Transcript Microsoft - Arcor Magazin

A Presentation by Moritz Botterbrodt
Structure
 Facts
 Bill Gates
 History
 Products
- Zune
- X-Box 360
Facts
 Foundation: 1975
 Founders: Paul Allen and Bill Gates
 President: Bill Gates
 Location : Redmond (Washington)
 Personnel: 71.000
 Volume of sales: 44 Billions
Bill Gates
 Born: 28 Oktober 1955 in Seattle
 At the Age of 13 he attended a private School
 In the Holidays he earns 5.000 Dollar with programming
 1970 he founded together with Paul Allen his first Company
with a profit of 20.000 Dollar
 1973 he begin to study at the Harvard University
 1975 he dropped his study and founded Microsoft
History
 1975 the first headquarter was built in Alberqueue (New
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Mexiko)
1979 – 1986 Microsoft cooperates with ASCII
1979 Redmond became the new headquarter and Steve
Ballmer became the Manager of Microsoft
1980 IBM suggest Bill Gates to create a Home Computer
called IBM-PC with the op. System of Microsoft
1983 Bill Gates wants to create a GUI
1990 the first Windows Generation (Windows 3.0) released
1994 Microsoft Word,Excel and Powerpoint released
Products
 Operating System
(Windows XP/ Vista)
 Mp3 Player
( Zune)
 Applications software (Word, Powerpoint,Excel)
 Server products
(Biz Talk, Virtual Server)
 Compiler
(C, C++)
 Platforms
(X-Box, X-box 360)
 Games
(Halo, Age of Empires)
Products - Zune
- Zune “the iPod Killer”
- Released: November 2006
- Cost: 200-250 Dollar
- Comparable with the iPod Video
- Storage Space: 30 GB
-Playable Formats: MP3, AAC, WMA,
H.264, WMV, MPEG-4, JPEG
Products – X-Box 360
- Platform like the Playstation 3
-Presented on the E3 in 2005
-Cost: 300€/400€
-Sold: 11 Milion times