Microsoft

corporación tecnológica multinacional estadounidense

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Microsoft is an American technology company founded in 1975 that became dominant through Windows software and has since expanded into cloud computing, artificial intelligence, gaming, and other technology areas. It is currently the world's largest software company by revenue and one of the most valuable companies globally, making it a major player in the technology industry.

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Company.name: Microsoft Corporation
Company.logo: upright=1.15|class=logo-nobg|frameless|alt=Microsoft logo, depicting a square divided into four sub-squares, colored red-orange, green, yellow and blue (clockwise), with the company name appearing to its right
Company.logo_caption: Logo used since 2012
Company.image: Aerial Microsoft West Campus August 2009.jpg
Company.image_upright: 1.15
Company.image_caption: Aerial view of the Microsoft campus in Redmond
Company.type: Public
Company.industry: Information technology
Company.predecessor: Traf-O-Data
Company.founded: in
Company.hq_location: Microsoft Campus
Company.hq_location_country: U.S.
Company.area_served: Worldwide
Company.revenue: billion
Company.revenue_year: 2025
Company.operating_income: billion
Company.income_year: 2025
Company.net_income: billion

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Type: Company, Funder
Founded: 1975
Location: Redmond, United States
Also known as: Microsoft Corporation
Status: Active

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To enable people and businesses throughout the world to realize their full potential. Microsoft is founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen; they sell BASIC, the first PC computer language program to MITS Computer, Microsoft's first customer. Microsoft, Inc. is incorporated; IBM uses Microsoft's 16-bit operating system for its first personal computer. Paul Allen resigns as executive vice-president but remains on the board; Jon Shirley is made president of Microsoft (he later becomes CEO); Microsoft introduces the Microsoft Mouse and Word for MS-DOS 1.00. Bill Gates is awarded the National Medal of Technology for Technological Achievement. The U.S. Department of Justice files two antitrust cases against Microsoft, alleging the company had violated the Sherman Act. With annual revenues of more than $32 billion, Microsoft Corporation is more than the largest software company in the world: it is a cultural phenomenon. The company's core business is based on developing, manufacturing, and licensing software products, including operating systems, server applications, business and consumer applications, and software development tools, as well as Internet software, technologies, and services. Led by Bill Gates, the world's wealthiest individual and most famous businessman, Microsoft has succeeded in placing at least one of its products on virtually every personal computer in the world, setting industry standards and defining markets in the process. Bill Gates was born in Seattle in 1955, the second of three children in a well-to-do family. His father, William H. Gates II, was a lawyer, while his mother, Mary Gates, was a teacher, a regent of the University of Washington, and member of several corporate boards. Gates was first exposed to computers at school in the late 1960s with his friend Paul Allen, the son of two Seattle librarians. By the time Gates was 14, the two friends were writing and testing computer programs for fun and profit. In 1972 they established their first company, Traf-O-Data, which sold a rudimentary computer that recorded and analyzed traffic data. Allen went on to study computer science at the University of Washington and then dropped out to work at Honeywell, while Gates enrolled at Harvard. Inspired in 1975 by an issue of Popular Electronics that showed the new Altair microcomputer kit just released by MITS Computer, Gates and Allen wrote a version of BASIC for the machine. Later that year Gates left college to work full time developing programming languages for the Altair, and he and Allen relocated to Albuquerque, New Mexico, to be near MITS Computer, where Allen took a position as director of software development. Gates and Allen named their partnership Micro-soft. Their revenues for 1975 totaled $16,000. That same year Microsoft released its second programming language, Microsoft FORTRAN, which was followed in 1978 by a version of COBOL. Both were written for the CP/M operating system, one of many available in the rapidly expanding but still unstandardized microcomputer market. As CP/M was adopted by computer manufacturers including Sirius, Zenith, and Sharp, Microsoft became the leading distributor for microcomputer languages. By the end of 1978 Microsoft had 13 employees, a sales subsidiary in Japan, and $1 million in revenues. The following year Gates and Allen moved the company to Bellevue, Washington. The year 1980 also saw the arrival of Steve Ballmer, a close friend of Gates from Harvard, who was hired to organize the non-technical side of the business. Ballmer later recalled the company's stormy beginnings under Gates's leadership: "Our first major row came when I insisted it was time to hire 17 people. He claimed I was trying to bankrupt him." Conservative in his spending, Gates dictated that the company must always have enough money in the bank to operate for a year with no revenues. Nearly 20 years later that policy still stood--in 1999 Microsoft had cash reserves of more than $13 billion

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Microsoft Corporation (pronunciado /maɪˌkroʊˈsɔft/) es una empresa tecnológica multinacional estadounidense que produce software de computadora, productos electrónicos de consumo, computadoras personales y servicios relacionados con sede en el campus de Microsoft Redmond ubicado en Redmond, Washington, Estados Unidos. «Microsoft» es un acrónimo de microordenador y software. La empresa desarrolla, fabrica, licencia y da soporte a ordenadores personales, servidores, dispositivos electrónicos y servicios. Sus productos más conocidos son el sistema operativo Microsoft Windows, el paquete Microsoft Office, los navegadores de Internet, Internet Explorer y Microsoft Edge. Sus productos estrella son las consolas de videojuegos Xbox y la línea de dispositivos de pantalla táctil Microsoft Surface en hardware. En 2016, era la mayor empresa de software del mundo por ingresos y una de las más valiosas del mercado global. Paul Allen y Bill Gates la fundaron el 4 de abril de 1975 para desarrollar y comercializar intérpretes de BASIC para el Altair 8800, un microordenador diseñado en 1974 y basado en el procesador Intel 8080. A mediados de la década de 1980, dominó el mercado de los sistemas operativos para computadoras personales con MS-DOS, que continuó con Microsoft Windows. La salida a bolsa de 1986 y la posterior subida del precio de las acciones crearon tres multimillonarios y unos 12.000 millonarios entre los empleados de Microsoft. Desde la década de 1990, se ha diversificado cada vez más fuera del mercado de los sistemas operativos. Ha realizado una serie de adquisiciones corporativas, siendo la mayor la compra de LinkedIn por 26.200 millones de dólares en diciembre de 2016, seguida de la compra de Skype Technologies por 8500 millones de dólares en mayo de 2011. Microsoft es un actor dominante en el mercado de los sistemas operativos para ordenadores compatibles con IBM y en el de las suites ofimáticas. Sin embargo, ha perdido la mayor parte del mercado de sistemas operativos ante la llegada de Android en 2008. La empresa también produce una amplia gama de otros productos de software para ordenadores de sobremesa y servidores, como la búsqueda en Internet (con Bing), el mercado de servicios digitales (a través de MSN), la realidad mixta (HoloLens), la computación en la nube (Azure) y el desarrollo de software (Visual Studio).. Steve Ballmer sustituyó a Bill Gates como consejero delegado el 13 de enero del año 2000 y desarrolló una estrategia centrada en los dispositivos y los servicios. Comenzó su gestión con la adquisición de Peach Networks anunciada el 29 de febrero del 2000 para expandir los servicios de cable digital de Microsoft TV. También entró por primera vez en el mercado de la producción de computadoras personales en junio de 2012 con el lanzamiento de la línea de tabletas Microsoft Surface; y la posterior configuración de Microsoft Mobile mediante la adquisición de la división de dispositivos y servicios de Nokia. Desde que Satya Nadella se convirtió en consejero delegado en 2014, la compañía ha reducido su énfasis en el hardware y se ha centrado en la computación en la nube y la inteligencia artificial, un movimiento que ha impulsado las acciones de la compañía a su valor más alto desde diciembre de 1999. En 2018, Microsoft superó a Apple Inc. como la empresa que cotiza en bolsa más valiosa del mundo después de haber sido destronada por el gigante tecnológico en 2010. En abril de 2019, Microsoft se convirtió en la tercera empresa pública estadounidense valorada en más de un billón de dólares después de que Apple y Amazon alcanzaran el billón de dólares de capitalización bursátil en 2018. En la actualidad, Microsoft tiene presencia en los siguientes países: Irlanda, Alemania, Bélgica, Canadá, Dinamarca, Estados Unidos, Finlandia, Francia, Italia, México, Austria, Japón, Países Bajos, Reino Unido, Suecia, España, y Polonia. ofreciendo una gran variedad de sus productos y brindando sus servicios. Microsoft también está presente en otros países, donde realiza funciones de soporte como: Australia, Argentina, Brasil, Nueva Zelanda, y República de la India..

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