Case Study On Microsoft

Introduction and History

Clients
Products and Services
Profit
Future goals and Conclusion
 Introduction
1)Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational technology
corporation which produces computer software,consumer
electronics,personal computers,and related services.
2)Microsoft was founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen.
3)Satya Nadella is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Microsoft.
4)Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational corporation
headquartered in Washington.
5)Microsoft ranked No. 21 in 2020 Fortune 500 rankings of the largest
United States corporations by total revenue.
6)It is considered as one of the Big Five companies of US.
 History
1)Microsoft was founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen on
April 4,1975.
2)The first product the company sold was Microsoft
BASIC,a computer programming language system for
creating software.
3)It rose to dominate the personal computer operating
system market with MS-DOS in the mid-1980’s.
4)The company released its first version of Windows on
Nov 20,1985.
 History
5)By the mid-1990’s Microsoft had become one of the more
powerful and profitable companies in American history.
6)Microsoft began planning a major replacement for all its
operating systems in 2001.
7)Microsoft acquired Skype Technologies in 2011 and
LinkedIn in 2016.
8)According to 2021 survey,Microsoft was selected as the
best company of the year.
Clients
● Microsoft's business customers are companies of all kinds and sizes. From
large multinationals to fresh start ups.
● Microsoft Azure is MS’s answer to cloud services for business. The Azure
platform comprises hundreds of cloud services that can be purchased for use
either as solo products, interconnected components, or end-to-end pipelines.
This As A Service model removes the need for businesses to invest in
expensive company owned and managed IT infrastructure.
1. Samsung
Samsung announced its decision to adopt Microsoft Azure in order to manage its entire Smart TV
infrastructure .By choosing Azure cloud technology, Samsung was able to achieve a significant reduction
in costs as well as increased capacity in order to meet its growing customer base along with higher
productivity.
2.. BMW
In 2019, both the BMW Group and Microsoft announced its own latest community initiative in order to
enable, cost effective, faster innovation in the entire automotive and manufacturing sectors
3. GE Healthcare
GE Healthcare partnered with Microsoft to deliver Core Customer Solutions on the Cloud GE Healthcare
of Microsoft, which is a division of famous General Electric and provides transformational and innovative
medical services and technologies to shape a new age of patient care. GE Healthcare wanted a more
flexible as well as scalable platform for easily delivering applications that healthcare providers from
worldwide can rely on. In order to meet its targeted goals, it finally pursued its own cross-platform cloud
strategy and duly decided to deploy its multiple different applications on Microsoft azure.
Some of the biggest spenders on azure
1) Verizon: $79.9 million
2) MSI Computer: $78 million
3) LG Electronics: $76.7 million
4) CenturyLink: $61.9 million
5) NTT America: $48.7 million
6) Wikimedia Foundation: $42.6 million
7) LinkedIn Corp: $41.2 million
8) News Corp: $40.5 million
9) Adobe: $39.9 million
10) Intel: $38.5 million
 Products & Services
● Microsoft products include operating systems, cross-device
productivity applications, server applications, business solution
applications, desktop and server management tools, software
development tools, and video games.

● Microsoft also designs and sells devices, including PCs,

tablets, gaming and entertainment consoles, other intelligent
devices, and related accessories.
Products & Services
● Today, Microsoft has over 100 Products, Services and Applications.
Few of them are:
● Microsoft Azure is an open, flexible, enterprise-grade cloud computing platform.
● Some popular software applications by Microsoft are Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Outlook,
Microsoft Teams, etc.
● Bing is a Search Engine by Microsoft.
● Microsoft Windows, also called Windows and Windows OS, computer operating system (OS)
developed by Microsoft Corporation to run personal computers (PCs).
● Microsoft Surface is a series of touchscreen-based personal computers, tablets and
interactive whiteboards
● Microsoft is also into Gaming Industry. It presently owns 23 game studios beneath Microsoft
Studios brand.
PROFIT
● Microsoft was founded in the year 1975,the first year itself they made a
revenue of 17000$.
● Microsoft launched their IPO in 1986 in which the price band was 21$ per
share,the current market price of each share is 300~.
● Till the early 2000s microsoft was into developing software’s for companies
like IBM and other multinational companies but now microsoft has a
diversified portfolio in which they have products ranging from XBOX’s to VR.
● Microsoft reported it’s Q4 2021 performance with revenue of $46.2 billion,net
income of $16.5 billion ,up 47% from last year and dividend per share of
$2.17,and is giving average CAGR of 14%.
Future goals and conclusion of management:
Goals:
1)Enhance the communication.
2)Hone coaching skills.
3)Increase the productivity.
4)Support and manage the change.
5)Improve the retention rate.
6)Motivation.

Conclusion:
Management mainly involves in solving the problems by
planning,organizing,leading and controlling.
Successful management are made not born.They are self-
made,through continuous and never-ending work on
themselves.It starts from the scratch takes lot of hard work
in order to sustain for a long period of time.