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| employees = 89,000 as of 7/30/10 <ref>[http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/snapshot/snapshot.asp?ticker=MSFT:US Employees]</ref>
| employees = 117,354 as of 6/30/15 <ref>[http://news.microsoft.com/facts-about-microsoft/#RevenueHeadcount Microsoft Revenue & Headcount. Retrieved 21 Jun 2016.]</ref>
| revenue = $ 62.5 billion (2010)<ref>[http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/financials/financials.asp?ticker=MSFT:US Revenue]</ref>
| revenue = $ $93.58B (2015)
| website = [http://www.microsoft.com www.microsoft.com]
| website = [http://www.microsoft.com www.microsoft.com]
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| linkedin = [http://www.linkedin.com/company/microsoft Microsoft]
| linkedin = [http://www.linkedin.com/company/microsoft Microsoft]
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| keypeople = [[Steven Ballmer]], CEO <br>
| keypeople = [[Satya Nadella]], CEO <br>
[[Teri L. List-Stoll]], Chief Financial Officer <br>
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'''Microsoft Corporation'''is a multi-national company which develops, license, manufacture and support a wide range of products and services such as operating systems for personal computers, servers, intelligent devices, server applications for distributed computing, environments information worker productivity applications, business solutions applications, high performance computing applications, software development tools and video games.
'''Microsoft Corporation''' is a multi-national company which develops, license, manufacture and support a wide range of products and services such as operating systems for personal computers, servers, intelligent devices, server applications for distributed computing, environments information worker productivity applications, business solutions applications, high performance computing applications, software development tools and video games.
Microsoft is trading at NYSE and NASDAQ under the ticker symbol "MSFT." [[Paul Allen]] and [[Bill Gates]] co-founded the company in 1975 and it is headquartered in Redmond, Washington and it has offices in more than 100 countries worldwide.
Microsoft is trading at NYSE and NASDAQ under the ticker symbol "MSFT." [[Paul Allen]] and [[Bill Gates]] co-founded the company in 1975 and it is headquartered in Redmond, Washington and it has offices in more than 100 countries worldwide.
==History==
==History==
===Company Beginnings===
===Company Beginnings===
The idea of establishing Microsoft began in 1971 when Paul Allen found an article in an electronics magazine about Intel's 4004 chip, the world's first microprocessor. Allen thought that this microprocessor will become better and better. After a year, Intel came up with 8008, which gave Paul Allen and Bill Gates the idea on How Moore's Law really worked. They learned that each generation of microprocessor chip was twice as fast as the previous.They decided to buy the 8008 microprocessor which became the core of a special computer designed to do traffic volume count analysis and which they would to traffic departments. [[Paul Allen]] and [[Bill Gates]] formed '''Traf-O-Data''', their first company.<ref>[http://www.nyu.edu/classes/keefer/ww1/garrid.html]</ref>
The idea of establishing Microsoft began in 1971 when Paul Allen found an article in an electronics magazine about Intel's 4004 chip, the world's first microprocessor. Allen thought that this microprocessor will become better and better. After a year, Intel came up with 8008, which gave Paul Allen and Bill Gates the idea on How Moore's Law really worked. They learned that each generation of microprocessor chip was twice as fast as the previous.They decided to buy the 8008 microprocessor which became the core of a special computer designed to do traffic volume count analysis and which they would to traffic departments. [[Paul Allen]] and [[Bill Gates]] formed '''Traf-O-Data''', their first company.<ref>[http://www.nyu.edu/classes/keefer/ww1/garrid.htmlwww.nyu.edu]</ref>
==Microsoft and ICANN==
==Microsoft and ICANN==
On January 24, 2001, Microsoft Benelux Support Manager Ruud de Jonge confirmed that the majority of Microsoft websites were down due to a problem in the system that maps Web addresses to [[IP Address|IP addresses]]. In a statement Jonge said, "It can be a system or human error, but somebody could also have done this intentionally. We don't manage the [[DNS]] ourselves, it is a system controlled by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) with worldwide replicas."<ref>[http://archives.cnn.com/2001/TECH/computing/01/24/microsoft.blackout.idg/index.html CNN Archives]</ref> This sparked comments from the Internet community and some concluded that Microsoft blamed ICANN for the failures of its domain name servers.<ref>[http://www.irbs.net/internet/nanog/0101/0729.html Microsoft Blames ICANN]</ref>
After the failures were resolved, Microsoft issued an apology to its customers and explained that the operational errors were not caused by any third party instead a Microsoft technician made a wrong configuration change to the routers on the edge of Microsoft's Domain Name Server network which caused limited communication between DNS servers on the Internet and Microsoft's DNS servers.<ref>[http://www.irbs.net/internet/nanog/0101/0728.html www.irbs.net]</ref>
In 2006, Microsoft became an [[ICANN]] accredited registrar for [[.biz]], [[.com]], [[.info]], [[.name]], [[.net]], [[.pro]] and [[.org]].<ref>[http://www.icannwatch.org/article.pl?sid=06/11/05/0346248 ICANN Watch]</ref>
In 2006, Microsoft became an [[ICANN]] accredited registrar for [[.biz]], [[.com]], [[.info]], [[.name]], [[.net]], [[.pro]] and [[.org]].<ref>[http://www.icannwatch.org/article.pl?sid=06/11/05/0346248 ICANN Watch]</ref>
In 2009, the company collaborated with ICANN, along with security researchers and operators within the [[DNS]], to implement a coordinated global response to the [[Conficker Worm]]. It coordinated a response designed to disable domains targeted by Conficker and offered a $250,000 reward for information that results in the arrest and conviction of those responsible for illegally launching the Conficker malicious code on the Internet.<ref>[http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-2-12feb09-en.htm Microsoft Collaborates With Industry to Disrupt Conficker Worm]</ref>
In 2009, the company collaborated with ICANN, [[AOL]], [[Verisign]], [[Afilias]], and with security researchers and operators within the [[DNS]], to implement a coordinated global response to the [[Conficker Worm]]. It coordinated a response designed to disable domains targeted by Conficker and offered a $250,000 reward for information that results in the arrest and conviction of those responsible for illegally launching the Conficker malicious code on the Internet.<ref>[http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-2-12feb09-en.htm Microsoft Collaborates With Industry to Disrupt Conficker Worm]</ref><ref>[http://mobile.eweek.com/c/a/Security/Microsoft-Teams-With-Industry-Leaders-From-AOL-to-Symantec-to-Fight-Conficker-Worm/ Microsoft Teams with Industry Leaders From AOL to Symantec to Fight Cornficker Worm]</ref>
===New gTLD Program===
[[Google]]'s application for the [[.search]] new gTLD includes a proposal for a "dotless" TLD, which has been with significant objection from Microsoft and other companies.<ref>[http://domainincite.com/13376-microsoft-objects-to-googles-dotless-domains-plan Microsoft Objects to Google's Dotless domains plan, Domain Incite] Retrieved 20 Sept 2013</ref> An excerpt from Google's application explains the proposal:
"Charleston Road Registry will provide a service on the dotless search domain that will allow users to designate the search functionality of their choice and then perform queries that will automatically be redirected to the appropriate website. This facility should provide simple, consistent access to the userʹs preferred search functionality that does not exist today."<ref>[https://gtldresult.icann.org/application-result/applicationstatus/applicationdetails/1319 Application details, ICANN.org] Retrieved 20 Sept 2013</ref>
==Microsoft and ISOC==
Microsoft is a sponsor of a component of [[ISOC]]'s Next Generation Leaders Programme, which is an academic and field-based program, launched in 2010 in conjunction with the [[DiploFoundation]], intended to further the skills of promising Internet professionals and individuals working in Internet governance. Microsoft specifically sponsors a fellowship with the [[IETF]], a part of the academic portion of the NGL program.<ref>http://isoc.org/wp/newsletter/?p=2450 Newsletter, ISOC.org]</ref>
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==Email Systems Hacking Attack==
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