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Abstract

In the 1990 's , the Microsoft Corporation was one of the first software company and most highly respected software research organizations . For almost thirty-years Microsoft has fulfilled its vision of future computing for the ways people and companies want to work . Throughout those thirty years the company has made major success by changing technology in many ways

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Over the past decade , Microsoft has produced its best selling software devices for computer products such as Microsoft Windows operating system

br and the Microsoft Office suite . In 2007 , the Microsoft Corporation generated 51 .12 billion and its product market share estimated as 90 in 2003 for Microsoft Office and 2006 for Microsoft Windows . In the mid-1980 's , Microsoft dominated the home computer operating system and has been accused of being monopolistic , although considered a developer centric-business culture . The company 's website is one of the most visited on the World Wide Web having received more than 2 .4 million page views . In the founding years between 1975-1985 , Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems were founded in Albuquerque , New Mexico then later moved to Bellevue , Washington of January 1 , 1979 , and then Bill Gates succeeded as CEO in 1980

DOS (Disk Operating System ) had brought the company real success . In 1981 , IBM awarded a contract to Microsoft for providing a version of the CPM operating system that would become IBM Personal Computer . In the 1990 's , Microsoft rose and launched Windows 3 .0 . the new operating system introducing new features . Windows generated more revenue popularity , and became the favored PC . Then Microsoft went onto release Windows NT . 3 .1 and Windows 95 . Furthermore , it expanded its product line into computer networking and the World Wide Web

Then afterwards , MSN network became a major online service competing against AOL and went along with NBC to create a new 24 /7 cable news station MSNBC . In 2001 , Microsoft released Windows XP that changed the face of the old fashioned Windows . Then the Windows XP Home Edition and Windows Vista . Since the 1980 's , Microsoft has been the focus of much controversy in the computer industry . Most criticism has been for its business tactics , often described with the motto embrace , extend and extinguish ' Microsoft initially embraces a competition standard or product , then extends it to produce their own incompatible version of the software or standard , which in time extinguishes competition that does not or cannot use Microsoft 's new version (Rodger , 1998

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Reference

Rodger , Will . Intel exec : MS wanted to extend , embrace and extinguish competition (1998-11-08 . ZDNet News . Retrived on 2006-05-18...