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; it was the world's largest software maker by revenue as of 2016 and is considered one of the domestic Big Five technology companies.
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Microsoft | Introduction
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system requirements for windows 10 pro 32 bit
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7 GB of disk space, The 64-bit variants require a CPU, USB flash drive etc
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who is the developer of this operating system?
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Microsoft
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when was this 10 version first released to the public?
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July 29, 2015
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on what devices can this operating system be installed?
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PCs, tablets, smartphones, embedded systems, Xbox One, Surface Hub and Mixed Reality.
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what are some of the special features of this system?
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Microsoft Edge web browser,  a virtual desktop system, Task View, support for fingerprint and face recognition login are some of them.
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what are some of the editions of this system?
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Windows 10 Home and Windows 10 Pro are some them.
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name a few patch updates which were released for the system?
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Sorry. I cannot find the answer based on the context.
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you had mentioned the developer's name earlier, where is the developer headquartered?
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In 2016, the company bought the 32-acre campus, with plans to renovate and expand it by 25%. Microsoft operates an East Coast headquarters in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Microsoft | Headquarters
Microsoft Japan, officially , is a subsidiary of Microsoft based in Japan. Their headquarters are at Shinagawa district of Tokyo.
Microsoft Japan | Introduction
Microsoft Corporation is a multinational corporation based in Redmond, Washington, USA and founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing. Due to the scope and size of the company, it encompasses a broad range of topics mostly revolving around critical analysis and the company's products and services.
Outline of Microsoft | Introduction
Advanced's head office, is located in Slough, Berkshire, with offices in Birmingham, Leeds, Gateshead, Ashford, Knutsford, Castleford and Willerby. The US head office is located in Atlanta, Georgia. Advanced also have offices in Bangalore and Baroda in Gujarat, India which is where the primary Development function is located.
Advanced Computer Software | Locations
Microsoft was established in 1990, and is the largest campus of Microsoft in India. It houses Microsoft's biggest research and development facility outside the United States. Microsoft's offices in India are in Hyderabad, Bangalore, Delhi, Pune and Mumbai.
Microsoft India (R&amp;D) Pvt Ltd | Introduction
In July 2013, the company also won the Microsoft BizSpark People's Choice Award, at the Microsoft BizSpark Euro Summit in Berlin. As of October 2013, the website's offices are in Poland; however, founder and CEO Dawid Piaskowski said in a June 2013 interview with the Los Angeles Times that its owners were contemplating a move of its headquarters to the United States, either to New York City or to California, before the end of 2013. Also as of October 2013, roughly 45% of the site's visitors come from the United States; other countries where the website is growing in popularity include Poland, Belgium, Canada, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Germany, and Egypt.
BookLikes | Introduction
He poked fun at the apparent visual similarities and referenced a 2004 WWDC banner that read, "Redmond, start your photocopiers" — a reference to Microsoft headquarters, which is located in Redmond, Washington. He also spoke at WWDC 2009 and gave an in-depth demonstration of Snow Leopard, which included further references to Microsoft's Windows operating system — claiming that Windows 7 is just another version of their widely criticized Vista release, citing the ongoing use of the Windows Registry, DLLs, the User Account Control (UAC) subsystem and existence of an interactive disk defragmenter.
Bertrand Serlet | Career
Located in Hyderabad, the Microsoft India Development Center (MSIDC) is Microsoft’s largest software development center outside of their headquarters in Redmond, Washington. The MSIDC teams focus on strategic and IP sensitive software product development.
Microsoft India | Microsoft India Development Center
The corporate headquarters, informally known as the Microsoft Redmond campus, is located at One Microsoft Way in Redmond, Washington. Microsoft initially moved onto the grounds of the campus on February 26, 1986, weeks before the company went public on March 13. The headquarters has since experienced multiple expansions since its establishment. It is estimated to encompass over 8 million ft (750,000 m) of office space and 30,000–40,000 employees. Additional offices are located in Bellevue and Issaquah, Washington (90,000 employees worldwide). The company is planning to upgrade its Mountain View, California, campus on a grand scale. The company has occupied this campus since 1981.
Microsoft | Headquarters
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; it was the world's largest software maker by revenue as of 2016 and is considered one of the domestic Big Five technology companies.
Microsoft | Introduction
Microsoft India Development Center is one of Microsoft's largest R&D centers outside the Redmond headquarters, Washington state. Set up in Hyderabad in 1998. Then Chief minister N. Chandrababu Naidu arranged a meeting with Bill Gates founder of Microsoft and discussed about the infrastructure provided and human resources availability in the state while managed him to build their sprawling 54 acres Microsoft campus of LEED Gold Certification for one of its buildings in hyderabad. The Microsoft Corporation is the first multinational company to build a research and development center in Cyberabad.
HITEC City | R & D center
On September 7, 2007 FAST informed investors in their quarterly update that the predicted losses for Q3 would rise again to over $60M and that they would be concentrating remaining resources on the 'Monetization' or ad serving business served by their Ad Momentum platform. The defocussing on their older areas and concentration on their new market area was welcomed by the financial market.
Microsoft Development Center Norway | More recent developments
The Microsoft campus is the informal name of Microsoft's corporate headquarters, located in Redmond, Washington, United States, a part of the Seattle metropolitan area. Microsoft initially moved onto the grounds of the campus on February 26, 1986, shortly before going public on March 13. The headquarters has undergone multiple expansions since its establishment and is presently estimated to encompass over of office space and have over 50,000 employees. Additional offices in the Eastside suburbs of Seattle are located in Bellevue and Issaquah. Building 92 on the campus contains a visitor center (with interactive exhibits) and store that are open to the public.
Microsoft Redmond campus | Introduction
The 2017 Build conference took place at the Washington State Convention Center in Downtown Seattle, Washington from May 10 to May 12, 2017. It had been at Moscone Center for the previous four years. However, Moscone center was undergoing renovations from April through August 2017. The Seattle location brought the conference close to the Microsoft headquarters in Redmond, Washington. The price remained at $2195 for the 2017 conference. There were no devices given away at this conference to attendees. Highlights:
Build (developer conference) | 2017
MS produces its products in the following locations:
Mjólkursamsalan | Manufacturing hubs
(later acquired by Yahoo!).
Microsoft Development Center Norway | 2000–2003: Commercialization
Microsoft released Microsoft Windows on November 20, 1985, as a graphical extension for MS-DOS, despite having begun jointly developing OS/2 with IBM the previous August. Microsoft moved its headquarters from Bellevue to Redmond, Washington on February 26, 1986, and went public on March 13, with the resulting rise in stock making an estimated four billionaires and 12,000 millionaires from Microsoft employees. Microsoft released its version of OS/2 to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) on April 2, 1987. In 1990, the Federal Trade Commission examined Microsoft for possible collusion due to the partnership with IBM, marking the beginning of more than a decade of legal clashes with the government.
Microsoft | 1985–1994: Windows and Office
Held on Microsoft's campus in Redmond from October 30 to November 2, 2012, the 2012 edition of Build focused on the recently released Windows 8, along with Windows Azure and Windows Phone 8. Attendees received a Surface RT tablet with Touch Cover, a Nokia Lumia 920 smartphone, and 100GB of free SkyDrive storage.
Build (developer conference) | 2012
As such, the company developed games exclusive to the Windows and Xbox platforms. Its headquarters were located in Redmond, Washington, only a few miles from Microsoft Corporation's main campus. FASA was officially shut down on September 12, 2007 with only the Community Manager and Technical Support Manager positions remaining active to support their games. Microsoft subsequently licensed the rights to produce electronic adaptations of FASA games back to Weisman, who directed a venture called Smith & Tinker. Smith & Tinker closed down November 8, 2012.
FASA Studio | Introduction
On January 1, 1979, the company moved from Albuquerque to a new home in Bellevue, Washington, since it was hard to recruit top programmers to Albuquerque. Shortly before the move, eleven of the then-thirteen employees posed for the staff photo on the right.
History of Microsoft | 1975–1985: The founding of Microsoft
The company was founded in 2008 and launched its first products in 2008. The company is privately held. The company's headquarters are in Silicon Valley. Recent acclaims include "Microsoft Startup to Watch" "Startup of the Day" and finalist at the HYSTA Entrepreneur Boot Camp
Loqu8 | History and ownership
The event has been held at a large convention center, or purpose-built meeting space on the Microsoft Campus. The Keynote on the first day has been led by the Microsoft CEO addressing the press and developers. It has been the place to announce the general technology milestones for developers. There are breakout sessions conducted by engineers and program managers, most often Microsoft employees representing their particular initiatives. The keynote on the second day often includes deeper dives into technology. Thousands of developers and technologists from all over the world attend.
Build (developer conference) | Format
and Microsoft. Its executive director is Roland J. Cole, based in Indianapolis.
Software Patent Institute | Introduction
Microsoft adopted the so-called ""Pac-Man" Logo," designed by Scott Baker, in 1987. Baker stated "The new logo, in Helvetica italic typeface, has a slash between the "o" and "s" to emphasize the "soft" part of the name and convey motion and speed." Dave Norris ran an internal joke campaign to save the old logo, which was green, in all uppercase, and featured a fanciful letter "O", nicknamed the "blibbet", but it was discarded. Microsoft's logo with the tagline "Your potential. Our passion."—below the main corporate name—is based on a slogan Microsoft used in 2008. In 2002, the company started using the logo in the United States and eventually started a television campaign with the slogan, changed from the previous tagline of ""Where do you want to go today?"" During the private MGX (Microsoft Global Exchange) conference in 2010, Microsoft unveiled the company's next tagline, ""Be What's Next."" They also had a slogan/tagline "Making it all make sense." On August 23, 2012, Microsoft unveiled a new corporate logo at the opening of its 23rd Microsoft store in Boston, indicating the company's shift of focus from the classic style to the tile-centric modern interface, which it uses/will use on the Windows Phone platform, Xbox 360, Windows 8 and the upcoming Office Suites.
Microsoft | Logo
Microsoft Mobile's head office was Microsoft Talo in Keilaniemi, Espoo, Finland. The building was previously named Nokia House, and was part of Microsoft's acquisition of Nokia's device business, becoming Microsoft Mobile's headquarters in April 2014 and receiving its new name. It is now occupied by both Microsoft Finland and Tieto.
Microsoft Mobile | Headquarters
Microsoft Development Center Norway (before 2010 known as Fast Search & Transfer ASA (FAST)) is a Norwegian company based in Oslo. FAST focuses on data search technologies. It had offices located in Germany, Italy, Sri Lanka, France, Japan, the United Kingdom, the United States, Brazil, Mexico and other countries around the world. The company was founded in 1997. On April 24, 2008, Microsoft acquired FAST. FAST is now known as Microsoft Development Center Norway. FAST offered an enterprise search product, FAST ESP. ESP is a service-oriented architecture development platform which is geared towards production searchable indexes. It provided a flexible framework for creating ETL applications for efficient indexing of searchable content.
Microsoft Development Center Norway | Introduction
Microsoft Development Center Serbia (MDCS) is one of the several Microsoft's development centers in the world. MDCS was established in 2005, and at the time of its establishment it was the fifth such center in the world. It is located in Belgrade, Serbia, and as of July 2018 it employs around 200 developers. MDCS has several teams that are working on various Microsoft technologies, such as Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Office and Bing search engine.
Microsoft Development Center Serbia | Introduction
The Surface Hub was originally manufactured at a plant in Wilsonville, Oregon. In July 2017, however, Microsoft announced that it would be moving production to China and closing the plant in the following months, resulting in the loss of jobs for 124 workers.
Surface Hub | Manufacture
Microsoft India Private Limited is a subsidiary of American software company Microsoft Corporation, headquartered in Hyderabad, India. The company first entered the Indian market in 1990 and has since worked closely with the Indian government, the IT industry, academia and the local developer community to usher in some of the early successes in the IT market. Microsoft currently has offices in the 9 cities of Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad, Kochi, Kolkata, Mumbai, the NCR (New Delhi and Gurgaon) and Pune. Microsoft in India employs about 6,500 people and has six business units representing the complete Microsoft product portfolio.
Microsoft India | Introduction
Ireland became home to one of Microsoft's international production facilities in 1985, and on November 20 Microsoft released its first retail version of Microsoft Windows (Windows 1.0), originally a graphical extension for its MS-DOS operating system. In August, Microsoft and IBM partnered in the development of a different operating system called OS/2. OS/2 was marketed in connection with a new hardware design proprietary to IBM, the PS/2. On February 16, 1986, Microsoft relocated their headquarters to a corporate office campus in Redmond, Washington. Around one month later, on March 13, the company went public with an IPO, raising US$61 million at US$21.00 per share.
History of Microsoft | 1985–1994: Windows and Office
The beta was updated on September 14, 2006 in Beta 2 Technical Refresh (Beta2TR). It included an updated user interface, better accessibility support, improvements in the robustness of the platform, and greater functionality.
Microsoft Office 2007 | Development
The company is headquartered in Petersfield, Hampshire in the United Kingdom. In January 2008 the company opened its first overseas office in Sydney, Australia.
Really Simple Systems | Location
Microsoft's campus in Hyderabad is spread over an area of 54 acres, and is certified with LEED Gold NC Certification.
Microsoft India (R&amp;D) Pvt Ltd | Building
Build 2014 was held at the Moscone Center (West) in San Francisco from April 2 to April 4, 2014. Build attendees received a free Xbox One and a $500 Microsoft Store gift card. Highlights:
Build (developer conference) | 2014
Build 2013 was held from June 26 to June 28, 2013 at the Moscone Center (North and South) in San Francisco. The conference was primarily used to unveil the Windows 8.1 update for Windows 8. Each attendee received a Surface Pro, Acer Iconia W3 (the first 8-inch Windows 8 tablet) with a Bluetooth keyboard, one year of Adobe Creative Cloud and 100GB of free SkyDrive storage.
Build (developer conference) | 2013
Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN) was the division of Microsoft responsible for managing the firm's relationship with developers and testers, such as hardware developers interested in the operating system (OS), and software developers developing on the various OS platforms or using the API or scripting languages of Microsoft's applications. The relationship management is situated in assorted media: web sites, newsletters, developer conferences, trade media, blogs and DVD distribution. From January 2020, the website has been fully integrated with Microsoft Docs.
Microsoft Developer Network | Introduction
This change, announced internally to Microsoft employees on August 26, 2004, began in earnest in September, though it would take several more months before the new development process and build methodology would be used by all of the development teams. Several complaints came from individual developers, and Bill Gates himself, that the new development process was going to be prohibitively difficult to work within. Changes at the build labs also resulted in a period of several months where no builds of Longhorn were leaked onto the Internet.
Development of Windows Vista | Mid-2004 to Mid-2005: Development "reset"
By the Electronic Entertainment Expo 2011 in June 2011, Microsoft Game Studios was quietly renamed to Microsoft Studios. Later in 2011, Microsoft Studios acquired Twisted Pixel Games. In early December 2011, Microsoft Studios created Microsoft Casual Games, a division to revamp its past casual games for Windows (like "Windows Solitaire" and MSN Games) using more up-to-date software delivery platforms. In 2012, Phil Harrison, the former Sony worldwide studios head, joined Microsoft as head of Microsoft Studios Europe and IEB. Microsoft Studios acquired developer Press Play, known for developing "Tentacles" and "Max & the Magic Marker". They also announced a new development studio in London, England.
Xbox Game Studios | As Microsoft Studios (2011–2019)
Build 2011 was held from September 13 to September 16, 2011 in Anaheim, California. The conference heavily focused on Windows 8, Windows Server 2012 and Visual Studio 2012; their Developer Preview versions were also released during the conference. Attendees also received a Samsung tablet shipping with the Windows 8 "Developer Preview" build.
Build (developer conference) | 2011
The issues with customer non payment of bills by customers continued with $26M of debtors being written off.
Microsoft Development Center Norway | Q3 2007 Results
MSDN blogs is a series of Microsoft blogs hosted under codice_1 domain name. Some blogs are dedicated to a product – e.g. Visual Studio, Internet Explorer, PowerShell – or a version of a product – e.g. Windows 7, Windows 8 – while others belong to a Microsoft employee, e.g. Michael Howard or Raymond Chen.
Microsoft Developer Network | Blogs
Microsoft currently owns Voodoo Vince's rights.
Voodoo Vince | Developer
The first two Microsoft Stores opened within a week of the Windows 7 launch, in Scottsdale, Arizona, and Mission Viejo, California. Additional stores have since opened in California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Minnesota, Missouri, Texas, Virginia, and Washington. At the 2011 Professional Developers Conference, Microsoft announced that they intend to open 75 new stores in the next three years.
Microsoft Store | Introduction
Microsoft officially launched its work in Algeria in mid-2011. Their headquarters is located in Algiers. Microsoft is already preparing to launch its online entertaining system known as "Xbox Live" in Algeria at around late 2012 or early 2013.
Microsoft Algeria | History
On April 30, 2010 the company relocated its headquarters from Austin, TX to Dallas, TX. The software was developed using Ruby on Rails and hosted using cloud computing provided by Amazon Web Services.
OrgSync | Introduction
In the early 2000s the company moved its marketing center to Beijing, and expanded its operations to the national level. In 2005, Microsoft invested US$20 million in the company.
Inspur | Introduction
Microsoft is not standing still. It will improve its advertising.” Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer, then the firm’s executive vice president, acknowledged that the response to the campaign had been “chilly”.
Where do you want to go today? | Introduction
Prior to working for Microsoft, James was an associate professor at University of Wisconsin–Madison in the Computer Science department.
James Larus | Introduction
His team was also responsible for MSDN and TechNet online properties to enable a deep connection with the developer and IT professional audiences. In addition, Somasegar was the founder of Microsoft's India R&D efforts, and the executive sponsor for Microsoft's global development centers including the R&D efforts in China, India and Israel.
S. Somasegar | Microsoft
Bill Gates and Paul Allen, founders of Microsoft Corporation, attended the Lakeside School, a private middle and high school in Haller Lake, at the northern Seattle city limits. This turned out to have rather dramatic consequences for the entire Seattle area. Microsoft's first product, Microsoft BASIC, came out in 1976. The company was incorporated in New Mexico the same year. By 1978 sales exceeded one million dollars a year. In 1979, Microsoft moved its offices back to Redmond from Albuquerque, New Mexico—they had gone to New Mexico to be near a client who no longer dominated their business, Gates and Allen wanted to go back where they were from, and it was easier to entice quality programmers to the Seattle area than the deserts of New Mexico.
History of Seattle since 1940 | Silicon Forest: 1985–present
He then worked for Microsoft from 1979 to 1998. He developed the standards for the company's BASIC compiler line. "GW" in the name of the GW-BASIC dialect (first released 1983) of BASIC developed by Microsoft may have come from Greg Whitten's initials: "The GW-BASIC name stands for Gee-Whiz BASIC. The GW- name was picked by Bill Gates. He is the one who knows whether it was Gee-Whiz or after me because it has been used both ways. I did set the directions for the BASIC language features after joining the company in 1979." As a chief software architect, he also oversaw the development of the enterprise support systems required in Windows for the Microsoft Office.
Greg Whitten | Microsoft 1979–98
The Network Courier server development group became Microsoft Workgroup Vancouver, part of the Workgroup Computing Division of Microsoft, before being shut down, with its employees relocated to the main Microsoft campus in Redmond, Washington.
Consumers Software | Introduction
Microsoft held its press conference on June 14. Phil Spencer, vice president of Microsoft Studios, hosted the event for Kinect, and Hideo Kojima was a notable speaker.
E3 2010 | Microsoft
Microsoft hosted a press conference on June 9 at 9:30am. Trailers for "Forza Horizon 2", "Rise of the Tomb Raider", "Evolve", "", "Sunset Overdrive", "Project Spark", "Ori and the Blind Forest", "", "Scalebound", a new character for "Killer Instinct: Season 2", a "Phantom Dust" reboot and "Crackdown 3" were revealed. There was also gameplay footage of "Assassin's Creed Unity", "Call of Duty Advanced Warfare", "Sunset Overdrive", "" and "Tom Clancy's The Division". "", "Scalebound" and "Dance Central Spotlight" were announced as well.
E3 2014 | Microsoft
Known during development as Xbox Next, Xenon, Xbox 2, Xbox FS or NextBox, the Xbox 360 was conceived in early 2003. In February 2003, planning for the Xenon software platform began, and was headed by Microsoft's Vice President J Allard. That month, Microsoft held an event for 400 developers in Bellevue, Washington to recruit support for the system. Also that month, Peter Moore, former president of Sega of America, joined Microsoft. On August 12, 2003, ATI signed on to produce the graphic processing unit for the new console, a deal which was publicly announced two days later. Before the launch of the Xbox 360, several Alpha development kits were spotted using Apple's Power Mac G5 hardware.
Xbox 360 | Development
Microsoft, the developer of Windows, has registered several trademarks, each of which denotes a family of Windows operating systems that target a specific sector of the computing industry. As of 2014, the following Windows families were being actively developed: The following Windows families are no longer being developed:
Microsoft Windows | By marketing role
There are Microsoft Store retail locations throughout the US, seven in Canada, one in Sydney, Australia, and one in London, England. Microsoft Store formerly operated a store in Helsinki, Finland.
Microsoft Store | Retail locations
Allen worked on a simulator for the Altair while Gates developed the interpreter, and it worked flawlessly when they demonstrated it to MITS in March 1975 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. MITS agreed to distribute it, marketing it as Altair BASIC. Gates and Allen established Microsoft on April 4, 1975, with Gates as CEO, and Allen suggested the name "Micro-Soft", short for micro-computer software. In August 1977, the company formed an agreement with ASCII Magazine in Japan, resulting in its first international office of ASCII Microsoft. Microsoft moved its headquarters to Bellevue, Washington in January 1979. Microsoft entered the operating system (OS) business in 1980 with its own version of Unix called Xenix, but it was MS-DOS that solidified the company's dominance.
Microsoft | 1972–1985: Founding
Asche, Ken Lassesen, Nigel Thompson (a.k.a. Herman Rodent), Nancy Cluts, Paul Johns, Dennis Crain, and Ken Bergmann. Nigel Thompson was the development manager for Windows Multimedia Extensions that originally added multimedia capabilities to Windows. Renan Jeffreis produced the original system (Panda) to publish MSDN on the Internet and in HTML instead of the earlier multimedia viewer engine. Dale Rogerson, Nigel Thompson and Nancy Cluts all published MS Press books while on the MSDN team. As of August 2010, only Dennis Crain and Dale Rogerson remain employed by Microsoft.
Microsoft Developer Network | Dr GUI and the MSDN Writers Team
Several startups arose from the ashes, spearheaded by former employees, including Bonfire Studios, Newtoy, Windstorm Studios, Pixelocity, Fuzzy Cube, and GRL Games."
Tony Goodman | Microsoft Years
This is a history of Microsoft Office and its versions. This table only includes final releases and not pre-release or beta software.
History of Microsoft Office | Introduction
Microsoft and ExxonMobil have their Japanese headquarters in Konan, Minato, near Shinagawa.
Shinagawa | Other offices
Each year for the North American event changes to a new location.
Microsoft Ignite | North America
Microsoft Systems Journal was a 1986-founded bi-monthly Microsoft magazine.
Microsoft Developer Network | Microsoft Systems Journal
Microsoft Build (often stylised as ) is an annual conference event held by Microsoft, aimed at software engineers and web developers using Windows, Microsoft Azure and other Microsoft technologies. First held in 2011, it serves as a successor for Microsoft's previous developer events, the Professional Developers Conference (an infrequent event which covered development of software for the Windows operating system) and MIX (which covered web development centering on Microsoft technology such as Silverlight and ASP.net). The attendee price was (US)$2,195 in 2016, up from $2,095 in 2015. It sold out quickly, within one minute of the registration site opening in 2016.
Build (developer conference) | Introduction
In January 2018, Microsoft patched Windows 10 to account for CPU problems related to Intel's Meltdown security breach. The patch led to issues with the Microsoft Azure virtual machines reliant on Intel's CPU architecture. On January 12, Microsoft released PowerShell Core 6.0 for the macOS and Linux operating systems. In February 2018, Microsoft killed notification support for their Windows Phone devices which effectively ended firmware updates for the discontinued devices. In March 2018, Microsoft recalled Windows 10 S to change it to a mode for the Windows operating system rather than a separate and unique operating system. In March the company also established guidelines that censor users of Office 365 from using profanity in private documents.
Microsoft | 2014–present: Windows 10, Microsoft Edge and HoloLens
Some of them would later work for Microsoft.
Seattle Computer Products | Introduction
Brodie left Microsoft after the company went public in 1986, but returned in 1991 as Chief Software Designer and Lead Developer of the Omega project, which would be released as Microsoft Access in 1992. He left Microsoft again in 1994.
Richard Brodie (programmer) | Microsoft
Visual J++, InterDev, and the MSDN Library had all been using the same 'environment', called Developer Studio. Visual Studio was also sold as a bundle with the separate IDEs used for Visual C++, Visual Basic and Visual FoxPro.
Microsoft Visual Studio | 97
Microsoft's first retail store was located in the Metreon in San Francisco. It was owned and operated by Sony Retail Entertainment and ran from 1999 to 2001. In 2009, Microsoft built a "Retail Experience Center" in their Redmond, Washington headquarters and announced plans to build its own retail stores. On October 22, 2009, the same day as the Windows 7 launch, Microsoft opened a retail store in Scottsdale, Arizona. A week later, another opened in Mission Viejo, California. Five additional stores were opened in 2010. A ninth store opened in Atlanta in May 2011, with two more openings planned in Houston and Los Angeles by the end of June.
Microsoft Store | History
The first beta of Microsoft Office 2007, referred to as "Beta-1" in emails sent to a small number of testers, was released on November 16, 2005. The Beta-1 Technical Refresh was released to testers on March 13, 2006. The Technical Refresh fixed issues in installing with Windows Vista build 5308. Microsoft revealed the ribbon on March 9, 2006 at CeBIT in Germany. Office 2007 Beta 2 was announced by Bill Gates at WinHEC 2006, and was initially released to the public at no cost from Microsoft's web site. However, because of an unprecedented number of downloads, a fee of $1.50 was introduced for each product downloaded after August 2, 2006.
Microsoft Office 2007 | Development
They eventually produced two game prototypes, both displayed in the Stanford student union building, but never produced the game commercially due to the high cost of the cabinet.
Computer Space | Location tests and release
A typical build label would look like "Longhorn Build 3663.Lab06_N.020728-1728". Higher build numbers didn't automatically mean that the latest features from every development team at Microsoft were included. Typically, a team working on a certain feature or subsystem would generate their working builds which developers would test with, and when the code was deemed stable, all the changes would be incorporated back into the main development tree at once. At Microsoft, several "Build labs" exist where the compilation of the entirety of Windows can be performed by a team. The lab in which any given build originated is shown as part of the build label, and the date and time of the build follow that.
Development of Windows Vista | 2001-2002: Early development
Developing the game precipitated some changes for its developers, Sega AM2, who had historically written their games using Unix systems. Writing for an Xbox-based system meant they had to adapt to the Microsoft Windows kernel.
OutRun 2 | Development
On February 9, 2016, Microsoft retracted this decision and began to provide release notes for cumulative updates on the Windows website.
Windows 10 | Update system changes
Cautious users, particularly system administrators, tend to put off applying patches until they can verify the stability of the fixes. Microsoft (W)SUS supports this. In the cases of large patches or of significant changes, distributors often limit availability of patches to qualified developers as a beta test.
Patch (computing) | Application
The book takes place first at Microsoft in Redmond, Washington (near Seattle) and then Silicon Valley (near San Francisco). The time period is 1993–1995, at a time when Microsoft has reached dominance in the software industry and emerged victorious from the "Look & Feel" lawsuit by Apple Inc., a company that had at times seemed in danger of falling apart. The Northridge earthquake takes place during the story and has a profound effect on Ethan, who eventually constructs a replica highway interchange out of Lego pieces to honor the infrastructure destroyed by the earthquake.
Microserfs | Allusions to history, geography, and science
Xbox Game Studios (previously known as Microsoft Studios, Microsoft Game Studios, and Microsoft Games) is an American video game publisher and division of Microsoft based in Redmond, Washington. It was established in March 2000, spun out from an internal Games Group, for the development and publishing of video games for Microsoft Windows. It has since expanded to include games and other interactive entertainment for the namesake Xbox platforms, Windows Mobile and other mobile platforms, and web-based portals. As the studio grew, it has acquired and relinquished ownership of several other studios, and is the parent organization of fifteen other studios.
Xbox Game Studios | Introduction
At the 2016 Build conference, it was announced that all Xbox One consoles could be updated to include a development kit for universal Windows applications on Xbox One, with official support for the platform and Cortana coming in summer 2016.
Xbox One system software | Development
The company almost quadrupled its revenues from 2003 (US$42M) to 2006 ($162M). FAST acquired Convera's RetrievalWare in August 2007 for US$23 million.
Microsoft Development Center Norway | 2004–2007: Expansion
The company moved from Albuquerque to Bellevue, Washington on January 1, 1979. Gates said he personally reviewed and often rewrote every line of code that the company produced in its first five years. As the company grew he transitioned into a manager role, then an executive.
Bill Gates | BASIC
Following the release of Windows Phone, Microsoft undertook a gradual rebranding of its product range throughout 2011 and 2012, with the corporation's logos, products, services and websites adopting the principles and concepts of the Metro design language. Microsoft unveiled Windows 8, an operating system designed to power both personal computers and tablet computers, in Taipei in June 2011. A developer preview was released on September 13, which was subsequently replaced by a consumer preview on February 29, 2012, and released to the public in May. The Surface was unveiled on June 18, becoming the first computer in the company's history to have its hardware made by Microsoft.
Microsoft | 2011–2014: Windows 8/8.1, Xbox One, Outlook.com, and Surface devices
Microsoft's press conference took place on June 4 at 9:30am in the Galen Center. It was known as "Xbox: Entertainment Evolved," in the vein of "". It was streamed on Xbox Live and played live on SPIKE TV. At the conference the company showed footage from upcoming sequels "Halo 4", "", and "Resident Evil 6". It also showed new entries in classic franchises, including the games "Tomb Raider", "Forza Horizon", "", and many others. It also announced new intellectual property, including "" and "LocoCycle". The company expanded its Kinect lineup with several new titles. Entertainer Usher made an appearance to demonstrate the "Dance Central 3" dancing game.
E3 2012 | Microsoft
For example, Microsoft Musical Instruments was developed with Dorling Kindersley.
Microsoft Home | Titles
In the About Box, it calls itself "Microsoft Development Environment 7.0". It is a trimmed down version of Visual Studio .NET 2002 (7.0)'s IDE.
Microsoft Script Editor | Introduction
"CoDe Magazine" was started in 1999, by Rick Strahl and EPS Software’s President Markus Egger. The first three issues of the magazine were written in German, and originally published in Austria (then called "Software Developer Magazine"). Shortly after the original three issues were published, .NET technologies became a primary focus for the magazine as Microsoft was beginning to phase out Visual FoxPro. In 1999, "CoDe Magazine"’s parent company, EPS Software, moved its headquarters to Houston, where it is still located. EPS Software and "CODE" participate in community developer events and frequently support Code Camps, or code and development camps put on by the community to help promote software development.
Component Developer Magazine | History
International partners are Cornell University, University College Dublin and Dublin City University.
Microsoft Development Center Norway | Information Access Disruptions
Somasegar joined Microsoft Corporation in January 1989 as a software design engineer and had a career spanning almost 27 years as he rose through the ranks to be a senior vice president. Somasegar joined the Operating System group at Microsoft, working on OS/2, the early versions of NT and Windows – in all eight different releases of the Windows family of product. As the leader of developer division, Somasegar was responsible for engineering, marketing and evangelizing developer tools and services, programming languages and runtimes designed for a broad base of software developers and development teams, including the Visual Studio family of products, .NET Framework, and Team Foundation Server.
S. Somasegar | Microsoft
Microsoft is an American public multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions. Established on April 4, 1975 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, followed by the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems. Microsoft would also come to dominate the office suite market with Microsoft Office. The company has diversified in recent years into the video game industry with the Xbox, the Xbox 360, the Xbox One, and the Xbox Series X as well as into the consumer electronics and digital services market with Zune, MSN and the Windows Phone OS.
List of mergers and acquisitions by Microsoft | Introduction
MDCC or Microsoft Development Center Copenhagen was once the primary development center for Dynamics AX. MDCC is now located in Kongens Lyngby and also houses Microsoft Dynamics NAV and several other Microsoft Dynamics family products. Microsoft Denmark is also found in the same building. Microsoft employs about 900 people of around 40 different nationalities in Denmark. In addition to MDCC, Microsoft carries out AX development in Bellevue, Washington, Fargo, North Dakota, USA; Moscow, Russia; Shanghai, China; and Pakistan.
Microsoft Dynamics AX | Development centers
The original development team moved to Orlando, Florida, where it eventually came under the management of Dr. Ray Ferguson and focused on integration with VSE and matching features with CICS.
Westi | Orlando
Microsoft is a large developer of personal computer software. It is best known for its Windows operating system, the Microsoft Office family of productivity software plus services, and the Visual Studio IDE. The company also publishes books (through Microsoft Press) and video games (through Xbox Game Studios), and produces its own line of hardware. The following is a list of the notable Microsoft software applications.
List of Microsoft software | Introduction
2007 also saw the creation of a multi-core unit at Microsoft, following the steps of server companies such as Sun and IBM. Gates retired from his role as Chief Software Architect on June 27, 2008, a decision announced in June 2006, while retaining other positions related to the company in addition to being an advisor for the company on key projects. Azure Services Platform, the company's entry into the cloud computing market for Windows, launched on October 27, 2008. On February 12, 2009, Microsoft announced its intent to open a chain of Microsoft-branded retail stores, and on October 22, 2009, the first retail Microsoft Store opened in Scottsdale, Arizona; the same day Windows 7 was officially released to the public.
Microsoft | 2007–2011: Microsoft Azure, Windows Vista, Windows 7, and Microsoft Stores
By 2004, it had become obvious to the Windows team at Microsoft that they were losing sight of what needed to be done to complete the next version of Windows and ship it to customers. Internally, some Microsoft employees were describing the Longhorn project as "another Cairo" or "Cairo.NET", referring to the Cairo development project that the company embarked on through the first half of the 1990s, which never resulted in a shipping operating system (though nearly all the technologies developed in that time did end up in Windows 95 and Windows NT). Microsoft was shocked in 2005 by Apple's release of Mac OS X Tiger.
Windows Vista | Development reset
The following is a list of Microsoft written and published operating systems. For the codenames that Microsoft gave their operating systems, see Microsoft codenames. For another list of versions of Microsoft Windows, see, List of Microsoft Windows versions.
List of Microsoft operating systems | Introduction
In Brazil, it was also the first version to introduce the Registration Wizard, a precursor to Microsoft Product Activation. With this release, the accompanying apps, Project 98 and Publisher 98 also transitioned to fully 32-bit versions.
Microsoft Office | Microsoft Office 95 and 97
Microsoft developed the operating system on computers running NT daily builds. It was initially crash prone, but the immediate feedback of code breaking the build, the loss of pride, and the knowledge of impeding the work of others were all powerful motivators. Windows developers would typically dogfood or self-host Windows starting from the early (alpha) builds, while the rest of the employees would start from the more stable beta builds that were also available to MSDN subscribers. In 2005, "InfoWorld" reported that a tour of Microsoft's network operations center "showed pretty much beyond a reasonable doubt that Microsoft does run its 20,000-plus node, international network on 99 percent Windows technology, including servers, workstations, and edge security".
Eating your own dog food | Examples
By July 1986, Kukulsky was gone and the president of the company was co-founder Tilson. He had previously been serving as vice president of technical development at the company. The company divested itself of the business products, deciding to return its focus to system software and developers. By 1987, the official name of the company had changed to HCR Corporation. The headquarters office had moved as well, now being located a short distance away in a Bloor Street building in the Yorkville neighborhood of Toronto. The firm continued to have a visible presence in the Unix industry. Tilson gave talks at Unix-focused conferences, such as AUUG, about the importance and the future of Unix.
HCR Corporation | Change of name and another change in leadership
The following Microsoft services have been branded with the word "Live":
Microsoft Live | Introduction
Microsoft, now one of the world's largest software companies, was founded in 1975 when Paul Allen and Bill Gates came to Albuquerque to write software for the Altair. The company's headquarters remained in the city until 1979.
History of Albuquerque, New Mexico | 1960s and 70s