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Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) (SEHK: 4338) is an American multinational computer technology corporation. It evelops, 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 productivity software. These products have prominent positions in their respective markets, with market share estimates as high as 90% or more for Microsoft Windows as of 2006 and for Microsoft Office as of 2003. One of Bill Gates' key visions for the company is "to get a workstation running our software onto every desk and eventually in every home".

Trivia about microsoft

  • If you'd invested $84 for 4 shares of this company at its March 13, 1986 IPO, you'd have 1,152 shares & $30,124.80 as of Jan. 1, 2006
  • This company first introduced its MSN Network as part of Windows 95
  • In 2000 Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson ruled that this computer company should be split in two
  • Seattleites Bill Gates & Paul Allen started this company in Albuquerque, then moved home to Washington
  • In business, Cisco edged this rival led by the world's richest man to become the world's most valuable company
  • This Bill Gates' company introduced its Internet Explorer web browser to compete with Netscape
  • On Oct. 20, 1997 the Justice Dept. filed a petition accusing this high-tech company of anticompetitive acts
  • This company had its genesis when 2 Seattle boys read an article about the Altair 8800
  • In 1995 NBC & this giant software company announced plans for an all-news television channel
  • In 1975 Paul Allen & William Gates III founded this company in Albuquerque
  • The many versions of Windows are the flagship products of this company
  • You could "See what's new in Windows 7" & "Watch the demos" at this company's site
  • This Redmond, Washington mega-corporation clicked in at 48, one spot ahead of Intel
  • In 1997 Paul Allen, who made billions as co-founder of this software giant, bought the Seattle Seahawks for $200 million
  • Here at Jeopa-Conglomarex, we try to avoid being fined $600 million by the E.U., like this tech company in Wash. was in '04
  • Steve Ballmer has big geek shoes to fill for this Washington State software company
  • The Times exposed memos from this company's execs who had trouble upgrading to its Vista operating system
  • 29-year-old Melinda French, a manager at this company, married its chairman January 1, 1994
  • Researchers found 2/3 of this company's employees use Google instead of its own MSN Search site
  • Everyone knows Mr. Lee made $100 million working for this Bill Gates co. & now teaches for $1 a year
  • Its co-founder said this company began in "1974, when my friend...& I saw an article in 'Popular Electronics"'
  • For some strange reason, this company's Live.com site has system requirements that don't include Macs or Firefox
  • If a stock symbol has more than 3 letters, like MSFT, this company, it's probably on the NASDAQ, not the NYSE
  • In July 2004 this tech company said it would give back $75 billion to its shareholders
  • The release of adverse findings of fact in the case U.S. v. this company helped spur the dot-com bust
  • Lawyer Lawrence Lessig started blogging after being thrown off the anti-trust case against this software giant
  • Utah's A.G. got letters to drop an antitrust case against this software company, but the mail was from dead people
  • In 2004 this company unleashed its legal aces on 17-year-old Mike Rowe in a phonetic dispute over a domain name
  • A tech company:Internet Explorer, Vista
  • This company went after the music player market "Zune" after turning "360" into gaming

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