Intro

In 1975, two young men from Seattle founded a company that would be to the Computer Age what the Ford Motor Company was to the Automobile Age. Like Henry Ford, William H. Gates III (b. 1955) and Paul Allen (b. 1953) transformed a new technology by building on the inventions of others. Originally called Micro-soft, an abbreviation for microcomputer software Helped change the living, working, and recreational habits of hundreds of millions of people around the world.

Genesis
BILL GATES October 28, 1955. Seattle, Washington. Harvard College Dropout Saw a Computer for the first time 1968 Hired by computer company Worked for other companies, finding and fixing bugs 1970 First microcomputer on a cover page of a magazine 1974

Genesis
The right time to develop software Altair Manufacturers. Microsoft formed Licensed MS-DOS to IBM 31 year old billionaire 1986 First version of WINDOWS 1987 Focus shifted to web browser - 1995

Key People

Bill Gates Chairman Steven A. Ballmer CEO William H. Gates III Chairman Raymond V. Gilmartin Reed Hastings Maria M. Klawe David F. Marquardt Charles H. Noski Dr. Helmut Panke

Operation Centers
Licensing, Manufacturing, Operations and Logistics - Dublin, Ireland Manufacturing - Puerto Rico, USA Licensing and Operations - Reno, Nevada, USA Operations and Logistics - Singapore

Microsofts Business

Interactive Entertainment Business Key entertainment experiences that span gaming, music and video across multiple screens, including Xbox 360, Xbox LIVE, the controller-free Kinect for Xbox 360, Zune Music and Video, and Mediaroom, as well as PC and mobile interactive entertainment. Microsoft Business Solutions A portfolio of Microsoft Dynamics products and services, as well as Microsoft Health Solutions.

Microsoft Office Division Productivity products and services, including Office, Exchange, SharePoint, Lync, Project, Visio, and Microsofts speech technology investments. Online Services Division Microsofts search, portal, advertising and personal communications services, including online information offerings such as Bing and the MSN portals and channels. Skype A division of Microsoft, transforming communications for computers, mobile devices and the connected living room.

Server and Tools Business Microsoft infrastructure software, developer tools and cloud platform, including products such as Windows Server, SQL Server, Visual Studio, System Center and the Windows Azure Platform. Windows & Windows Live Division All Windows businesses, including Windows, Windows Live and Internet Explorer. Windows Phone Division Microsoft software and services for Windows Phones worldwide.

Financial Status
The total assets of Microsoft stood at $107.42 billion The Q2 2011 has been a pretty phenomenal span which resulted in some of the Biggest growth of the most popular tech and web giants including Apple and Google. Microsoft managed to gather a lot of revenue from their Xbox 360 and Xbox Live.

The PC market shrank by 1 percent last year and this hit Microsoft hard. Suffered a loss with Windows 7 and Windows Live Other products were there to make up for the loss leading them to a total gain of 12 percent than last fiscal year's earning at 5.87 billon for this quarter.

Future Plans
Uncovering New Ways the Human Immune System Fights HIV. Single Ecosystem Xbox 720

We've really achieved the ideal of what I wanted Microsoft to become.