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FACULTY OF TELECOMMUNICATION AND INFORMATION

ENGINEERING

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT

Table of Contents
MICROSOFT.............................................................................................................................1
Microsoft Corporation.............................................................................................................1
HISTORY:.................................................................................................................................1
HEADQUARTERS:.....................................................................................................................1
LIST OF MICROSOFT SOFTWARE:.............................................................................................2
 DEVELOPMENT SOFTWARE.........................................................................................................2
 INTERNET....................................................................................................................................3
 OFFICE........................................................................................................................................3
 OPERATING SYSTEMS.................................................................................................................4
 VIDEO GAMES.............................................................................................................................4
 PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES AND COMPILERS..........................................................................4
 OTHER PRODUCTS......................................................................................................................5
WHO WOULD WIN IN A FIGHT: MICROSOFT OFFICE OR GOOGLE DOCS?............................................6
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MICROSOFT

Microsoft Corporation (commonly referred to

as Microsoft) is an American multinational
technology company headquartered in Redmond,
Washington, that 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. Its flagship hardware products are the Xbox game consoles
and the Microsoft Surface tablet lineup. It is the world's largest software maker by revenue, and
one of the world's most valuable companies.

HISTORY:

M icrosoft was founded by Paul Allen and Bill Gates on April 4, 1975, to develop and
sell BASIC interpreters for Altair 8800. It rose to dominate the personal computer
operating system market with MS-DOS in the mid-1980s, followed by Microsoft
Windows. The company's 1986 initial public offering, and subsequent rise in its share price,
created three billionaires and an estimated 12,000 millionaires among Microsoft employees.
Since the 1990s, it has increasingly diversified from the operating system market and has made a
number of corporate acquisitions. In May 2011, Microsoft acquired Skype Technologies for $8.5
billion in its largest acquisition to date.

As of 2015, Microsoft is market dominant in both the IBM PC operating system (while it lost the
majority of the overall operating system market to Android) and office software suite markets
(the latter with Microsoft Office).

HEADQUARTERS:

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The corporate headquarters, informally known as the Microsoft Redmond Campus, is located at
One Microsoft Way in Redmond, Washington. Microsoft initially moved onto the grounds of the
campus on February 26, 1986, weeks before the company went public on March 13. The
headquarters has since experienced multiple expansions since its establishment.

It is estimated to encompass over 8 million ft2 (750,000 m2) of office space and 30,000-40,000
employees. Additional offices are located in Bellevue and Issaquah (90,000 employees world-
wide).

LOGO:
Microsoft adopted the so-called “Pac-Man Logo", designed by Scott Baker, in 1987.On August
23, 2012, Microsoft unveiled a new corporate logo at the opening of its 23rd Microsoft store in
Boston indicating the company's shift of focus from the classic style to the tile-centric modern
interface which it uses/will use on the Windows Phone platform, Xbox 360, Windows 8 and the
upcoming Office Suites. The new logo also includes four squares with the colors of the then-
current Windows logo which have been used to represent Microsoft's four major products:
Windows (blue), Office (red), Xbox (green), and Bing (yellow). The logo resembles the opening
of one of the commercials for Windows 95.

1985-1987 1987-2012 2012–present

Table 1:LOGOS OF MICROSOFT

LIST OF MICROSOFT SOFTWARE:

The following is a list of the notable Microsoft software applications.

 DEVELOPMENT SOFTWARE
1) Microsoft Visual Studio
I. Visual BASIC
II. VISUAL C++

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III. C#
2) Microsoft Visual Studio Express
I. Visual C++ Express
II. Visual Basic.Net

 INTERNET
1) Bing Bar
2) Microsoft Edge
3) Microsoft Silverlight
4) Skype
5) MSN
6) Windows Essentials, formerly Windows Live Essentials
a) Microsoft Family Safety
b) Microsoft Outlook Hotmail Connector
c) OneDrive
d) Windows Live Mail
e) Windows Live Writer
f) Windows Photo Gallery

 OFFICE
1) Microsoft Access
2) Microsoft Excel
3) Microsoft FrontPage
4) Microsoft InfoPath
5) Microsoft Paint
6) Microsoft Notepad
7) Microsoft Office Picture Manager
8) Microsoft OneNote
9) Microsoft Outlook
10) Microsoft PowerPoint
11) Microsoft Project
12) Microsoft Publisher
13) Microsoft SharePoint Workspace
14) Microsoft Visio

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15) Microsoft Word

 OPERATING SYSTEMS
1) MS-DOS
2) Microsoft Windows
a. Windows NT
b. Windows CE
c. Windows Mobile
d. Windows Phone
e. Windows Server
f. Windows 95
g. Windows 98
h. Windows 2000
i. Windows XP
j. Windows Server 2003
k. Windows Vista
l. Windows 7
m. Windows 8
n. Windows 8.1
o. Windows RT
p. Windows 10
3) MSX-DOS
4) OS/2
5) Zune

 VIDEO GAMES
 Age of Empires series
 Age of Mythology
 Dead Rising 3
 Freelancer

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 PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES AND COMPILERS

1) GW-BASIC
2) Microsoft BASIC
3) Visual Basic
I. Visual Basic for Applications
II. VBScript
4) Visual C++
5) Visual C#
6) Visual Studio
I. Visual Studio Tools for Office
II. Visual Studio Tools for Applications

 OTHER PRODUCTS
 Microsoft Servers
 Microsoft Azure
 Microsoft SQL Server
 Windows Media Player
 Windows Live
 Windows Mobile
 Pocket PC

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WHO WOULD WIN IN A FIGHT: MICROSOFT OFFICE OR GOOGLE DOCS?

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30% Office
Google Docs
25% tie

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Office

chart 1:Who would win