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ACCESSION NUMBER: 0000891020-97-000372
CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: S-3
PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 3
FILED AS OF DATE: 19970319
SROS: NASD
FILER:
COMPANY DATA:
COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: MICROSOFT CORP
CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0000789019
STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: SERVICES-PREPACKAGED
SOFTWARE [7372]
IRS NUMBER: 911144442
STATE OF INCORPORATION: WA
FISCAL YEAR END: 0630
FILING VALUES:
FORM TYPE: S-3
SEC ACT: 1933 Act
SEC FILE NUMBER: 333-23621
FILM NUMBER: 97559547
BUSINESS ADDRESS:
STREET 1: ONE MICROSOFT WAY #BLDG 8
STREET 2: NORTH OFFICE 2211
CITY: REDMOND
STATE: WA
ZIP: 98052
BUSINESS PHONE: 2068828080
MAIL ADDRESS:
STREET 1: ONE MICROSOFT WAY - BLDG 8
STREET 2: NORTH OFFICE 2211
CITY: REDMOND
STATE: WA
ZIP: 98052-6399
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FORM S-3
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UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
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REGISTRATION STATEMENT
ON FORM S-3
Under
THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
COMMISSION FILE NO. 0-14278
MICROSOFT CORPORATION
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(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
WASHINGTON 91-1144442
(State or other jurisdiction (IRS Employer
of incorporation or organization) Identification No.)
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Robert A. Eshelman
Associate General Counsel
One Microsoft Way
Redmond, Washington 98052-6399
(206) 882-8080
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(Name, address, including zip code, and telephone number,
including area code, of agent for service)
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2
Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale to the public: At
such time or times after the effective date of this Registration Statement as
the Selling Shareholder shall determine.
If the only securities being registered on this form are being offered
pursuant to dividend or interest reinvestment plans, please check the following
box:
[ ]
[X]
Title of each
class
Proposed
maximum
Proposed
maximum
of securities to
be Amount
to be
offering price
per aggregate
offering
Amount of
registered
registered*
share*
price*
registration
fee**
- ---------------
---- --------
---- --------
---------- ----
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----------------
--
Common
Shares
165,729 shares
$99.56
$16,499,979.24
$5,000
par value
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$.000025
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
PAGE
AVAILABLE
INFORMATION . . . .
..................
........... 2
INCORPORATION
OF CERTAIN
INFORMATION BY
REFERENCE . . . . . .
............. 2
THE COMPANY . . .
..................
.................
3
SELLING
SHAREHOLDER . . .
..................
............. 3
LEGAL MATTERS .
..................
..................
3
EXPERTS . . . . . . . . .
..................
............. 4
DISCLOSURE OF
COMMISSION
POSITION ON
INDEMNIFICATION
FOR SECURITIES
ACT LIABILITIES . .
4
INFORMATION
NOT REQUIRED IN
PROSPECTUS . . . . .
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. I-2
SIGNATURES . . . . .
..................
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INDEX TO
EXHIBITS . . . . . . . .
..................
. . . . . . . . . II-4
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PROSPECTUS
MICROSOFT CORPORATION
165,729 Common Shares
Par Value of $.000025 Per Share
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The Common Shares are traded on the Nasdaq Stock Market under the
symbol MSFT. The average of the high and low prices of the Common Shares as
reported on the Nasdaq Stock Market on March 14, 1996 was $99.56 per Common
Share.
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AVAILABLE INFORMATION
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1. Microsoft's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended June
30, 1996.
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THE COMPANY
SELLING SHAREHOLDER
Number of
Common
Microsoft
Common
Number of
Common
Shares
Owned
After
Name
of
Shares
Owned Prior
Shares
Offered
the Offering
Selling
Shareholders
(1) to
Offering(2)
Hereby
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------------
-----------
------- -----
----------- -
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---
Terry
Myerson
200
165,729
165,929
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- -
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Totals
200
165,729
165,929
(1) The Selling Shareholder did not hold any office with Microsoft
during the last three years.
(2) All amounts are less than 1% of the issued and outstanding
shares of common stock of Microsoft.
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LEGAL MATTERS
The validity of the Common Shares offered hereby will be passed upon
for Microsoft by Preston Gates & Ellis LLP, 5000 Columbia Center, 701 Fifth
Avenue, Seattle, Washington 98104. As of the date hereof, attorneys
in Preston Gates & Ellis LLP who have worked on substantive matters for
Microsoft own less than 250,000 Common Shares.
EXPERTS
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PART II
Registration Fee--
Securities and Exchange Commission $5,000
Miscellaneous $1,000
Total $9,500
(1) To file, during any period in which offers or sales are being
made, a post-effective amendment to this registration statement:
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provided, however, that paragraphs (1)(i) and (1)(ii) do not apply if the
information required to be included in a post-effective amendment by those
paragraphs is contained in periodic reports filed by Microsoft pursuant to
Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended
(the "Exchange Act") that are incorporated by reference in this Registration
Statement.
(2) That, for the purpose of determining any liability under the
Securities Act of 1933, each such post-effective amendment shall be deemed to
be a new registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and
the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial
bona fide offering thereof.
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SIGNATURES
MICROSOFT CORPORATION
\s\ William H. Gates III
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William H. Gates III
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
POWER OF ATTORNEY
KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose signature
appears below constitutes and appoints William H. Gates III, his
attorney-in-fact, for him in any and all capacities, to sign any amendments to
this Registration Statement, and to file the same, with exhibits thereto, and
other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange
Commission, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorney-in-fact, or
his substitute, may do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.
Dated
-----
\s\ Michael
W. Brown
Vice
President,
Finance;
Chief
March
13, 1997
- ----------
----------
Financial
Officer
(Principal
Michael
W. Brown
Financial
and
Accounting
Officer)
\s\ William
H. Gates
III
Chairman,
Chief
Executive
Officer,
March 13,
1997
- ----------
------------
--
Director
(Principal
Executive
William H.
Gates III
Officer)
\s\ Paul G.
Allen
Director
March 13,
1997
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-------
Paul G.
Allen
\s\ Richard
A.
Hackborn
Director
March 13,
1997
- ----------
------------
-
Richard A.
Hackborn
\s\ David
F.
Marquardt
Director
March 13,
1997
- ----------
------------
David F.
Marquardt
Director
March __,
1997
- ----------
------------
----
Robert D.
O'Brien
Director
March __,
1997
- ----------
------------
----
William G.
Reed, Jr.
\s\ Jon A.
Shirley
Director
March 14,
1997
- ----------
--------
Jon A.
Shirley
\s\ Jill E.
Barad
Director
March 13,
1997
- ----------
-------
Jill E.
Barad
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INDEX TO EXHIBITS
Exhibit No.
Description
Page or
Footnote
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3.1
Restated
Articles of
Incorporation
See footnote
(1)
3.2
Bylaws
See
footnote(1)
5
Opinion of
Counsel re:
legality
See
attached.
13
1996 Annual
Report to
Shareholders
See footnote
(1)
23.1
Consent of
Deloitte &
Touche LLP
See
attached.
as
Independent
Accountants
23.2
Consent of
Preston
Gates & Ellis
LLP
See
footnote(2)
24
Power of
Attorney
See page
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(1) Incorporated by reference to Microsoft's Form 10-K for the fiscal year
ended June 30, 1996.
(2) Contained within Exhibit 5.
EX-5
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OPINION OF COUNSEL RE: LEGALITY
Exhibit 5
OPINION OF PRESTON GATES & ELLIS LLP
Microsoft Corporation
One Microsoft Way
Redmond, WA 98052
Gentleman:
The Common Shares being registered are legally issued, fully paid, and
nonassessable.
By
Richard B. Dodd
EX-23.1
3
CONCENT OF D & T AS INDEPENDENT ACCOUNTANTS
1
Exhibit 23.1