Microsoft
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Microsoft is an American multinational computer technology corporation. It develops, manufactures, licenses and supports a wide range of software products for computing devices. Headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA, its best selling products are the Microsoft Windows operating system and the Microsoft Office suite of productivity software.
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- Don't bother trying to create a better commercial desktop OS -- it doesn't matter how hard you try, how many engineers you throw at the problem, how much money you spend, or how many years you put into it. Microsoft owns that space and, worse, the public is totally complicit with that fact. People will not stop using Windows. It is a losing battle.
- Scott Hacker, He Who Controls the Bootloader, BYTE Magazine, August 27, 2001
- Where do you want to go today?
- Microsoft slogan for 1994–2002 [Denounce article 'Microsoft to Drop Its "Where Do you Want to Go Today?" Campaign']
[edit] People associated with Microsoft
- Bill Gates
- Steve Ballmer, current Chief Executive Officer (since 2000)
- Ray Ozzie, former CTO, current Chief Software Architect (since 2006)