoft codenames

    Microsoft usually does not announce a final name until shortly before the product is publicly available.
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    Microsoft Points

    Microsoft Points (denoted as ) are the currency of the Xbox Live Marketplace, Windows Live Gallery and Zune online stores. The points allow users to purchase content without a credit card, and reduce the number of small credit card transaction fees which Microsoft would otherwise pay.

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