Microsoft

Microsoft Corporation is a multinational computer technology corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of software products for computing devices. Headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA, its most profitable products are the Microsoft windows operating system and the Microsoft Office suite of productivity software.

The company was founded in 1975. The company markets Computer hardware products such as the Microsoft mouse and the Microsoft natural keyboard, as well as home entertainment products such as the xbox, xbox360, zune and Msn TV In 2005, Microsoft received a 100% rating in the Corporate Equality Index from the human rights campaign, a ranking of companies by how progressive the organization deems their policies concerning LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transsexual) employees. Partly through the work of the gay and lesbian employee’s at Microsoft (GLEAM) group, Microsoft added gender expression to its anti-discrimination policies in April 2005, and the Human Rights Campaign upgraded Microsoft's Corporate Equality Index from its 86% rating in 2004 to its current 100% rating. In 1987, Microsoft adopted its current logo, the so-called "Pac-Man Logo", designed by Scott Baker. According to the March 1987 Computer Reseller News Magazine, "The new logo, in Helvetica italic typeface, has a slash between the o and s to emphasize the "soft" part of the name and convey motion and speed." Dave Norris, a Microsoft employee, ran an internal joke campaign to save the old logo, which was green, in all uppercase, and featured a fanciful letter O, nicknamed the blibbet, but it was discarded.

Microsoft's logo with the "Your potential. Our passion." tagline below the main corporate name is based on the slogan Microsoft had as of 2008. In 2002, the company started using the logo in the United States and eventually started a TV campaign with the slogan, changed from the previous tagline of "Where Do You Want To Go Today?."

There are also other taglines that Microsoft previously used, such as Making it all make sense.

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Microsoft have made 4 billionaires and a estimated 12,000 millionaires from Microsoft employee’s.
Now I am going to tell you Microsoft’s best 3 products.
Microsoft’s 3rd best product is Microsoft TweakUI. This was a small download hidden within the depths of Microsoft’s website, and sometimes showed up on Windows install discs. It is basically a small user interface application that allows you to tweak various Windows settings without having to dig through the registry. Whenever I install a copy of Windows the first task is always to go through TweakUI and change the settings to how Windows should be. Some of the best tweaks are setting the Start Menu to load instantly on mouse hover (called Menu Speed), as opposed to waiting 0.5 seconds (or clicking) to browse. I also always made sure to disable “detect accidental double-clicks” which is what causes that annoying delay when you click text forms in IE (back when it was the only really compatible choice). Other little tweaks are there to allow you to make Windows look the way you want it to; disable the “Shortcut to:” text that is added when you make a shortcut, or set an automatic login if you need to. At one time, all the AutoPlay settings (when you insert media) were only found within TweakUI as well, so some of the settings have found their way into Window’s normal Control Panel.

The 2nd best product is Windows Media Player. The new graphics-based listing is absolutely perfect, and allows you to sort through even the largest music collections with ease. CD covers are ’stacked’ to represent a pile of CD’s sorted any way you wish; via artist, genre, or year of release. The wheel-based search makes it even better, as results are shown as you type in a search phrase.
Media Sharing is another nice feature, and allows videos, music, and pictures to be easily shared across a network to Pcs and even the Xbox 360 without the need to jump through hoops to allow access to the other devices.

The 1st best Microsoft product is the Xbox 360. The Xbox 360 is the second video game console produced by Microsoft, and the successor to the Xbox. The Xbox 360 competes with Sony's PlayStation 3 and Nintendo's Wii as part of the seventh generation of video game consoles.

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Early in his elementary school days, Bill Gates quickly shot to the head of the class, consistently outscoring his peers in most subjects, but especially math and science. His parents soon enrolled him in Lakeside Prep School, where the atmosphere was intellectual enough to stimulate the young Gates. This move to Lakeside would prove historic, for it was here, in the spring of 1968, that he was introduced to computers.

At that time, computers were still too large and expensive for the school to purchase one of its own. Over the next ten months or so, the school struck agreements with various corporations who allowed the students to use their computers. Bill Gates, his buddy Paul Allen and a handful of others quickly took to computing. In fact, they began to skip classes, opting instead to stay in the computer room and write programs, read computer books and find out exactly how these machines worked. They soon learned to hack the system, and altered and crashed valuable files until they were banned from the computer. Soon, however, Bill and his friends were actually hired by thecomputer company to find bugs and explore weaknesses in the system, which kept causing the computers to crash. Instead of paying the boys for their time, they were granted something even better--unlimited computer time. Gates has been quoted as saying that that was the time when he got into computers fulltime. "I mean, then I became hardcore. It was day and night," he said. The boys used their time eating, drinking and breathing computers. They studied manuals, explored the system, and hounded the employees with questions until they had formed a base of knowledge that would eventually lead to the formation of Microsoft.
The computer company that was hiring went out of business in 1970, and the boys had to find alternate sources for computer time. They were soon hired by Information Sciences Inc. to write a program for payroll. This time they actually earned money as well as enjoying the unlimited computer time. It was during this time that the group gained notoriety for their skill in computer programming. They were hired or contracted by various organizations to find bugs and fix them.