Description of the Company
Microsoft is an American multinational Corporation that is located in Redmond, Washington. It was founded in Albuquerque on April 4, 1975, by Bill Gates and Paul Allen. The Corporation develops, manufactures, licenses and sells computer software, consumer electronics and personal computers. Its best known products are the Microsoft Window line of operation systems, Microsoft Office, and the Internet Explorer web browser.
Ethics
There is no doubt that Microsoft Corporation is a proactive contributor to society because it has integrated social responsibility into its strategic plan in order to share its wealth with the community. So far, the company has donated over seventy million dollars in software to more than 60,000 non-profit organizations in 41 countries. The reason for these donations is to help these charity organizations to serve their communities better. In addition, it has launched a worldwide youth initiative so that it can reach millions of young people and help them to become future entrepreneurs by educating them. This is the reason why Microsoft has been described by Corporate Social Responsibility as the company that helps small businesses, as well as individuals, to achieve their full potential. In addition, Microsoft has earned the reputation of being the leading corporation that offers the strongest and most comprehensive compensations and benefits to its employees. The company offers competitive salaries, bonuses, and stock awards to its eligible employees, based on the employees' performance. Moreover, it provides healthcare, dental, and visual coverage to all its employees and their immediate families. It also offers paid maternity leaves to employees. Moreover, these new parent...
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In this essay, the author
- Explains that microsoft is an american multinational corporation that was founded in albuquerque on april 4, 1975, by bill gates and paul allen.
- Explains that microsoft corporation is a proactive contributor to society because it has integrated social responsibility into its strategic plan in order to share its wealth with the community.
- Explains that microsoft has a defined target market and uses demographic segmentation to target young adults.
- Explains that the xbox is the first video game console developed by microsoft. it was first introduced in the north american market on november 15, 2001, then a year later, entered the australian and europe's gaming market.
- Explains how microsoft distributes the xbox console to the market through various channels, such as amazon, bestbuy, future shop, and the source.
- Explains that microsoft has multiple target audiences for the xbox 360, such as gamers of all age ranges and women who live with male gamers by incorporating multimedia featutes.
- Explains that the video game industry has come a long way since its first release in 1972. it has become extremely lucrative business allowing for huge upgrades on old products and the increase in their selling price.
- Compares the price of the xbox and sony's playstation 3 and explains the pricing strategy of price skimming.
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- Explains how microsoft got its biggest break in 1980, when ibm chose microsoft to write the operating system for the ibm pc personal computer.
- Explains that microsoft was one of the first established software companies to develop software for the apple macintosh.
- Explains that microsoft was accused of monopolistic business practices and the ftc investigated microsoft for alleged anticompetitive practices. microsoft and ibm went separate ways in 1991.
- Explains that microsoft and the justice department reached an agreement that called for microsoft to change the way its operating system software was sold and licensed to computer manufacturers.
- Explains how microsoft expanded into the media, entertainment, and communications industries. in 1997, the justice department accused microsoft of violating its 1994 agreement by requiring computer manufacturers that installed windows 95 to also include internet explorer.
- Opines that microsoft's history is important to know. without knowing its history, there would be no way to produce an accurate opinion of whether microsoft should be broken up or not.
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- Explains that microsoft corporation american is a multinational corporation based in redmond, washington, that specializes in developing, manufacturing, licensing, supporting and selling software for computers.
- Explains that microsoft was created by bill gates and paul allen in 1975 in albuquerque, new mexico. their passion for computer programming allowed them to succeed in the industry.
- Explains that microsoft is currently market dominant in the ibm pc-compatible operating system and office software markets with their ever popular microsoft office program. microsoft also makes an extensive array of additional software for desktop computers and servers.
- Explains that steve ballmer and bill gates are two very important people in the microsoft corporation.
- Explains how ballmer led numerous microsoft divisions, including the operations team, operating systems development division, and sales and support. gates gave up his day-to-day activities when he stepped down as chief software architect in 2006.
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- Explains that gates was the ceo and chief software architect at microsoft, and has been condemned for his unfair approach to the business.
- Explains that he resigned as chief executive officer of microsoft in january 2000. he stayed on as chairman and gave himself the position of chief software architect. his last day as a full-time employee was on june 27, 2008.
- Explains that united states v. microsoft corporation was a us antitrust law case, finally taken care of by the department of justice.
- Explains that the case was brought against microsoft on the 18th of may 1998 by the united states department of justice and had the backing of us 20 states.
- Explains that microsoft packaged its flagship web browsing software, internet explorer, with all windows operating systems to beat out competing web browsers. this limited the market for rivals like opera and netscape navigator.
- Explains that the u.s. government became interested in microsoft in 1991 when the federal trade commission inquired because they believed that microsoft was abusing the market share stranglehold it had involving pc operating systems. the department of justice began a new exploration of microsoft’s practices later on in the year.
- Explains that microsoft would claim that their web browser internet explorer was in-fact a feature, which according to the past settlement enabled microsoft to package explorer to microsoft windows.
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- Analyzes how bill gates was "evasive and nonresponsive" when interrogated when he questioned the meaning of the words "compete", "concerned," "ask", and "we".
- Explains that microsoft provided several videotapes throughout the trial, with one that demonstrated that with the removal of their web browser internet explorer, microsoft windows would experience a reduced operating speed and possible malfunctions.
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- Analyzes how the independent institute ran an ad in the washington post and new york titled "an open letter on antitrust protectionism." the institute defends microsoft by saying that it was not consumers of the technology that brought this lawsuit to court but the rivals of microsoft.
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- Explains that plaintiffs wanted to surpass the court of appeals, hoping to go directly to the supreme court in order to end the case as quickly as possible.
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- Explains that the department of justice affirmed that it would not be seeking to break up microsoft into smaller, separate companies, but were seeking a less severe penalty for their anti-trust activities.
- Explains that the department of justice affirmed that it would not be seeking to break up microsoft into smaller, separate companies, but were seeking a less severe penalty for their anti-trust activities.
- Explains that the department of justice agreed to settle the case with microsoft on november 2nd, 2001. microsoft would share the interfaces of its application programs with other computer companies and assign a board of three individuals that would have access to the systems, records and codes used for sourcing by microsoft from the past decade.
- Explains how the appeals court allowed microsoft's settlement with the department of justice, despite numerous objections.
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- Opines that the court case where the united states took on the computer and technology juggernaut microsoft was necessary to benefit the consumer.
- Explains that the influx of new web browsers made available benefitted the consumer in several ways. microsoft loss as a monopoly also meant they could no longer set prices.
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- Explains that microsoft launched a new start button with the famous multi-colored, window-shaped icon and incorporated the recent rise of the internet into its software by releasing internet explorer.
- Explains that microsoft entered the multi-billion-dollar game console market, originally dominated by sony and nintendo, with the release of the xbox and xbox 360 in 2005.
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