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- Legal Name: Microsoft Corporation
- Website: www.microsoft.com
- Founded: 1975
- Founder(s): Bill Gates, Paul Allen
- Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft
- Stock Symbol: NASDAQ: MSFT
What is Microsoft?
Microsoft is a technology corporation that became the world’s biggest software company. Microsoft is established in April of 1975 by Harvard College dropout Bill Gates and his childhood friend Paul Allen. Microsoft’s first popular operating system was Microsoft Disk Operating System, or MS-DOS for short, that was written for IBM in 1981. MS-DOS was based on Tim Paterson’s QDOS. Gates licensed MS-DOS to IBM but decided to retain the rights. Shortly after, in 1983, Microsoft announced the iconic Microsoft Windows operating system with a graphical interface and multitasking environment for IBM computers. The company also released a mouse in 1983.
After successful operating systems, Microsoft decided to go public in 1986. In 1989, Microsoft released another product, a software package that is a collection of office programs. It already became a huge success shortly after its release. During the 90s, as the internet started gaining popularity, Microsoft added built-in features to its Windows 95 operating system, such as dial-up networking, TCP/IP and most importantly web browser Internet Explorer.
At the beginning of 2000, the company appointed Steve Ballmer as the CEO. Bill Gates had met Ballmer during his years in Harvard University. During the 2000s, Microsoft introduces its first gaming unit, Xbox and in 2012, its first surface tablet computer that ran Windows RT or Windows 8 Pro operating system. The company also released a mobile operating system, Windows Mobile OS, which is used by sellers such as HTC, LG, and Samsung. In 2011, Microsoft acquired Skype for $8.5 billion.
Microsoft is also a strong competitor in the cloud computing field. The company’s cloud computing platform Azure was announced in 2008. It allows customers to build computing infrastructure in the cloud. In 2011, Microsoft added Office 365 to its cloud platform. Microsoft is also still developing its database server solution Microsoft SQL Server. In 2014, Steve Ballmer stepped down as CEO and succeeded by Satya Nadella. Microsoft is still the provider of the world’s most popular operating system and along with its many other software and the company is a strong competitor in the cloud computing field.
Microsoft News
Microsoft mitigates MIMO vulnerabilities on Intel CPUs
Intel's "Processors MMIO Stale Data Advisory" has reported finding security vulnerabilities in Memory Mapped I/O (MMIO) for some Intel processors, ...
Microsoft 365 Defender gets improved for corporations
Microsoft said last year that Microsoft 365 Defender would incorporate an automatic attack disruption tool to assist enterprises with cybersecurity ...
Outlook’s spam filters are broken
Microsoft's Outlook service has encountered an unknown issue that resulted in spam emails landing in the inbox, without being filtered. ...
Microsoft to invest in cloud data center region in Saudi Arabia
Software giant Microsoft keeps focusing on cloud computing. The company aims to invest in a new cloud data center region ...
Microsoft’s new AI-powered Bing search engine and Edge browser
On February 7, Microsoft unveiled a wholly revamped Bing search engine and Edge browser to "provide better search, more comprehensive ...
What is GitHub Copilot?
Each year, thousands of students start studying software development while expert developers are improving themselves to be better in specific ...
Microsoft is force updating Windows 11 21H2
Windows Update started to automatically update devices running Windows 11, version 21H2 on January 26th. Computers that have been running ...
Microsoft continues to invest in OpenAI
Microsoft has announced that it will extend its partnership with OpenAI through a multiyear, multibillion-dollar investment. Since OpenAI services recently ...
Microsoft to lay off 5% of its workforce
A lot of big companies have been spotted laying off a big number of workers in a short time such ...
Microsoft releases the patch for the Windows Defender issue
Microsoft's update for Windows Defender earlier this week has caused big issues such as missing shortcuts, taskbar, and even the ...
Russian media claims that Microsoft and Intel are once again operational
Although Russian media claimed that Intel and Microsoft are started up their operations in Russia and Belarus, companies declined the ...
New Windows Defender update breaks itself
Microsoft Defender's security intelligence update build 1.381.2140.0 has caused problems with its "block Win32 API calls from Office macro" Attack ...
Microsoft fixes the ODBC connection issue
In December of 2022, Windows ran into an issue that caused Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) connections to break. The problem ...
Microsoft announced the Fungible acquisition
Microsoft announced the acquisition of Fungible, the company that invented the Fungible DPUs in 2016. With the acquisition, the Fungible ...
High-severity flaw in JsonWebToken library fixed by Auth0
The open-source module "JsonWebToken" is used in over a thousand projects, specifically in projects that are open-source. Auth0 fixes the ...
Extended security updates for Windows 7 ends
Microsoft announced that extended security updates for Windows 7 Professional and Enterprise editions will end on January 10, 2023. Microsoft ...
Windows Server 2012 reaching end of life in October
Microsoft is ending support for Windows Server 2012 and Windows Server 2012 R2 on October 10, 2023. Microsoft advised users ...
Chrome, Android, Microsoft and Mozilla no longer use TrustCor
Support for TrustCor was dropped by Google, Android, and Mozilla after security concerns were brought to light by a professor ...
Microsoft warns for the last time for disabling Basic Auth in Exchange Online
Microsoft has warned its users multiple times previously about Basic Auth not meeting their security needs anymore. Microsoft suggests changing ...
Microsoft releases out-of-band updates for Hyper-V VM issues
Microsoft issues an urgent out-of-band (OOB) fix for problems with creating Hyper-V virtual machines. The problem only impacts virtual machines ...
Windows 10 December update causes blue screen of death crashes
Microsoft stated that after installing the December update, some Windows devices might start up to an error (0xc000021a) with a ...
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