Microsoft Company
Incorporation year : 1975
Headquarter : Washington, US
Chairman : John Thompson
Present Head (CEO) : Satya Nadella
Chief Financial Officer : Amy Hood
Company Introduction
Microsoft is an American multinational technology company. It develops, manufactures, licenses, supports and
sells computer software, consumer electronics and personal computers and services. Its best known software
products are the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems, Microsoft Office office suite, and Internet
Explorer and Edge web browsers.
Microsoft in India: Microsoft Corporation India is one of the fastest growing subsidiaries of Microsoft
Corporation, the worldwide leader in software, services, and solutions. The Microsoft India story began in 1990.
Microsoft runs six major business units representing entire product cycle to serve customers from consumers to
corporations, gamers to governments.
i) Microsoft Research India (MSR India)
ii) Microsoft India (R&D) Private Limited
iii) Microsoft IT India
iv) Microsoft Services Global Delivery
v) Microsoft Corporation India Pvt. Ltd. (MCIPL)
vi) Microsoft India Global Technical Support Center (IGTSC)
Company History
Microsoft was founded by Paul Allen and Bill Gates on April 4, 1975 with Gates as the CEO. Microsoft entered
the OS business in 1980 with its own version of Unix, called Xenix. However, it was MS-DOS that solidified the
company’s dominance. It rose to dominate the personal computer operating system market with MS-DOS in the
mid-1980s, followed by Microsoft Windows. Since the 1990s, it has increasingly diversified from the operating
system market and has made a number of corporate acquisitions.
Philosophy
Vision: To help individuals and businesses realize their full potential.
Mission: To empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more.
Microsoft’s vision statement shows the company’s target market and product value. Microsoft’s mission
statement presents the global market scope of the business and a general idea about the benefit of the
business to its customers. However, such information is still not clearly defined to represent the business.
Portfolio of Company; Products and Services it offers
ents Products
Software and Services Windows, Office, Free downloads and security, Internet explorer, Microsoft
edge and MSN.
Devices and Xbox All Windows PC and tablets, PC accessories, Xbox and games.
For Business Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure, MS Dynamic 365, Windows for business,
Office for business, Skype for business, Enterprise solutions and Volume
licensing.
For Developers and IT Pros Microsoft Azure, MSDN, TechNet and Visual studio.
For Students and Educators Office for students, Onenote in classroom and Microsoft in education.
Business in News
♦ Microsoft ranked 21st on Fortune 500 Companies list in 2020.
♦ Microsoft ranked 13th on Forbes World's Largest Public Corporations List 2020.
♦ Microsoft ranked 2nd on Forbes World's Best Employers List 2019.
♦ Microsoft Taiwan and Asia’s leading media technology company, KKBOX Group, jointly announced the
launch of a global strategic partnership that will migrate the group’s subsidiary KKBOX’s music
streaming services to the Microsoft Azure cloud platform.
https://news.microsoft.com/2019/12/20/microsoft-and-kkbox-group-launch-global-strategic-partnership/
♦ KPMG expects to invest US$5 billion in digital strategy and expand Microsoft alliance to accelerate
professional services transformation.
https://news.microsoft.com/2019/12/05/kpmg-expects-to-invest-us5-billion-in-digital-strategy-and-
expand-microsoft-alliance-to-accelerate-professional-services-transformation/
For more information, you may visit company website: www.microsoft.com