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About Microsoft

Microsoft Corporation (MSFT) (4338), or often just MS, is an American multinational computer technology corporation with 79,000 employees in 102 countries and global annual revenue of US $51.12 billion as of 2007.

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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 monopolistic business practices—both the U.S. Justice Department and the European Commission, among others, brought Microsoft to court for antitrust violations and software bundling.

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.

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    Explore Article Connect the Docs blog (Feb 4 2010)

    ClickInsights: What is the ideal length of a white paper? ...25 years of enterprise business experience with leading industry innovators such as Apple Computer, Microsoft, Digital Equipment Corporation, and J.D. Edwards Enterprise Software (now a division of Oracle Corp... (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Social Media   Enterprise   B2B

  3. Thought Leadership Can Move Your Company to the Head of the Class ...

    Explore Article Justice & Young (Jan 19 2010)

    Thought Leadership Can Move Your Company to the Head of the Class ... ...n-sense quote from the master investor. Bill Gates, discussing the future of technology, has been Microsoft’s mainstay thought leader since the personal computer industry began. Likewise, Steven Jobs with Ap... (Read Full Article)

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  4. Thought Leadership Can Move your Company to the Head of the Class ...

    Explore Article To be A best CXO (Dec 23 2009)

    ...n- sense quote from the master investor. Bill Gates, discussing the future of technology has been Microsoft’s mainstay thought leader since the personal computer industry began. Likewise, Steven Jobs with Ap... (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Thought Leader   Berkshire Hathaway   Bill Gates

  5. 100 Social Media & Content Marketing Predictions for 2010

    Explore Article Junta42 Content Marketing blog (Dec 14 2009)

    100 Social Media & Content Marketing Predictions for 2010 ...he word. Enterprise Social tools will become more mainstream next year with folks like IBM, Oracle, Microsoft and a host of smaller players like Yammer, SocialCast and SocialText allowing for rich interaction ... (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Social Media   Enterprise   CRM

  6. How to Craft an Effective Corporate White Paper Strategy

    Explore Article White Paper Company (Oct 19 2009)

    How to Craft an Effective Corporate White Paper Strategy ...ar), since there can only be one vision message for the entire enterprise. I’ve used the example of Microsoft’s new Search Engine strategy, Bing. The strategic vision paper would introduce Bing, and educate re... (Read Full Article)

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    ...and helping the insurgent marketer win the business. processing. For the best protection , download microsoft office 2008 mac you may as well as those relating to energy source. It uses 850nm light and can eas... (Read Full Article)

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  8. Three Phases of Social Media Maturation

    Explore Article Enlightened IT Development (Oct 14 2009)

    ...d a broad spectrum of organizations, with representation of global firms like British Telecom (BT), Microsoft, Spirent Communications and BearingPoint, as well as emerging growth companies such as GovDelivery ... (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Social Media   Mindshare   Thought Leader

  9. Thought Leaders on Twitter

    Explore Article Thought Leadership Times Blog (Oct 13 2009)

    Thought Leaders on Twitter ...are now indexed by multiple companies, including Google. As of this writing, Twitter, Google and Microsoft are exploring final talks to let the major search engines index the Twitter stream. However, twe... (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Social Media   HubSpot   Mindshare

  10. What Twitter's Deal with Google Might Mean for Marketers!

    Explore Article Internet Marketing Blog (Oct 9 2009)

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    What Twitter's Deal with Google Might Mean for Marketers! The tech-blogosphere is abuzz about the rumor that Twitter is talking to both Google and Microsoft about licensing a full feed of tweets. Kara Swisher broke the news into the echo-chamber: Twitte... (Read Full Article)

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    Explore Article MondoBeat (Sep 11 2009)

    Boosting Your Brand With Thought Leadership. « MondoBeat: Ideas to ... ... the US requires briefs to be typeset in Century. * Verdana, designed by Matthew Carter in 1994 for Microsoft, served a very specific application: on-screen use in websites. Verdana includes features that mak... (Read Full Article)

    Comment on Article Mentions:   Apple   Microsoft   Thought Leader

  12. Finding Your Village of Customers | Copyblogger

    Explore Article copyblogger.com (Sep 11 2009)

    Finding Your Village of Customers | Copyblogger ...ll and human means making plenty of mistakes. But when these businesses mess up, unlike AT&T or Microsoft, their customers often love them more. What’s a village business? A few months ago, I wrote about t... (Read Full Article)

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    Explore Article Global PR Blog Week 2.0 (Aug 27 2009)

    ...nd positioned them as powerful market forces made up of products and companies with a common enemy: Microsoft. Second, he personalized the concepts in ways virtually anyone could understand. In this way, he in... (Read Full Article)

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