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Windows 7 Sales Beat Mac OS X Market Share...numbers with the same dates for the Mac. When Windows 7's Nov. 15-21 average was matched against Mac OS X, however, for an apples-to-apples comparison, Microsoft's 4.15% lagged behind Apple's 5%. But Vizzaccaro was confident that Windows 7... In this article: Mac OS X, Microsoft, Steve Ballmer, Apple, Revenue, and E mail |
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Computer World | November 12, 2009
Microsoft rebukes exec for Mac inspiration comment
...his comments "uninformed" and "inaccurate." In an interview published Tuesday, Simon Aldous, partner group manager at Microsoft, acknowledged that the company had used Mac OS X as its muse. "One of the things that people say an awful lot...
In this article: Mac OS X 10.6, NPD Group, AppleInsider, and Sybase
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CNET News.com | November 18, 2009
With IE 9, Microsoft fights back in browser wars
...remains the Net's dominant browser. But perversely, it became something of a technology underdog after Microsoft vanquished Netscape in the browser wars of the 1990s and scaled back its browser effort. That left an opportunity for rivals...
In this article: JavaScript, Firefox, HTML, Internet Explorer, Safari, and Google
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AppleInsider | November 11, 2009
Microsoft official admits Windows 7 design inspired by Mac OS X
...design inspired by Mac OS X When it looked to redesign its dominant operating system after the struggles of Windows Vista, Microsoft reportedly turned to Apple's Mac OS X for the "look and feel" of Windows 7. Simon Aldous, partner group...
In this article: Mac OS X, Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, Walt Mossberg, Mac OS, Steroid, and Windows Vista
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San Jose Mercury News | November 10, 2009
Tech Ticker: Cisco, Microsoft, Nokia
...for Microsoft's Visual Studio Team Foundation Server. The Teamprise technology enables software development on multiple operating systems, including Unix, Linux and Mac OS X, Microsoft Advertisement said. The programs will be integrated...
In this article: Nokia, Cisco Systems, Visual Studio, Unix, Linux, A+, Visual Studio Team Foundation Server, and Standard & Poor's
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the INQUIRER | 4 days ago
Installing Windows 7 on your Intel Mac
...on boxes with Intel inside. As a secondary consequence of moving to Intel hardware, every modern Apple computer is capable of running Microsoft's Windows operating systems in a variety of flavours. Boot Camp is an application that...
In this article: Apple, Mac OSX, Boot Camp, Windows XP, Steve Jobs, Google Chrome, Bite the bullet, and Internet Explorer
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CNN | November 19, 2009
With Internet Explorer 9, Microsoft fights back
...foundation for applications. Microsoft has been pouring resources back into the IE effort, though, and at its Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles, some fruits of that labor were on display. In particular, Windows unit...
In this article: Internet Explorer, JavaScript, Firefox, Safari, CNET, HTML, and E mail
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PC World: Latest Technology News | November 12, 2009
Microsoft Stole Mac OS Aesthetics? So What!
...Mac platform, for instance." Sounds like a pretty dumb slip of the tongue. Microsoft quickly bashed Aldous' comments in a blog post written by Brandon LeBlanc: "An inaccurate quote has been floating around the Internet today about the...
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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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