 Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) is an American multinational computer technology corporation. It develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of software products for computing devices. Microsoft's best-selling products are the Microsoft Windows operating system and the Microsoft Office suite of productivity software. These products have prominent positions in their respective markets, with market share estimates as high as 90% or more for Microsoft Windows as of 2006 and for Microsoft Office as of 2003.[citation needed] One of Bill Gates' key visions for the company was to "to get a workstation running our software onto every desk and eventually in every home".
Founded to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800, Microsoft rose to dominate the home computer operating system market with MS-DOS in the mid-1980s. The company released an initial public offering (IPO) in the stock market, which, due to the ensuing rise of the stock price, has made four billionaires and an estimated 12,000 millionaires from Microsoft employees.
Throughout its history the company has been the target of criticism for various reasons, including monopoly status and anti-competitive business practices including refusal to deal and tying. The U.S. Justice Department and the European Commission, among others, have ruled against Microsoft for various antitrust violations.
Microsoft has footholds in other markets besides operating systems and office suites, 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 and home entertainment products such as the Xbox, Xbox 360, Zune and MSN TV. Known for what is generally described as a developer-centric business culture, Microsoft has historically given customer support over Usenet newsgroups and the World Wide Web, and awards Microsoft MVP status to volunteers who are deemed helpful in assisting the company's customers.The company's official website is one of the most visited on the Internet, receiving more than 2.4 million unique page views per day according to Alexa.com, which ranked the site 14th amongst all websites for traffic rank on June, 2008
Additional featuresDimensions/Weight
Type Console
Weight 4 kg
Dimensions 78x299x180mm
Colour Black
Processor
Instruction set X86-to-RISC
Memory
RAM installed size 64 MB
Cache size 128 kB
Hard drive capacity 8 GB
Game Media type DVD
Memory Card
Storage capacity 4700 MB
Video
Video Output Standard Connector with Cables Available: Composite, S-video, Scart, RGB Scart, Component
Maximum resolution (external) 1920x1080pixels
Fill rate 4000 million pixels/sec
Graphic Effects Shadows, Fog effects, Pixel Shaders, Vertex Shaders, Texture lighting, Bilinear filtering, Trilinear filtering
Sound
Sound Output Mode Stereo, Dolby Digital 5.1, DTS (Movies)
Audio processor NVidia Xbox MCP
Input Device
Input device type Game pad
Power
Mains Yes
Communications
Modem No
Ethernet Yes
Bluetooth No
Wi-Fi No
Maximum data transfer rate (online) 100 Mbps
Connections
USB No
Firewire No
Compact Flash No
SD Card No
Memory Stick No
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