Anderson David e Mateus - Microsoft
- 3. Funded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen in 1975
- 4. Microsoft =originated from the English words microcomputer and software
- 5. Inted at first to develop software in BASIC language for the Altair 8800 computer from IBM
- 6. º In 1979 , IBM seeks an operating system for your new computer and hires Microsoft for the service.
- 7. They had a incomplete operating system . The solution was to buy the Q -DOS from Seattle Computer Products for $ 50,000 to improve it.
- 8. Not managed to overshadow the attention received by the Apple Lisa
- 9. º managed to copy the Lisa graphical interface and selling a similar version in Japan.
- 10. Windows only reaches the market in 1985 under the name Windows 1.0
- 11. Microsoft was conquering the market more and more. It has also launched the Windows versions: 3.0, 3.1, 95 , 98, Me ( Millennium Edition ), XP and Vista, Seven and the last : Windows 10 .
- 12. In November 2005 it launched the Xbox, it reached U$ 23 billion profit in the first quarter 2014
- 13. ºOn 08/27/13 buying Finland's Nokia for about 7.2 billion reais.
- 14. Microsoft is involved in several battles in court. Most of it concerns the monopoly practices
- 15. After a small drop in company revenue in 2009 , in 2010 Microsoft again showed cescimento of their gains , following ongoing since 2001
- 16. Bill Gates left Harvard University to found the then Microsoft.
- 17. Between the first and the fifth year of life of the company, Microsfot increased its profit of $ 16,000 to a million dollars .
- 18. Bill Gates became a millionaire at age 31 .
- 19. Temporary employees receive Microsoft e-mail address with a hyphen before the "at" symbol .
- 20. Microsoft's newest employee is 18 years old ; the oldest, 74. In the United States , the average age in the company is 36 years , with 51 % of employees between 30 and 39. Only two are under 20 .
- 21. There are over 2000 bloggers among company employees.
- 22. More than 3 million internal emails are exchanged daily
- 23. More than 3 million internal emails are exchanged daily
- 24. Approximately 42 million soft drink cans were consumed by Microsoft employees since 1978, when the company inaugurated the tradition of offering them for free.
- 25. The current Microsoft value is US $ 359.900 billion