Is Microsoft a monopoly or not? In order to understand if Microsoft is a monopoly one must first know the definition of a monopoly. A monopoly is a firm that is the sole seller of a product that has little or no substitutes. This automatically should arouse many thoughts in the minds of “us” as consumers. For all these years have we been monopolized by a producer of a product just because there were limited sources in the same fields? Yes and no should be the floating answer. Microsoft for years
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Available Organization : Microsoft Corporation Industry : Information Technology Countries : USA Abstract: The case examines the charges of gender/racial discrimination and sexual harassment against leading IT company Microsoft. It explores in detail the treatment meted out to female employees in the company’s initial years and the measures Microsoft took to improve the work culture of the organization. The case also discusses the lawsuits against Microsoft that allege racial discrimination
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|Strengths |Opportunities | |High Brand Identity |Interest Rate Decline | |Large Geographic Scope |Growing International Market | |Worldwide operational centers
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Introduction Microsoft Corporation is a multinational company based in Redmond Washington. The company manufactures computer products and offer computer services. The company also licenses and supports various types of computer products and services. Microsoft Corporation was founded in 1975 by Bill Gates and Paul Allen. The company is the largest software manufacturer globally in terms of revenue. It is also the most valuable organization in the world. Bill Gates and Paul Allen founded the company
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The Microsoft office platform includes 3 features: Word‚ Excel and PowerPoint. Each program has it own individual characteristics that can be useful to any type of working environment. Microsoft Word is a full-featured word processing program that all you to create many types of personal and business documents‚ including flyers‚ letters‚ memos‚ resumes‚ reports‚ fax cover sheets‚ mailing labels‚ etc. With Word you can easily attach files. It helps you create a “good heading structure.” It ensures
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Microsoft Project Summer 2006 BUS 597A INTRODUCTION In 1975‚ Bill Gates and Paul Allen created a company called Microsoft. More than thirty years later‚ Microsoft is a leader in the field of computer programming. Gates and Allen both had big plans for their company and came up with different ways of managing people and products in order to create possibly the most effective and versatile workforce of any corporation in existence. To study Microsoft’s way of doing business is to look at the
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Introduction: MS office was launched on 1 August 1989 by Microsoft corp. The very first version of Ms Office was made up of Ms Word‚ Ms PowerPoint and Ms Excel and till now 16 versions of MS office have been released for windows and 12 for MAC. The different components of MS Office do different jobs in a particular way‚ like for word processing there is MS word‚ for creating slides and giving presentations there is MS PowerPoint ‚for creating spreadsheets flowcharts pie charts and graphs there
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2012 Business Analysis Part I Microsoft is ranked 37 in the Fortune 500 list of companies (CNN‚ 2012). It is the world’s largest software company (Turits & Wesman‚ 2012)‚ and is composed of five separate divisions: Windows‚ Business‚ Servers and Tools‚ Entertainment and Devices‚ and Online. Investors should look at how a company meets the needs of its stakeholders and perform a strength‚ weakness‚ opportunity‚ and threat (SWOT) analysis. By looking at how Microsoft meets the needs of its stakeholders
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Application Software. Around 1990‚ Microsoft became more aggressive in application software for IBM-standard PCs. It began to bundle Word‚ Excel‚ and PowerPoint into a popular suite‚ MS Office. It also began to offer “competitive upgrades” – discounts for customers who were switching from WordPerfect and Lotus 1-2-3.Starting in 1995 and all the way to 2008‚ MS was the dominant provider of word processors‚ spreadsheets‚ and presentation software. Internet Browsers. Bill Gates sent a memo to his
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come in handy and are very useful. Marketing companies‚ Wall Street‚ major companies like those use computers. With computers‚ you can upload files‚ download files‚ and download anything you want from the internet. You can view files from Microsoft word or PowerPoint or even Excel. Next‚ major car companies use computerized robots to make cars. I honestly feel bad‚ because thousands of people lost their jobs due to computerized robots. Now there are even some cars that can park its self without touching
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