History of Microsoft and services provided by Microsoft
In this blog we will get some information about bill gates and his foundation bill and Melinda gates.
We will see the history of Microsoft and the founders of Microsoft. We will also get some information about the product and services of Microsoft. There is no doubt that Microsoft is one of the top companies in the world.
Microsoft company
Microsoft is an American technology Company which was founded in 1975.
Microsoft manufactures and sells computers. Microsoft sells licenses for using Windows operating software.
Microsoft has headquarters in New Mexico, United States. Microsoft is currently serving in all the countries in the world.
The current chairman of Microsoft is John.W.Thompson.
Microsoft history
Before knowing the history of Microsoft Let's acquire some information about the founder of Microsoft.
William Henry Gates 3 popularly known as Bill Gates is an American businessman, investor and philanthropist.
Many people recognise him because he is a co-founder of Microsoft.
William Henry Gates 3 was born on 28 october 1955. Currently Bill Gates or William Henry Gates three age of 64.
Bill gates family
William Henry gates 3 spouse name is melinda gates.
William Henry gates the father name was William Henry gates two famously known as bill gates Sr and William Henry gates three mother name was Mary Maxwell.
Bill and Melinda gates foundation
This is a non profit organization which was founded by Bill gates and his wife melinda gates.
This foundation previously known as William Henry gates foundation listed it was changed to Bill and Melinda gates foundation.
This foundation provides education to poor kids and provides financial support.
In 2018 Bill and Melinda Gates donated 36 billion to Bill and Melinda gates foundation. In 2010 Warren Buffett donated 10 million shares of Berkshire Hathaway which were valued at 3000 dollars per share.
William Henry gates three
• William Henry Gates three is a chairman and founder of a branded entertainment network.
• William Henry gates three is a chairman and co-founder of Terra power.
• William Henry Gates three is technical advisor of Microsoft.
Microsoft history
The Microsoft founders bill gates and Paul Allen were childhood friends and they both were interested in computer programming. The name Microsoft was suggested by co-founder of Microsoft Paul Allen.
Microsoft operating software windows was released in November 1985, from 1985 to 2020 most of the computers prefer windows as operating software because it offers a lot of features.
Windows is far better than any other competitors in the market that's why most of the people prefer Windows as an operating software.
Microsoft office, Microsoft word and Microsoft Excel were introduced in 1990. In 2000, Bill Gates stepped down as chief executive officer (CEO) of Microsoft and Steve Ballmer became the CEO of Microsoft.
In 2007 Microsoft started producing smartphones, however Microsoft failed to compete with top smartphone producers like Apple and Google.
Most of the people were already using Apple smartphones and Apple smartphones already had a lot of features so that's why it became so difficult for Microsoft to compete with Apple smartphones.
In 2014, Steve Ballmer stepped down as a chief executive officer (CEO) officer of Microsoft and Satya Nadella became the New CEO of Microsoft. Satya Nadella is still serving as a CEO of Microsoft.
Products of Microsoft
1. Windows
2. Servers
3. Skype
4. Visual studio
5. Surface
6. Mobile
Services provided by Microsoft
Azure
Microsoft cloud computing service which was named as Azure. This platform provides platform as a service (Paas), software as a service (Saas) and it also provides infrastructure as a service (Iaas).
Bing
Same like Google search engine, Bing is also a web search engine operated by Microsoft. You can even search images and videos in Bing. It was launched in June 2009.
Incase if you have a question like why Bing is named as Bing?. Bing was named by Microsoft because this word can be remembered easily and it is so easy to spell anyone can pronounce this word.
Although Bing is far behind then Google search engine but still many people use Bing in the United States.
LinkedIn is an employment oriented online service which can be through a website or using mobile application.
LinkedIn is primarily used to build the network, it is mostly used by job seekers.
LinkedIn was fully owned by Microsoft in December 2016. LinkedIn has helped many job seekers to get their dream job.
Many companies hired employees who posted their CV's on LinkedIn. It was launched in 2003.
Melissa selcher is a chief marketing officer of LinkedIn and chief technology officer of LinkedIn is Raghu hiremagalur. Steve sordello is a chief financial officer of LinkedIn.
Summary
In this blog we have acquired some information about Bill and Melinda Gates foundation, Microsoft history and services provided by Microsoft.
Microsoft is one of the leading companies in the world with a market capitalisation of one trillion dollars.
