Since the time when computers began to become an everyday item, we have seen a leader emerge. Microsoft Corporation has over the ages proved through technological advances and new innovations that it is a leader among computers and new upcoming technologies. Microsoft offers a variety of products some of which include operating systems for laptops and desktops, cell phones and gaming consoles. They also offer services that help us with everyday questions and tasks such as Microsoft Office, which most people use in their daily life to write reports, make presentations and keep track of accounts. They have a search engine called Bing, which is a rival to Google and an instant messaging device, Windows Live. Microsoft with its vast categories of services and products has a market value of 215.44 billion dollars falling behind Apple inc. who has a staggering 306.23 billion dollars which leads the market. Market capitalization is the total dollar market value of all of a company's outstanding shares. Market capitalization is calculated by multiplying a company's shares outstanding by the current market price of one share. The investment community uses this figure to determining a company's size, as opposed to sales or total asset figures. The annual revenue for Microsoft in 2010 reached a record of $62.5 billion, an increase of 7 percent compared with the previous fiscal year. The number of employees employed at Microsoft as of 2010 was 89,000. Google who is a well know competitor has 24,400 employees and Apple who employs 49,400 employees.
Microsoft has a very detailed vision their vision states that Microsoft is“To be led by a globally diverse workforce that consistently delivers outstanding business results, understands the various...
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...me personally. The reasons that I believe this is that Microsoft has capitalized on computers and marketing on operating systems for most people who do not own Macs. I expect Microsoft to only grow in power and knowledge making is one of the leading businesses to have a chance to apply myself at. They have an initiative to expand into other markets such as graphic design, automobiles, as well as; gaming and everyday uses. As a growing business student Microsoft would have the ability to take my pre-existing knowledge and expand it into one of their more rapidly growing markets. Having the ability to grow and change within a company is a very key aspect of business. You personally have the ability to create new ways to market and grow. Microsoft is a corporation in which I can see my abilities and talents put to use and I feel that I would be a perfect fit for them.
Microsoft has devoted huge amounts of effort to marketing in developing their products and services, as well as to the integration of their software products with one another in an attempt to create a seamless and consistent computing environment for the user.
Looking at both companies’ outstanding shares, Apple has more outstanding shares of common stock on the open market than Microsoft. We can assume that Apple increases its stock issuance of outstanding shares to reduce the stock price thus making Apple’s stocks affordable (Miller-Nobles, Mattison and Matsumura 669).
Written Case Analysis IBM Salient Case Facts at a Glance: John Akers became the CEO of IBM in 1985. By this time, IBM had registered a drop in earnings for the first time. This trend continued, creating various other problems till John Akers was forced to resign in 1993. IBM was perceived as a ruthless giant with tremendous growth.
Microsoft brings creativity and innovation using different perspectives of an organizational asset by collaborating with various cultural values and vision. These visions, strategic plan and decisions,
Microsoft is dominating the market for years and it is the company that made its competitors almost unable to survive by offering great pieces of technology at affordable price. Today, it produces 75 percent of world’s PC’s. There are other monopolies that exists as well, for example; Wham-O owns over 90 percent of world’s frisbees. Nobody can compete against Wham-O since they basically control the whole frisbees’ industry. Another enormous monopoly is Google Inc., an international corporation that provides internet-related products and services. The industry includes everything from Android, Google Chrome, to Google Docs. Everyone, either students, or workers uses google every day to check emails, surf the web, type a document, etc. Google has couple competitors today but, because of the variety of products and services it offers, other firms can’t compete with Google.
"Microsoft Corporation, is a multinational computer technology corporation with global annual revenue of US$44.28 billion and 71,553 employees in 102 countries as of July 2006. 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, each of which has achieved near-ubiquity in the desktop computer market. Microsoft possesses footholds in other markets, with assets such as the MSNBC cable television network, the MSN Internet portal, and the Microsoft Encarta multimedia encyclopedia. The company also markets both computer hardware products such as the Microsoft mouse as well as home entertainment products such as the Xbox, Xbox 360 and MSN TV" ("Microsoft").
...ncome and increase in demand. Microsoft met another challenge from the rapid rate of new technology. Specially coming from competitor such as Apple, Google, IBM, AT&T corporation, and cable giant media ONE. The Internet also allowed for new growth, because companies can get their message out in second anywhere in the world. However, the management of Microsoft was able to fully utilize the skills, expertise, and wisdom of its employees to remain successful. Microsoft continues to be successful with its creativity and innovation by producing new product such as windows and Xbox. Management has shown diversity by employing 91000 people worldwide in over two-hundred countries. This cultural success has propelled Microsoft to the front of the technology world. This can be attributed to the efficiency and effectiveness.
The purpose of this phenomenological study is to explore the nature of shared experiences between adult males who received case management services after incarceration. The criteria for these participants are as follows: No incarceration within three years of release and have lived in a transitional home setting. Ultimately, exploring these ex-offender’s experiences may provide the aspects of case management that were the most useful for ex-offenders not recidivating. In addition, receiving case management in a transitional home is a requirement for ex-offenders. Furthermore, receiving case management in a transitional home is a collaborative process of aftercare advocacy to meet offender’s needs through providing resources with cost-effective outcomes.
Microsoft’s mission of placing a “PC running Microsoft software on every desk and in every home” drove their overall strategy early on. Depending on the business segment within Microsoft, one would see in place very different business models as the strategy for each line of business could vary. In the operating system (OS) segment, Microsoft initially brought in an existing product and modified this (MS-DOS) to work with the Intel microprocessor, which were the “brains” of the IBM PC. Microsoft partnered with IBM to provide the operating system for the IBM PC. In addition to developing Windows, Microsoft during this period was working to write applications for the Apple OS.
I believe that Microsoft has the best intensions for society, because they are constantly developing the software market into a more competitive and challenging industry. Microsoft’s success as a company is partly due to its commitment to making the best product possible and strategic business practices. The first reason Microsoft is not a monopoly is because of the standardized quality of its OS. Second is the intelligent business practices Microsoft has engaged in through many of its business partners. The legal issues of the alleged antitrust accusations from the department of justice are just totally overrated.
Microsoft is currently the largest company in the computer industry. With a market capitalization of $291 billion, Microsoft has built an empire by dominating software sales for personal computers. Stock growth over the past 25 years has increased by more than 30,000%. However, Microsoft’s growth has substantially decreased since the market collapse of 2001(Niemond 25 April 2007).
History of Microsoft Microsoft Corporation, leading American computer software company. Microsoft develops and sells a wide variety of computer software products in more than fifty countries. Microsoft's Windows operating systems for personal computers are the most widely use operating systems in the world. Microsoft had revenues of $14.4 billion for the fiscal year ending June 1998, and employs more than 27,000 people in 60 countries. Microsoft has it's headquaters in Redmond Washington.
As of now, there are other companies with enough market power to give Microsoft competition, so splitting it up now would be a lot less beneficial than it would have been in 1999 or 2000, when it was the main competitor. There is a metaphorical saying that two heads are better than one, so if the computer industry had two heads then it would be much better off. In other words, more firms mean more competition and more competition means that each company will strive to be better than the other companies. If each company strives to be better than the other companies, then this means a better product will be produced for the consumer and new technological advances will be made and more innovation will take place. If Microsoft was broken up back in 1999 then it could have given rise for many different competing companies to exist in the computer industry today, and the industry would look very different, perhaps even
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Microsoft is the leading and the largest Software Company in the world. Found by William Gates and Paul Allen in 1975 Microsoft has grown and become a multibillion company in only ten years. It all started with a great vision – “a computer on every desk and every home” - that seemed almost impossible at the time. Now Microsoft has over 44,000 employees in 60 countries, net income of $3.45 billion and revenue of 11.36 billion. Company dramatic growth and success was driven by development and marketing of operational systems and personal productivity applications software.