Presentation created by Asya Moskalenko for Business Information Systems

Tutor: Gerry Mc Cann

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Microsoft has made a breakthrough in the world of informational technologies and has changed the normal understanding of the word “computer”.

Founded on April 4 1975, Microsoft is mostly famous in the world for Windows-series and Office systems (Microsoft). Originally the company was set up by Paul Allen and Bill Gates, however Microsoft is usually associated only with the name of one of them. Nowadays it is a leading corporation witch provides their users with platform for mobile and cloud solutions (Microsoft).

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As enormously huge corporation Microsoft consists from 810 sites (including own property and renting offices) which are located all over the world and cover about 41,346,549 square feet, meanwhile the total number of employee can be estimated as 112,388 people (Microsoft). It is noteworthy that the corporation has four divided operation centres one of which is based in Dublin (Ireland) (Microsoft).

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Technologies such as Microsoft Surface Pro 4 have turned the PC market upside down. Until Apple has pretty different points of view on

the further progress of the iPad tablet and MacBook laptops, the Microsoft policy is boils down to improve hybrid devices such as

Surface Pro, which can totally replace the modern PC.

Being one of the key players and realising that competition gets harder constantly Microsoft

have been diversifying their production since they broke into the market of IT-solutions.

That is why today the company has several absolutely independent segments which are

focused on completely different areas: operation systems and productivity, mobile gadgets, cloud

solutions, games and even own centres of global researches (Microsoft).

In spite of this fact, following the user friendly policy, developers didn’t forget about

collaboration between all of mentioned platforms.

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