FINANCIAL ANALYSIS

Financial Statement Analysis

Financial Statement Analysis

About Microsoft

In 1980, Microsoft releases its first hardware product: the Z80 card (or Soft Card), a microprocessor designed by Federico of printed circuit board which, in the computer Apple II , allows the car to run on thousands of programs available for the class Computer 8080 / CP / M with small changes. Gates also buys for $ 50,000 from Seattle Computer Products operating system "quick and dirty", the QDOS , "Quick and Dirt Operating System", which will underpin the future of MS-DOS, destined to become a standard part of personal computer using the economic power of IBM and the business acumen of Bill Gates. He had, in fact, from Tim Paterson (who had made the Q-DOS), a non-exclusive license agreement, which allowed him the opportunity to resell the product. Following Microsoft closes the circle by buying all the rights of Seattle Computer Products, assuming he employs the same Paterson (Abolafia, 1996).

In 1981 the company became a private company with Bill Gates as President, and Paul Allen as executive vice president. The company is now called Microsoft Inc., with residence in Washington. Microsoft holds an agreement with Apple, the market exit of the revolutionary Macintosh, making it the leading developer of products for the Mac.

In May 1985, Microsoft introduced the use of the mouse in its software, and in September creates Word for MS-DOS 1.00. Subscribers are included in PC World magazine, a floppy with a demo version of Microsoft Word: This is the first time a magazine includes a floppy disk, and many think that it is free to use. It is a good time to unveil a new product: Microsoft Windows, an extension of MS-DOS that provides a graphical operating environment. Windows has the ability to manage windows that allow the user to see more unrelated programs simultaneously (Aglietta, 1979).

Microsoft opens branches in France, Germany and England, specializing in sales on the European market. In 1984, employees exceeds 600 units, revenues totaled $ 97,479,000. In recent years, the Company announces that it has chosen the Republic of Ireland as a country in which to install its first production facility outside the U.S. manufacturing facility for the production and distribution of products throughout Europe. Celebrate, so its tenth anniversary by selling the first version of its Windows graphical environment. The cost is about $ 99.

The company moved into a new complex consisting of 4 buildings in Redmond, Wash. In the same year he received the "Washington State Governor's Export Award" for the category of the service company [7] . In 1987, finally, leads to the conclusion of the acquisition of Forethought Inc., a software application that was developed PowerPoint and who was the exclusive distributor of FileMaker Plus, the best-selling database for Mac. In 1988, MS-DOS is used by 30 million users worldwide. Mice have sold one million (the ratio is 1 / 30), on 45 million PCs in the U.S. alone (Baker, 1996).

At the end of 1990 the company has 4,037 employees and revenues of $ 804,530,000. Microsoft products are translated into 13 languages, including Arabic, Chinese, Hebrew, Japanese and Korean. Exit the version Windows 3.0, the first in the standings from the first day ...