Microsoft Logo — Microsoft Corporation ( NASDAQ : MSFT ) is a multi -origin, founded on April 4, 1975 by Bill Gates , Steve Ballmer and Paul Allen . Dedicated to the field of computer science , is headquartered in Redmond , Washington , United States . Microsoft develops, manufactures, licenses and produces software and electronics, with its products used the operating system Microsoft Windows and the suite Microsoft Office , which have an important position among personal computers. With a market share approaching 90% for Office 2003 and Windows in 2006, following the strategy of Bill Gates to “have a workstation that runs our software on every desktop and in every home” .
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The company is also often named as MS, by his initials on the NASDAQ ( NASDAQ : MSFT ) or simply as Redmond , due to the great influence it has on the location of their headquarters. It has 93,000 employees in 102 different countries and had revenue of 51,120 million U.S. dollars in 2007. More