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Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational computer technology corporation with 76,000 employees in 102 countries and global annual revenue of US $44.28 billion. It develops, manufactures, licenses and supports a wide range of software products for computing devices.

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Originally founded to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800, Microsoft rose to dominate the home computer operating system market with MS-DOS in the mid-1980s. The company released an initial public offering (IPO) in the stock market, which, due to the ensuing rise of the stock price, has made four billionaires and an estimated 12,000 millionaires from Microsoft employees. Throughout its history the company has been the target of criticism for various reasons, including monopolistic business practices—both the U.S. Justice Department and the European Commission, among others, brought Microsoft to court for antitrust violations and software bundling.

Microsoft has footholds in other markets besides operating systems and office suites, with assets such as the MSNBC cable television network, the MSN Internet portal, and the Microsoft Encarta multimedia encyclopedia. The company also markets both computer hardware products such as the Microsoft mouse and home entertainment products such as the Xbox, Xbox 360, Zune and MSN TV. Gates left Harvard University, moved to Albuquerque, New Mexico where MITS was located, and founded Microsoft there. The company's first international office was founded on November 1, 1978, in Japan, entitled "ASCII Microsoft" (now called "Microsoft Japan"). The company expanded into new markets with the release of the Microsoft Mouse in 1983, as well as a publishing division named Microsoft Press. On March 13, the company went public with an IPO, priced at US $28.00 by the end of the trading day. In 1987, Microsoft eventually released their first version of OS/2 to OEMs.
In 1989, Microsoft introduced its most successful office product, Microsoft Office. This was a bundle of separate office productivity applications, such as Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel. The new version of Microsoft's operating system boasted such new features as streamlined user interface graphics and improved protected mode capability for the Intel 386 processor; it sold over 100,000 copies in two weeks. Windows at the time generated more revenue for Microsoft than OS/2, and the company decided to move more resources from OS/2 to Windows. In the ensuing years, the popularity of OS/2 declined, and Windows quickly became the favored PC platform.

During the transition from MS-DOS to Windows, the success of Microsoft's product Microsoft Office allowed the company to gain ground on application-software competitors, such as WordPerfect and Lotus 1-2-3."

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  1. “ Microsoft SharePoint is an important component of many enterprise solutions. ”
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  2. “ Microsoft is releasing some really awesome improvements in C# 3.0 ”
    Jennifer Greene in Head First C#--New from O’Reilly Media: There’s never been a ...
  3. “ Just sitting here in my office at Microsoft, looking around, I'm surrounded by young CMU researchers we've hired because they're the best and the brightest in AI. ”
    Eric Horvitz in CMU at forefront in building thinking machines

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    Explore Article cmswire.com (Jul 20 2010) Machine Translation

    SDL Acquires Language Weaver, Adds Statistical Machine Translation to Portfolio ...e Team Development For Sitecore Web CMS (1 comment) Get SharePoint 2010 Up and Running with VM from Microsoft (2 comments) How to Measure Enterprise CMS ROI and Minimize Negative Influences (1 comment) Ephox U... (Read Full Article)

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  3. Semantic programming language

    Explore Article PatFT » Page 1 of 1 (Jul 20 2010)

    ...+.RTM., which isan application designed to facilitate software development and which was created by Microsoft Corporation of Redmond, Wash. The terms Microsoft.RTM. and Visual C++.RTM. are trademarks owned by Microsoft Corporation of Redmond, Wash.The semantically meaningful types in SPL are those types that participate in the m... (Read Full Article)

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  4. Rashid, Hey Award 2010 Microsoft Research Faculty Fellows During Faculty Summit

    Explore Article MSDN Blogs (Jul 13 2010)

    Rashid, Hey Award 2010 Microsoft Research Faculty Fellows During Faculty Summit ...tachniss. (Photo by Michael Nakamura) This morning, on the second day of Faculty Summit 2010, we at Microsoft Research are proud to announce seven of the world's top university researchers as this year's awardees for t......lab at the University of Freiburg. When we asked Stachniss about his future plans, he replied: "The Microsoft grant allows me to react more flexibly on new developments and trends in robotics. I am considering... (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Microsoft   Berkeley   Rick Rashid

  5. One web, many tongues: Online translation

    Explore Article mydigitalfc.com (Jul 13 2010) Machine Translation

    ...the URL to see the results in your preferred language. Bing Translator (microsofttranslator.com) is Microsoft translator's webbased translation service for text and web pages, offering about 30 languages. No I... (Read Full Article)

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  6. Software tool for training and testing a knowledge base

    Explore Article PatFT » Page 1 of 1 (Jul 13 2010)

    ...as the source of the sample texts, including without limitation, comma separated value (CSV) files, Microsoft Excel (worksheet) files,and PST (Microsoft Outlook e-mail) files. In addition, the corpus file may be manually constructed (or modified) by en... (Read Full Article)

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  7. Microsoft Research Illuminates Night Sky and Mars in 3-D With WorldWide Telescope

    Explore Article PR Newswire (Jul 12 2010)

    ...y Summit. Download image REDMOND, Wash., July 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Today at the 11th annual Microsoft Research Faculty Summit, Microsoft Corp. announced the latest version of the WorldWide Telescope and unveiled the largest seamless spheri......the WorldWide Telescope and unveiled the largest seamless spherical map ever made of the night sky. Microsoft also released the most complete high-resolution coverage of Mars available, provided through an ong... (Read Full Article)

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  8. Microsoft Research Illuminates Night Sky and Mars in 3-D with WorldWide Telescope

    Explore Article Microsoft Corporation (Jul 12 2010)

    ...esearch grants at annual Faculty Summit. REDMOND, Wash. — July 12, 2010 — Today at the 11th annual Microsoft Research Faculty Summit, Microsoft Corp. announced the latest version of the WorldWide Telescope and unveiled the largest seamless spherica......More information about the Faculty Fellows program and how to apply can be found at http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/collaboration/awards/msrff.aspx. About Microsoft Research Founded in 1991, Microsoft Research is dedicated to conducting both basic and applied research ... (Read Full Article)

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  9. Overtone® Introduces OpenMic® Version 5.3 Featuring the Industry's First ...

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    ... simple social media monitoring for many of the world’s leading consumer brand companies including Microsoft, Yahoo!, and Continental Airlines. Overtone’s OpenMic delivers meaningful customer insights from un... (Read Full Article)

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  10. Overtone® Introduces OpenMic® Version 5.3 Featuring the Industrys First Hybrid Text Analysis Engine

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    ... simple social media monitoring for many of the world’s leading consumer brand companies including Microsoft, Yahoo!, and Continental Airlines. Overtone’s OpenMic delivers meaningful customer insights from un... (Read Full Article)

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  11. Stranger Than Fiction: Top 5 Tech Ideas That Sci-Fi Movies Got Right

    Explore Article myGLOSS.com (Jul 6 2010)

    Stranger Than Fiction: Top 5 Tech Ideas That Sci-Fi Movies Got Right ...cessing capabilities this fall as a contestant on Jeopardy!, Â while recently leaked documents from Microsoft supposedly include plans for home PCs capable of facial recognition. Flying cars are a sci-fi stapl... (Read Full Article)

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  12. The winners of the Microsoft Innovation Competition visited the Prime Minister

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    The winners of the Microsoft Innovation Competition visited the Prime Minister Greek Reporter (blog)The winners of the Microsoft Innovation Competition visited the Prime MinisterGreek Reporter (blog)The machine is based on the n... (Read Full Article)

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  13. Cadence management of translated multi-speaker conversations using pause marker relationship models

    Explore Article PatFT » Page 1 of 1 (Jul 6 2010)

    ...scussed herein.There are several types of digital audio computer file formats in use today. IBM and Microsoft created the "WAVE" file format which has become a standard personal computer audio file format, fro... (Read Full Article)

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  14. Evri's Evolution From Search to Real-Time News Curation

    Explore Article ReadWriteWeb (Jul 5 2010) Semantic

    Evri's Evolution From Search to Real-Time News Curation When semantic recommendations service Evri launched two years ago , the product (backed by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen) was seen by many as a type of search engine. Nowadays, Evri models itself as... (Read Full Article)

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  15. Business method using the automated processing of paper and unstructured electronic documents

    Explore Article PatFT » Page 1 of 1 (Jun 29 2010) Summarization

    ...s documents and the like that exist in digital form, including documents, papers and forms, such as Microsoft.RTM. .doc documents and in other proprietary document formats, and the use of such are included wit... (Read Full Article)

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  16. Getting The Message

    Explore Article irishtimes.com (Jun 24 2010) Machine Translation

    ...in Dublin City University with academic partners UCD, UL and TCD, and with industry partners IBM, Microsoft, Symantec, Dai Nippon Printing (Japan), and SDL as well as key Irish SMEs, Alchemy, VistaTEC, Speec... (Read Full Article)

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