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    Microsoft Corporation is an American technology company headquartered in Redmond, Washington. It develops software like Windows, Office, and Edge as well as consumer electronics such as the Xbox and Surface. Microsoft ranked #21 on the 2020 Fortune 500 and is considered one of the largest software and technology companies in the world along with Google, Apple, Amazon, and Facebook. It was founded in 1975 by Bill Gates and Paul Allen and rose to dominance with MS-DOS and Windows operating systems.

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    Microsoft Corporation is an American technology company headquartered in Redmond, Washington. It develops software like Windows, Office, and Edge as well as consumer electronics such as the Xbox and Surface. Microsoft ranked #21 on the 2020 Fortune 500 and is considered one of the largest software and technology companies in the world along with Google, Apple, Amazon, and Facebook. It was founded in 1975 by Bill Gates and Paul Allen and rose to dominance with MS-DOS and Windows operating systems.

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    Microsoft Corporation is an American technology company headquartered in Redmond, Washington. It develops software like Windows, Office, and Edge as well as consumer electronics such as the Xbox and Surface. Microsoft ranked #21 on the 2020 Fortune 500 and is considered one of the largest software and technology companies in the world along with Google, Apple, Amazon, and Facebook. It was founded in 1975 by Bill Gates and Paul Allen and rose to dominance with MS-DOS and Windows operating systems.

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    Microsoft Corporation 

    is an American multinational technology company with headquarters


    in Redmond, Washington. It develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells computer
    software, consumer electronics, personal computers, and related services. Its best known software
    products are the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems, the Microsoft Office suite, and
    the Internet Explorer and Edge web browsers. Its flagship hardware products are the Xbox video
    game consoles and the Microsoft Surface lineup of touchscreen personal computers. Microsoft
    ranked No. 21 in the 2020 Fortune 500 rankings of the largest United States corporations by total
    revenue;[3] it was the world's largest software maker by revenue as of 2016.[4] It is considered one of
    the Big Five companies in the U.S. information technology industry, along
    with Google, Apple, Amazon, and Facebook.
    Microsoft (the word being a portmanteau of "microcomputer software"[5]) was founded by Bill
    Gates and Paul Allen on April 4, 1975, to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800. It
    rose to dominate the personal computer operating system market with MS-DOS in the mid-1980s,
    followed by Microsoft Windows. The company's 1986 initial public offering (IPO), and subsequent
    rise in its share price, created three billionaires and an estimated 12,000 millionaires among
    Microsoft employees. Since the 1990s, it has increasingly diversified from the operating system
    market and has made a number of corporate acquisitions, their largest being the acquisition
    of LinkedIn for $26.2 billion in December 2016,[6] followed by their acquisition of Skype
    Technologies for $8.5 billion in May 2011.[7]
    As of 2015, Microsoft is market-dominant in the IBM PC compatible operating system market and
    the office software suite market, although it has lost the majority of the overall operating system
    market to Android.[8] The company also produces a wide range of other consumer and enterprise
    software for desktops, laptops, tabs, gadgets, and servers, including Internet search (with Bing), the
    digital services market (through MSN), mixed reality (HoloLens), cloud computing (Azure), and
    software development (Visual Studio).
    Steve Ballmer replaced Gates as CEO in 2000, and later envisioned a "devices and services"
    strategy.[9] This unfolded with Microsoft acquiring Danger Inc. in 2008,[10] entering the personal
    computer production market for the first time in June 2012 with the launch of the Microsoft Surface
    line of tablet computers, and later forming Microsoft Mobile through the acquisition of Nokia's
    devices and services division. Since Satya Nadella took over as CEO in 2014, the company has
    scaled back on hardware and has instead focused on cloud computing, a move that helped the
    company's shares reach its highest value since December 1999.[11][12]
    Earlier dethroned by Apple in 2010, in 2018 Microsoft reclaimed its position as the most valuable
    publicly traded company in the world.[13] In April 2019, Microsoft reached the trillion-dollar market cap,
    becoming the third U.S. public company to be valued at over $1 trillion
    after Apple and Amazon respectively.[14] As of 2020, Microsoft has the third-highest global brand
    valuation.[15]

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