About Microsoft
Microsoft Corporation (MSFT) (4338), or often just MS, is an American multinational computer technology corporation with 79,000 employees in 102 countries and global annual revenue of US $51.12 billion as of 2007.
Read MoreFounded 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. The company released an initial public offering (IPO) in the stock market, which, due to the ensuing rise of the stock price, has made four billionaires and an estimated 12,000 millionaires from Microsoft employees. Throughout its history the company has been the target of criticism for various reasons, including monopolistic business practices—both the U.S. Justice Department and the European Commission, among others, brought Microsoft to court for antitrust violations and software bundling.
Microsoft has footholds in other markets besides operating systems and office suites, 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 and home entertainment products such as the Xbox, Xbox 360, Zune and MSN TV.
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Leadership & Employee Engagement
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Where Have All The Good Mentors Gone?
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...oined a few other start-up mavens at a recent gathering last week organized by Scott Kirsner at the Microsoft NERD Center in Kendall Square. One of the topics we discussed was: where have all the good mentors ... (Read Full Article)
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...orate world. With the DoJ anti-trust trial (often seen as one of its biggest mistakes) of the '90s, Microsoft’s biggest cost was likely the degradation of its image. One of the primary reasons Intel recently s... (Read Full Article)
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Jeff Immelt was a sales guy « Sasha Dichter's Blog
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...ial is plainly possible: witness the achievements of the vendors of high-tech itself. Intel, Apple, Microsoft and the above-mentioned Dell have achieved speeds of effective response that traditional management... (Read Full Article)
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Neil Seeman: The myth of the "natural" CEO
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