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Anderson, David,Mateus

Revenue: 65,7 billion.

Funded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen in 1975

Microsoft =originated from the English words microcomputer and software

Inted at first to develop software in BASIC language for the Altair 8800 computer from IBM

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In 1979 , IBM seeks an operating system for your new computer and hires Microsoft for the service.

They had a incomplete operating system . The solution was to buy the Q -DOS from Seattle Computer Products for $ 50,000 to improve it.

Not managed to overshadow the attention received by the Apple Lisa

ºmanaged to copy the Lisa graphical interface and selling a similar version in Japan.

Windows only reaches the market in 1985 under the name Windows 1.0

Microsoft was conquering the market more and more. It has also launched the Windows versions: 3.0, 3.1, 95 , 98, Me ( Millennium Edition ), XP and Vista, Seven and the last : Windows 10 .

In November 2005 it launched the Xbox, it reached U$ 23 billion profit in the first quarter 2014

ºOn 08/27/13 buying Finland's Nokia for about 7.2 billion reais.

Microsoft is involved in several battles in court. Most of it concerns the monopoly practices

After a small drop in company revenue in 2009 , in 2010 Microsoft again showed cescimento of their gains , following ongoing since 2001

Bill Gates left Harvard University to found the then Microsoft.

Between the first and the fifth year of life of the company, Microsfot increased its profit of $ 16,000 to a million dollars .

Bill Gates became a millionaire at age 31 .

Temporary employees receive Microsoft e-mail address with a hyphen before the "at" symbol .

Microsoft's newest employee is 18 years old ; the oldest, 74. In the United States , the average age in the company is 36 years , with 51 % of employees between 30 and 39. Only two are under 20 .

There are over 2000 bloggers among company employees.

More than 3 million internal emails are exchanged daily

More than 3 million internal emails are exchanged daily

Approximately 42 million soft drink cans were consumed by Microsoft employees since 1978, when the company inaugurated the tradition of offering them for free.

The current Microsoft value is US $ 359.900 billion

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES:

http://blog.ceviu.com.br/info/noticias/confira-18-curiosidades-sobre-a-microsoft/

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http://www.vocesabia.net/curiosidades/curiosidades-sobre-a-microsoft/

http://mundodasmarcas.blogspot.com.br/2006/05/microsoft-mina-de-ouro.html

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