Microsoft and the Ever-changing Technology Market

Abstract

This paper is about the Microsoft Company's organizational issues. It discusses the introduction, history and an overview of the company's profile. It also focuses on the identified problems and recommendations for the issue.

Microsoft and the Ever-changing Technology Market

Introduction

Microsoft Corporation is one of the largest producers of software for computers, mobile phones, PDAs, and other computing devices. Microsoft Corporation also produces accessories for personal computers. The best-known software product is Microsoft Windows operating system and software package for editing documents and presentations, Microsoft Office. In addition, the company, together with its partners, is committed to spreading encourage companies and consumers with solutions in Cloud Computing. Microsoft boasts a long experience in this field and today millions of users around the world are already using cloud-based services, solutions for personal productivity and group hosting and application development, the management of IT infrastructure and entertainment the mobility. For over 15 years, the company has developed a deep knowledge in the field of Cloud Computing, which I extend to all fields of application, from business to consumer.

History of Microsoft

Microsoft company history begins in 1975 when two friends, Bill Gates and Allen developed Poll Basic language interpreter for released on the eve of the computer Altair. In the same year, they signed a licensing agreement with a manufacturer to use Altair produced their software. Gross profit for 1975 was $ 1 million. The first international branch of Microsoft was established in Japan in 1978. Up until the early 80's the company was selling software based on Microsoft BASIC, which was due to its wide spread. Now, given the relentless struggle between supporters of the Windows operating systems and versions Unix, is difficult to imagine that the very first operating system that Microsoft introduced a wide market in 1980 was based on Unix. The first text editor “Multi-Tool Word” - a prototype familiar to us “Word”, which was one of the first to use the principle of “What You See Is What You Get (what you see is what you get)” was also built to work under a system based on Unix.

However, due to a number of license agreements to sell the operating system to end users failed. The complexity of the implementation of operating systems based on Unix led to the fact that Microsoft is almost completely refused to cooperate with Unix. This success came to Microsoft with the launch of the operating system DOS, which Microsoft bought the company and further developed for IBM in 1981. The company has developed two versions of the operating system - CP / M and PC-DOS, which cost, respectively, $ 240 and $ 40, but this has become the market leader in PC-DOS is due to its low cost. PC market grew steadily, it appeared new players and Microsoft developed for these market-based operating systems DOS. MS DOS from a small company turned into a major player in the market for operating systems.

In addition, Microsoft did not forget to promote ...