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Windows boss on building his first laptop...a Windows 7 laptop in conjunction with Acer. Steven Sinofsky, surprised the PDC crowd on Wednesday, announcing that paid attendees would get a free notebook that Microsoft helped design. (Credit: Ina Fried/CNET) That laptop made its... In this article: Ina Fried, Microsoft, CNET, California Energy Commission, MySpace, Los Angeles, and Washington |
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Sydney Morning Herald - Business | 4 days ago
Microsoft co-founder diagnosed with cancer
Microsoft co-founder diagnosed with cancer Billionaire Paul Allen, who founded US software giant Microsoft with Bill Gates in 1975, has been diagnosed with cancer, technology blogs have reported. Allen, 56, one of the wealthiest men in the...
In this article: Paul Allen, Cancer, Vulcan Inc., Seattle Sounders, B-cell lymphoma, Major League Soccer, Charter Communications, and CNET News
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CNET News.com | 2 days ago
Livescribe pen gets an app store
...several times, changed genders once, and covered both of the Pirates of Silicon Valley. These days, most of her attention is focused on Microsoft. E-mail Ina. During her years at CNET News, Ina Fried has changed beats several times,...
In this article: Ina Fried, CNET News, Revenue, and Best Buy
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FAQ: Buying the right Windows 7 upgrade
...attention is focused on Microsoft. E-mail Ina. CNET gets a tour of Microsoft's 700,000-square-foot Chicago facility--a data center the company says just might be the biggest on the planet. About Beyond Binary During her years at CNET...
In this article: Ina Fried, CNET News, Windows Vista, XML, Boot Camp, Parallels, Vmware, Twitter, and Apple
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T-Mobile resumes Sidekick sales
...with an extra emphasis on that which emanates from Redmond, Wash. Microsoft's chief software architect is kicking off Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference. Click here for CNET News' live coverage of the Day 1 keynote. Beyond...
In this article: T-Mobile, Ina Fried, T-Mobile USA, CNET News, Chrome OS, Android, Danger, Google, and Eric Schmidt
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Microsoft PDC: Lots on Azure, some IE 9 tidbits
...Beyond Binary by Ina Fried) In an interview with CNET, Microsoft's software chief talks about Windows Azure, lessons learned from the Sidekick fiasco, and a future in which devices record everything imaginable. Posted in Beyond Binary by...
In this article: Ina Fried, Los Angeles, Internet Explorer 9, CNET, and Nintendo
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Description from Wikipedia:
Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT, ) is a multinational computer technology corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of software products for computing devices. Headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA, its most profitable products are the Microsoft Windows operating system and the Microsoft Office suite of productivity software.
The company was founded in 1975, to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800. Microsoft rose to dominate the home computer operating system market with MS-DOS in the mid-1980s, followed by the Windows line of operating systems. Many of its products have achieved near-ubiquity in the desktop computer market. One commentator notes that Microsoft's original mission was "a computer on every desk and in every home, running Microsoft software." Microsoft possesses footholds in other markets, with assets such as the MSNBC cable television network, the MSN Internet portal, and the Microsoft Encarta multimedia encyclopedia. The company also markets both computer hardware products such as the Microsoft mouse as well as home entertainment products such as the Xbox, Xbox 360, Zune and MSN TV. The company's initial public stock offering (IPO) was in 1986; the ensuing rise of the company's stock price has made four billionaires and an estimated 12,000 millionaires from Microsoft employees.*
- Name:
- Microsoft Corporation
- Type:
- NASDAQ: MSFT
- Headquarters:
- Redmond, Washington
- Location:
- Redmond, Washington, United States
- Region:
- Worldwide
- Founder:
- Founded:
- Albuquerque, New Mexico
- Stock Symbol (NASDAQ):
- MSFT
- Industry:
- Consumer Electronics
- Computer software
- CEO:
- Steve Ballmer
- Products:
- Revenue:
- $60.420 billion (2008)
- Operating Income:
- $22.492 billion (2008)
- Net Income:
- $17.681 billion (2008)
- Assets:
- US$ 77.888 billion )
- Equity:
- US$ 39.558 billion
- No. of Employees:
- 89,809 in 105 countries (2008)
- Motto:
- Your potential. Our passion.
- Market Cap:
- US$ 169.72 billion
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