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Microsoft

Also Known As Micro-Soft The original hyphenated spelling used at the company's 1975 founding.

Information Technology

American multinational technology company founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen on April 4, 1975 in Albuquerque, New Mexico, after the two demonstrated a BASIC interpreter for the Altair 8800 microcomputer. Microsoft relocated to the Pacific Northwest in 1986 and rose to dominance through a contract to supply IBM with an operating system for personal computers, followed by the Windows graphical interface and Office productivity suite.

Facts

Company Type

Multinational technology company 2

Founded Year

1975 2

Headquarters

Redmond, Washington, U.S. 2

Size Band

100,000 or More 3

Listing

Nasdaq 4

Status

Active 4

Company Type

Company Type (category)

Public 1

FAQs

Why was Microsoft originally spelled with a hyphen?

Microsoft was founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen on April 4, 1975 in Albuquerque, New Mexico, after the two demonstrated a BASIC interpreter for the Altair 8800 microcomputer. Paul Allen suggested the name Micro-Soft, short for micro-computer software, which the company later shortened to Microsoft.

Connections

Associated With

Microsoft Antitrust Case

Source Wikipedia, United States v. Microsoft Corp.

Microsoft Azure

Microsoft Azure is operated by Microsoft.

Microsoft Office

Microsoft Office is developed by Microsoft.

Microsoft Windows

Microsoft Windows is developed by Microsoft.

Platform economy

Source Wikipedia, Platform Economy

Product Bundling

Microsoft's 1990 Office suite is a standing example of software product bundling: separate applications sold together as one package.

Source Wikipedia, Microsoft

Source Wikipedia, Subsidiary

Xbox is designed and sold by Microsoft.

Founded By

Source Wikipedia, Microsoft

Source Wikipedia, Microsoft

Led By

Source Wikipedia, Bill Gates

Operates In

Technology Industry

Source Wikipedia, Microsoft

Parent Company Of

Source Fox Software Wikipedia article (Wikipedia)

Source Xamarin (Wikipedia)

Related Corporate Events

Microsoft Antitrust Case

Source Wikipedia, United States v. Microsoft Corp.

Microsoft-LinkedIn Acquisition

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Same As

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Developed

Active Server Pages

Also in Computing Atlas: developed by this subject.

Source Active Server Pages (Wikipedia)Lead, developer

Quote, Lead, developer

Active Server Pages (ASP) is Microsoft's first server-side scripting language and engine for dynamic web pages.

Applesoft BASIC

Also in Computing Atlas: developed by this subject.

Source Applesoft BASIC (Wikipedia)Lead paragraph, second sentence

Quote, Lead paragraph, second sentence

Applesoft BASIC was supplied by Microsoft

Also in Computing Atlas: developed by this subject.

Business Process Execution Language

Also in Computing Atlas: developed by this subject.

Source Business Process Execution Language (Wikipedia)History, Microsoft

Quote, History, Microsoft

IBM and Microsoft decided to combine these languages into a new language, BPEL4WS

Also in Computing Atlas: developed by this subject.

Also in Computing Atlas: developed by this subject.

Source Programming Language Database (PLDB): C/AL (PLDB)Page summary

Quote, Page summary

Early development of C/AL happened in Microsoft

Also in Computing Atlas: developed by this subject.

Source C++/CLI (Wikipedia)Lead, creator

Quote, Lead, creator

Microsoft created C++/CLI to supersede Managed Extensions for C++.

Cairo (operating system)

Also in Computing Atlas: developed by this subject.

Common Intermediate Language

Also in Computing Atlas: developed by this subject.

Source Programming Language Database (PLDB): CIL (PLDB)Early development

Quote, Early development

Early development of CIL happened in Microsoft

Also in Computing Atlas: developed by this subject.

Source CryptGenRandom (Wikipedia)Lead

Quote, Lead

CryptGenRandom is a cryptographically secure pseudorandom number generator function that is included in Microsoft CryptoAPI.

Also in Computing Atlas: developed by this subject.

Extensible Application Markup Language

Also in Computing Atlas: developed by this subject.

Source Extensible Application Markup Language (Wikipedia)Lead, developer

Quote, Lead, developer

is a declarative XML-based language developed by Microsoft

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Also in Computing Atlas: developed by this subject.

Source IBM BASIC (Wikipedia)Lead, interpreter

Quote, Lead, interpreter

IBM released four different versions of the Microsoft BASIC interpreter, licensed from Microsoft for the PC and PCjr.

Also in Computing Atlas: developed by this subject.

Also in Computing Atlas: developed by this subject.

Source Programming Language Database (PLDB): JScriptPLDB page header [invented-by-company]

Quote, PLDB page header [invented-by-company]

JScript is Microsoft's dialect of the ECMAScript standard that is used in Microsoft's Internet Explorer.

Also in Computing Atlas: developed by this subject.

Source JScript .NET (Wikipedia)Lead, developer

Quote, Lead, developer

JScript .NET is a .NET framework programming language developed by Microsoft as proprietary software.

Managed Extensions for C++

Also in Computing Atlas: developed by this subject.

Source Managed Extensions for C++ (Wikipedia)Lead, creator

Quote, Lead, creator

These extensions were created by Microsoft to allow C++ code to be targeted to the Common Language Runtime (CLR)

Also in Computing Atlas: developed by this subject.

Source Programming Language Database (PLDB): MBASIC (PLDB)Lead, early development

Quote, Lead, early development

Early development of MBASIC happened in Microsoft

Microsoft Access

Also in Computing Atlas: developed by this subject.

Microsoft Azure

Also in Computing Atlas: developed by this subject.

Microsoft BASIC

Also in Computing Atlas: developed by this subject.

Source Microsoft BASIC (Wikipedia)Lead

Quote, Lead

Microsoft BASIC is the foundation software product of the Microsoft company

Microsoft Macro Assembler

Also in Computing Atlas: developed by this subject.

Source Microsoft Macro Assembler (Wikipedia)Lead, maintained by Microsoft

Quote, Lead, maintained by Microsoft

MASM is maintained by Microsoft

Microsoft Pascal

Also in Computing Atlas: developed by this subject.

Source Microsoft Pascal (Wikipedia)Lead, invented by company

Quote, Lead, invented by company

implementation of the Pascal programming language developed by the Microsoft Corporation

Microsoft Power Fx

Also in Computing Atlas: developed by this subject.

Source Microsoft Power Fx (Wikipedia)History

Quote, History

The initial formula language was created by a Microsoft team led by Vijay Mital, Robin Abraham, Shon Katzenberger and Darryl Rubin as part of the Tangram and Siena projects.

Microsoft Small Basic

Also in Computing Atlas: developed by this subject.

Source Microsoft Small Basic (Wikipedia)History

Quote, History

Microsoft announced Small Basic in October 2008

Microsoft SQL Server

Also in Computing Atlas: developed by this subject.

Microsoft Windows

Also in Computing Atlas: developed by this subject.

Also in Computing Atlas: developed by this subject.

MS-DOS 4.0 (multitasking)

Also in Computing Atlas: developed by this subject.

Also in Computing Atlas: developed by this subject.

Also in Computing Atlas: developed by this subject.

Source Programming Language Database (PLDB): MSX BASICOrigin

Quote, Origin

Early development of MSX BASIC happened in Microsoft

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Also in Computing Atlas: developed by this subject.

Also in Computing Atlas: developed by this subject.

Also in Computing Atlas: developed by this subject.

Source Programming Language Database (PLDB): QBasicPLDB page development note

Quote, PLDB page development note

Early development of QBasic happened in Microsoft

Sequential Minimal Optimization

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Also in Computing Atlas: developed by this subject.

Also in Computing Atlas: developed by this subject.

Also in Computing Atlas: developed by this subject.

Also in Computing Atlas: developed by this subject.

Also in Computing Atlas: developed by this subject.

Also in Computing Atlas: developed by this subject.

Source Visual J Sharp (Wikipedia)Lead, development

Quote, Lead, development

It was developed by the Hyderabad-based Microsoft India Development Center at HITEC City in India.

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Source Visual J++ (Wikipedia)Lead, developer

Quote, Lead, developer

Visual J++ is Microsoft's discontinued implementation of Java.

Also in Computing Atlas: developed by this subject.

Source WordBASIC (Wikipedia)Lead, developer

Quote, Lead, developer

WordBASIC was a subset of Microsoft QuickBASIC customized for word-processing in Microsoft Word.

Also in Computing Atlas: developed by this subject.

Also in Computing Atlas: developed by this subject.

Origin Of

Also in Computing Atlas: which originated in this subject.

Source Wikipedia: C Sharp (programming language)tier 2

Microsoft Access

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Microsoft SQL Server

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Also in Computing Atlas: which originated in this subject.

Located In

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Sources

1. Wikidata: Microsoft

Wikidata Q2283, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)
Wikidata Q2283 P31=Q891723 (public) (w-bbfill-business4-0926 knownqid fetch)

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2. Wikipedia, Microsoft

Wikipedia

Article text
Gates and Allen established Microsoft on April 4, 1975, with Gates as CEO, and Allen suggested the name "Micro-Soft", short for micro-computer software.
In Category: Companies and Brands
Founded By: Bill Gates
Founded By: Paul Allen
Operates In: Technology Industry

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3. StockAnalysis.com: StockAnalysis company profile for Microsoft

StockAnalysis.comCompany profile: Employees

Quote, Company profile: Employees

Employees 223,000

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4. U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (EDGAR): SEC EDGAR submissions for MICROSOFT CORP

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (EDGAR)

exchanges
"exchanges": [ "Nasdaq" ]
tickers
"tickers": [ "MSFT" ]

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Wikipedia, Bill Gates

WikipediaLed By: Bill GatesView the Source

Wikipedia, United States v. Microsoft Corp.

Wikipedia

Associated With: Microsoft Antitrust Case, Lead section
Related Corporate Events: Microsoft Antitrust Case

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Wikipedia, Platform Economy

WikipediaAssociated With: Platform economy, Wikipedia lead; target 267948

Quote, Associated With: Platform economy, Wikipedia lead; target 267948

These platforms, such as Amazon, Airbnb, Uber, Microsoft and Google, serve as intermediaries between various groups of users, enabling interactions, transactions, collaboration, and innovation.

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Wikipedia, Subsidiary

Associated With: Subsidiary, Wikipedia lead; target 267948

Quote, Associated With: Subsidiary, Wikipedia lead; target 267948

More focused companies include IBM, Xerox, and Microsoft; they and their subsidiaries primarily operate within the tech sector.

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Fox Software Wikipedia article (Wikipedia)

Parent Company Of: Fox Software, Description

Quote, Parent Company Of: Fox Software, Description

after they acquired Fox Software in its entirety in 1992

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Xamarin (Wikipedia)

Parent Company Of: Xamarin, Lead

Quote, Parent Company Of: Xamarin, Lead

Xamarin Inc. is a Microsoft-owned San Francisco-based software company

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