Microsoft Corporation
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Google, Microsoft gain in search as Yahoo declines - MarketWatch
MarketWatch | 40 days 11 hours 59 minutes ago
J.P. Morgan Chase profit jumps past estimates
Microsoft Japan: Seeing strong Windows 7 pre-orders - MarketWatch
MarketWatch | 33 days 2 hours 29 minutes ago
Yasuyuki Higuchi added that Windows 7 is expected to drive sales of 36 million new PCs in Japan, citing an industry estimate.
Microsoft needs branded hardware John Dvorak's Second Opinion - MarketWatch
MarketWatch | 31 days 14 hours 33 minutes ago
But does Microsoft really want to support alien products? Are these stores going to be clones of CompUSA or Egghead or any other number of failed stores seen in the past?
Lionbridge Collaborates With Microsoft to Bring Technology Innovation to Emerging Markets [Press Release]
PRNewswire | 7 days 12 hours 6 minutes ago
Lionbridge Collaborates With Microsoft to Bring Technology Innovation to Emerging...in the US and throughout the world. Microsoft is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and other countries...
Microsoft is still a Windows company MarketWatch First Take - MarketWatch
MarketWatch | 31 days 15 hours 25 minutes ago
Without the deferred revenue from Windows 7, the core Windows business was looking pretty grim. Before deferred revenue from pre-sales to computer makers and retailers during the quarter, sales of Windows in the fiscal first quarter fell to $2.62 billion, down from $4.27 billion a year ago. See Microsoft earnings story here.
Redmond Magazine Honors ScriptLogic with Multiple 2009 Reader s Choice Awards [Press Release]
Business Wire | 20 days 17 hours 26 minutes ago
ScriptLogic® Corporation (www.scriptlogic.com), a leading provider of systems lifecycle management solutions for Microsoft® Windows®-based networks, today announced that the readers of Redmond magazine have selected various ScriptLogic products as Winners or Preferred Products in seven categories as part of the 2009 Redmond Reader’s Choice Awards. Year after year, Redmond readers have consistently showered ScriptLogic products with praise; as an example ScriptLogic’s Desktop Authority owns th...
Announcing GoSpeak! Pro Ultra-Portable Amplification System [Press Release]
Business Wire | 18 days 18 hours 36 minutes ago
SMK-Link Electronics Corporation, one of the world’s leading manufacturers of Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentation accessories, and a subsidiary of SMK Electronics, today announced the availability of the new GoSpeak! Pro Ultra-Portable Amplification System. Powerful enough to address audiences of as many as 200 people, GoSpeak! Pro’s flat-panel NXT® technology speakers provide room-filling audio amplification for crowded presentations, corporate gatherings, sales meetings speeches, seminars, ...
deviantART Challenges Artists With Darksiders(TM): These Are Your Last Days Contest [Press Release]
PRNewswire | 4 days 1 minute ago
...trademarks of THQ, Inc. Microsoft, Xbox 360 and the Xbox logos...registered trademarks or trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the U.S. and/or in other...and are used under license from Microsoft. CONTACT: Heidi Chambers...
Northwoods Software Announces GoXam 1.0 for Silverlight and WPF [Press Release]
PRNewswire | 6 days 12 hours 6 minutes ago
...support. GoDiagram and Northwoods Software are trademarks of Northwoods Software Corporation, Microsoft and Microsoft .NET are trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. CONTACT: Scott Smith of Northwoods Software, +1-603-886-9173 or1...
PULSE GROUP PLC - PULSE, MICROSOFT AND WARISAN GLOBAL UNLEASH THE WEEK [Press Release]
PRNewswire | 7 days 18 hours 36 minutes ago
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Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7 Benefit from AMD Virtualization Technology and Energy Efficiency [Press Release]
Business Wire | 6 days 17 hours 36 minutes ago
AMD (NYSE: AMD) today congratulates Microsoft Corp. on the significant achievement of bringing the Windows® 7 and Windows Server® 2008 R2 operating systems to the enterprise. Windows 7 is the perfect companion for AMD Business Class technology1 while Windows Server 2008 R2 and the Six-Core AMD Opteron™ processor together provide a stable and reliable, high-performance enterprise computing environment. The close collaboration between AMD and Microsoft helps enterprise computing customers achie...
Darren R. Huston Elected to DeVry s Board of Directors [Press Release]
Business Wire | 4 days 9 hours 51 minutes ago
DeVry Inc. (NYSE:DV), a global provider of educational services, announced today that Darren R. Huston, 43, was elected to serve as a Class III director until 2012 at its annual meeting of stockholders held on Nov. 11, 2009. Lyle Logan, William T. Keevan and Julia A. McGee were also re-elected to serve as Class III directors through 2012.
Google's lifeline for AOL shows signs of decline - MarketWatch
MarketWatch | 10 days 12 hours 32 minutes ago
At a book party for author Ken Auletta, who has just written "Googled: The End of the World as We Know It," Kara Swisher asks guests if they were scared by the search giant's growing power.
Why Congress needs a pay cut, or threat of one - MarketWatch
MarketWatch | 6 days 12 hours 51 minutes ago
Everyone in business understands this. That's why enormous work goes into designing and improving incentive systems to align the interests of directors, executives and staff with those of stockholders. Charlie Munger, Warren Buffett's second in command, says he's been a fanatical believer in the power of incentives all his life and yet frequently finds he's underestimated it.
Critical Alerts for Microsoft, State Street, J.C. Penney, Netflix, and Mead Johnson Released by Seven Summits Research [Press Release]
PRNewswire | 5 days 11 hours 5 minutes ago
Critical Alerts for Microsoft, State Street, J.C. Penney, Netflix, and Mead Johnson... Today's PriceWatch Alerts cover the following stocks: Microsoft Corporation , State Street Corp. , J.C. Penney Company, Inc. , Netflix...
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Company Overview
| Company: | Microsoft Corporation |
|---|---|
| Industry: | Development Tools, Operating Systems & Utilities Software |
| Website: | http://www.microsoft.com |
Microsoft's ambitions are anything but small. The world's #1 software company provides a variety of products and services, including its ubiquitous Windows operating systems and Office software suite. Microsoft has expanded into markets such as video game consoles, customer relationship management applications, server and storage software, and digital music players. The company has also used selective acquisitions to bulk up its presence in markets such as online advertising, mobile devices, and enterprise software. In 2008 Microsoft made repeated efforts to acquire Yahoo! but was ultimately rebuffed; the two companies would instead sign a deal in 2009 to combine their search operations.
Key Numbers
| Sales in U.S. Dollars (mil.) | 58,437 (2009) |
|---|---|
| One-year % Growth in Sales | -3.3 (2009) |
| Net Income in U.S. Dollars (mil.) | 14,569 (2009) |
| One-year % Growth in Net Income | -17.6 (2009) |
| Number of Employees | 93,000 (2009) |
| One-year % Growth in Number of Employees | 2.2 (2009) |
| Fiscal Year-End | June |