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Microsoft Corporation Summary
1,116 words, approx. 4 pages Microsoft Corporation, a software company, was started by Bill Gates and Paul Allen in 1975 when MITS (Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems) produced the first widely available personal computer in kit form, called the Altair 8800. This computer...
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Microsoft Summary
1,050 words, approx. 4 pages Microsoft is a United States-based company that develops and sells a wide variety of software products and services for business and personal computing. Microsoft is the world's largest supplier of operating systems (OSs) and other software for...
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Microsoft Summary
1,547 words, approx. 5 pages Over the course of two decades Microsoft, a computer software corporation founded in 1975, has become synonymous in the minds of many with the computer age and its high-speed advances in technology and communication. Often called the General Motors of...
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Microsoft Information
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 Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) (SEHK: 4338), or often just MS,[4] is an American multinational computer technology corporation with 79,000 employees in 102 countries and global annual revenue of US $51.12 billion as of 2007.[2] It develops,...



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Microsoft Quotes
161 words, approx. 1 pages
 Microsoft is an American multinational computer technology corporation. It develops, manufactures, licenses and supports a wide range of software products for computing devices. Headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA, its best selling products are...




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FABLE (Microsoft)
12/20/2004: 262 words, approx. 1 pages Audio/Visual: The graphics are excellent. Everything is detailed from the people, the clothing, to the environment to leaves on the ground moving around as you walk by. As you play, the sun rises and sets and age begins to show on your character....
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Microsoft settles Iowa lawsuit
4/18/2007: 267 words, approx. 1 pages Microsoft Corp. agreed Wednesday to pay Iowans up to $180 million to settle a class-action lawsuit that claimed the company had a monopoly that cost the state's citizens millions of dollars extra for software products.The $179.5 million settlement means individuals in Iowa who bought certain...
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Microsoft ends EU appeals
10/24/2007: 578 words, approx. 2 pages Microsoft Corp. said Wednesday it had withdrawn the two last challenges to an EU antitrust order — a move that shuts the book on its past legal fights and lets it focus on avoiding future trouble with European regulators.After a battle with the European Commission...
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Microsoft details patent breaches
5/15/2007: 745 words, approx. 3 pages Microsoft Corp. has given the most detailed description to date of the number of open-source computer programs it says infringe on its patents, but the company says it still prefers licensing deals with open-source developers, software distributors and users instead of legal action against them."There...



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Microsoft Antitrust Lawsuit Project
2,744 words, approx. 9 pages
 On July 15, 1994, the United States sued Microsoft for unlawfully maintaining its monopoly in the market for PC operating system software. The lawsuit alleged that Microsoft engaged in anti-competitive marketing practices directed at PC manufacturers that distributed Microsoft operating system software preinstalled on its PCs. Microsoft began to levy fines against original equipment manufacturing (OEM) companies who distributed or promoted operating systems other than Microsoft. On August 21, 1995, Microsof
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Microsoft
220 words, approx. 1 pages
 Describes the founding of Microsoft. Provides a brief summary of its rise to the top of the software industry.


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