Microsoft, a US multinational technology company, is also the world PC (PersonalComputer, personal computer) software development leader, by Bill Gates and Paul Allen founded in 1975, the company headquarters in Washington, Redmond, near Seattle). To research and development, manufacturing, licensing and provide a wide range of computer software services business.
The most famous and best-selling products for the Microsoft Windows operating system and Microsoft Office series of software, is currently the world's largest computer software provider.
Microsoft ranked 110 in the list of Fortune 500 companies in 2013 and 104th in 2014.
In January 2015, at the 66th Emmy, the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences awarded the "TV Enhancement Equipment Award" for Microsoft. July 9, 2015, Microsoft announced a fundamental restructuring of the mobile phone business, while said it would cut to more than 7800 jobs. October 2015 According to CNBC, Microsoft will withdraw 1,000 jobs in a new round of layoffs. The new layoffs were added on the basis of the previously announced layoffs.
Microsoft on January 12, 2016 to terminate the technical support for IE8, 9, 10.
June 18, 2016, "2016 BrandZ the world's most valuable brand hundred list" announced that Microsoft ranked third. June 13, Microsoft will be 196 US dollars per share, a total of 26.2 billion US dollars of full cash acquisition, including LinkedIn company's total equity and net cash. October, Microsoft ranked 2016 in the world's top 100 most valuable brand No. 4.
December 8, 2016, Microsoft announced that it has officially completed the acquisition of LinkedIn transactions.
In February 2017, Brand Finance released the 2017 list of the world's top 500 brands, Microsoft ranked fifth.
"Microsoft" is composed of "Microcomputer" and "software". Among them, "micro" is the source of microcomputer "micro-computer", and "soft" is the software "software" abbreviation, is named by Bill Gates.
Microsoft on December 30, 1999 set a 666 billion US dollars in the history of the highest listed companies in the history of listed companies, if the inflation, equivalent to 2012, 913 billion US dollars. As a result of the US Congress in 1999 anti-monopoly control survey, Microsoft stock prices extremely frustrated, or forecast to break through 850 billion US dollars.
Before and after 1999 Microsoft did not enter the Chinese market, only part of the foreign market. Many market space are not excavated, scholars believe that if Microsoft occupied the Chinese market, profits will be doubled or even several times, the market value of stability exceeded 1 trillion US dollars, if not the United States Department of Justice and Congress in 1995 after the anti-monopoly, Microsoft 1999 market value $ 1.5 trillion, or even $ 200 billion without problems.
As of 2013, Microsoft almost occupied the market every space, the market accounted for the extreme, almost to the bottleneck. So, Microsoft's contribution can not be measured by the value of money.