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2More Personal ComputingPrice324
3WindowsOSShares7473Q422
4XboxGamesMC2421252
5BingCash106605Q422
6SurfaceDebt48116Q422
7EV2362763
8Edge?
9Founded1975
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11Productivity & Business ProcessesIntelligent CloudCEOSatya Nadella
12OfficeAzureCFOAmy Hood
13Outlook, Excel, PowerpointServerCAOAlice Jolla
14LinkedInSocial Network: 900m membersDeputy GCKeith Dolliver
15DynamicsCRMOpenAI?VP IRBrett Iversen
16Security: $20B business!?
17TeamsViva (Yammer replacement)Defender, Sentinel
18GitHub?
19Visual Studio?
20ClipchampCreate
21Loop (Notion ripoff)Power Pages (no code)
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234/26/22: FQ322 results
242014: Acquires Nokia phones for $9.5B. Satya replaces Ballmer.
252008: Acquires Aquantive for $8B, proposes to acquire Yahoo.
261994: Planned merger of Intuit.
271991: MS-DOS 5.0. DOS was installed on 75% of all computers at that point (60m PCs)
281987: Excel for Windows introduced.
291986: IPO on 3/13/1986, $61m.
301985: Excel for Macintosh introduced.
311983: Microsoft Word for DOS released. Microsoft Flight Simulator. Microsoft Press founded.
321981: Converts from partnership to corporation. DOS released.
331980: Enters OS market with UNIX license "XENIX". IBM deal for MS-DOS. Releases "SoftCard", hardware product for Apple II. $8m revenue. BASIC for Atari in development. 86-QDOS created by Seattle Computer. Bob O'Rear. Marla Wood, Steve Wood left the company. Steve Ballmer joins in June as employee 30. 28 programmers, Gates and a secretary.
341979: Establishes consumer products division with Vern Raburn: Typing Tutor and Adventure. $4m revenue. Steve Smith joins in July, just before Raburn as Marketing Director. Xerox $150k customer. CBASIC from Digital became a competitor.
351978: Nearly $1m in revenue by 1978.
361977: Terminates MITS license agreement. FORTRAN, 6800, 6502 but not 8080 BASIC. MITS/Pertec litigation returns BASIC to Microsoft. COBOL released. Tandy & Apple sign BASIC deals.
371976: 4K, 8K, Extended, ROM and Disk BASIC. NCR and GE purchased BASIC. $200,000 revenue.
381975: Microsoft founded, signed MITS BASIC deal for $3,000 upfront, with royalties capped at $180,000.