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Microsoft: A Technological Colossus Founded in 1975 by Bill Gates and Paul Allen, Microsoft's trajectory has been one of consistent expansion and market dominance. Initially focused on BASIC interpreters, the company rapidly ascended to control the personal computer operating system market with MS-D...
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- Company type Public
- Industry Information technology
- Founded April 4, 1975
- Founders Bill Gates, Paul Allen
- Headquarters One Microsoft Way, Redmond, Washington, U.S.
- Area served Worldwide
- Key people Satya Nadella (chairman &
- Services Edge, Azure, Bing, LinkedIn, Viva Engage, Microsoft 365, OneDrive, Dynamics 365, Outlook, GitHub, Microsoft Store, Windows Update, Game Pass, Xbox network
- Revenue US$245.1 billion (2024)
- Net income US$88.1 billion (2024)
- Number of employees 228,000 (2024)
- Subsidiaries Microsoft Japan, Microsoft India, Microsoft Egypt, GitHub, LinkedIn, Nuance Communications, RiskIQ, Skype Technologies, Xamarin, Xandr
- Website www.microsoft.com
Microsoft history
Last Updated : 24/03/25, 07:56 PM
Microsoft: From Altair BASIC to Global Tech Giant Founded in 1975 by childhood friends Bill Gates and Paul Allen, Microsoft initially focused on software development, creating Altair BASIC for the Altair 8800 microcomputer. Early success led to the development of Xenix, a Unix-based operating system...
MICROSOFT NEWS
Microsoft’s AI-powered new Bing is rapidly evolving: Latest features and updates
February 19, 2023 12:43 pm
From the implementation of new conversation limits to the potential inclusion of abilities to book flights and send emails, here's everything new and upcoming on the new AI-powered Bing.
Microsoft limits Bing chat to 50 questions per day after chatbot's unhinged behaviour
February 18, 2023 1:20 pm
Microsoft earlier acknowledged that Bing can turn repetitive and give unhelpful responses over very long chat sessions.
Microsoft's Bing plans AI ads in early pitch to advertisers
February 18, 2023 7:51 am
In a meeting with a major ad agency this week, Microsoft showed off a demo of the new Bing and said it plans to allow paid links within responses to search results, said an ad executive, who spoke about the private meeting on the condition of anonymity.
Microsoft partners with Parallels to bring Windows 11 ARM to Apple M1 and M2 Macs
February 17, 2023 12:23 pm
While most apps run fine on the ARM version, some games and anti-virus solutions may not be supported.
New Bing's AI-powered answers get 71% positive feedback, Microsoft plans to include new features
February 16, 2023 4:40 pm
Microsoft said that it has witnessed a phenomenal response to the newly launched AI-powered Bing and Edge browser.
How to move up the waitlist for Microsoft's AI-powered Bing
February 17, 2023 9:06 am
Here is how you can quickly access Microsoft's new AI-powered Bing search engine on your PC
We asked Microsoft's new Bing to debunk some common tech myths: Check out results
February 16, 2023 4:44 pm
Do the new Bing's ChatGPT-like abilities really make the search engine smart enough to debunk common myths?
From Microsoft's Tay to Yandex's Alice, AI chatbots that went rogue
February 16, 2023 10:11 am
ChatGPT may have garnered an overwhelmingly positive response, but not all of its kind were so lucky. Here's a look at the biggest AI chatbot fails seen in this decade and the last.
Microsoft's AI-powered Bing made several mistakes in its demo last week
February 15, 2023 9:43 am
Microsoft's Bing made several factual errors during its launch just like Google's Bard.
I used Microsoft’s Bing with ChatGPT-like AI tech: Here’s what I found out
February 21, 2023 11:31 am
I got early access to Microsoft's AI-fused Bing and here's what I think about the disruptive new search engine based on Open AI's ChatGPT technology.
