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Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) 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.

Its most profitable products are Microsoft Office, which has come to dominate the commercial office suite market, and the Microsoft Windows operating system, which has achieved near ubiquity in the desktop computer market. The company has also diversified in recent years into the video game industry with the Xbox, its successor, the Xbox 360 and most recently the Xbox One as well as into the consumer electronics and digital services market with Bing, MSN and the Windows Phone OS.

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Windows 2000 is a business-oriented graphical operating system that was designed to work with either uniprocessor or symmetric multi-processor (SMP) 32-bit Intel x86 computers. It is part of the Microsoft Windows NT line of operating systems and was released on February 17 2000, but has since been superseded by newer Microsoft operating systems. Windows 2000 came in four versions: Professional, Server, Advanced Server, and Datacenter Server. Additionally, Microsoft offered Windows 2000 Advanced Server Limited Edition, which was released in 2001 and runs on 64-bit Intel Itanium microprocessors. Windows 2000 is preemptible and interruptible, and is classified as a hybrid kernel operating system, as its architecture is divided into user mode and kernel mode. The kernel mode provides unrestricted access to system resources and facilitates the user mode, which is heavily restricted and designed for most applications. All versions of Windows 2000 have common functionality, including many system utilities such as the Microsoft Management Console and standard system management applications such as a disk defragmentation utility.

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Steve Ballmer, the former chief executive officer of Microsoft from January 2000 to February 2014.

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2016

June 13: Microsoft announced an acquisition of LinkedIn for US$26.2B^[1]

October 26: Microsoft announces the Surface Studio and Surface Dial^[2]
November 2: Microsoft Teams, a cloud-based team collaboration tool, is launched as part of Office 365^[3]

2017

January 13: Microsoft acquired Canadian artificial intelligence company, Maluuba^[4]
May 1: Microsoft announces the first generation Surface Laptop and Windows 10 S, an operating system designed for schools which only supports software from the Windows Store^[5]
May 10: At Build 2017, Visual Studio is launched for macOS users^[6]
May 23: The fifth-generation Surface Pro is unveiled in Shanghai^[7]
June 1: The Skype applications are redesigned, in an attempt to appeal to a younger audience^[8]
June 12: Microsoft unveils the Xbox One X (also known as Project Scorpio) at E3 2017^[9]

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Bill Gates (correctly William Henry Gates III) (born October 28, 1955 in Seattle) is the co-founder, chairman, former chief software architect, and former CEO of Microsoft, the world's largest software company. According to Forbes magazine's list of The World's Billionaires, he was ranked as the richest person in the world for thirteen consecutive years, and recent estimates put his net worth near $82 billion dollars. When family wealth is considered, his family ranks second behind the Walton family. Gates is one of the best-known entrepreneurs of the personal computer revolution. Although he is widely respected by people who see his wealth as a product of intelligence and foresight, since amassing his fortune, Gates has pursued a number of philanthropic endeavors, donating large amounts of money to various charitable organizations and scientific research programs through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, established in 2000.

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Did you know...

... that Windows XP's default Bliss wallpaper was taken north of San Francisco in 1996?
... that Microsoft's revenues on Microsoft Office are in the range of $250 million USD a week?
... that Turing Award winner and long-time Microsoft Research technical fellow Jim Gray was lost at sea during a solo sailing trip?
... that Robert Fripp, founding member of King Crimson, helped create the system sounds for Windows Vista?
... that brand consultancy Millward Brown Optimor reported in 2006 that "Microsoft" is the most powerful brand name in the world?

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Bill Gates has a friend called Steve Jobs. The CEO of Apple. Sadly he passed away.

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Software: Windows • Office • Servers • Dynamics • Visual Studio • Money • Encarta • Defender• more…

Technology: Active Directory • DirectX • .NET • Internet Explorer • Microsoft Edge • Windows Media • PlaysForSure • more…

Web properties: Windows Live • Office Live • MSNBC • ninemsn • MSN • Hotmail • Messenger • Spaces • Groups • Live ID • Popfly

Gaming: Microsoft Game Studios • Zone • XNA • Xbox / 360 / One • Xbox Live (Arcade, Marketplace) • Games for Windows • Games for Windows - Live

Hardware: Zune • Keyboard • Natural Keyboard • Mouse • Webcam • MSN TV • SideWinder • Ultra-Mobile PC • Fingerprint • Audio System • Pocket PC • Smartphone • Microsoft Surface • Microsoft HoloLens

Education and recognition: MCPs • MSDN • MSDNAA • MSCA • Microsoft Press • Microsoft MVP • Studies related to Microsoft

Board of directors: Nadella • Cash • Dublon • Gates • Gilmartin • Marquardt • Noski • Panke • Shirley

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