MICROSOFT

Inc.

OUTLINE
Introduction
History
Worldwide company strength
Major competitors
Microsoft segments
Products owned by Microsoft
Functional breakout
Positions offered
Recruitment process

INTRODUCTION
Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational software
corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington.
It develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide
range of products and services related to computing.
The worlds largest software maker measured by revenues.
It is also one of the worlds most valuable company.
The company was founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen on
April 4, 1975.

HISTORY
Microsoft is founded ;they sold BASIC, the first PC computer
1975 language program to MITS Computer, Microsoft's first
customer.
1981
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Microsoft, Inc. is incorporated; IBM uses Microsoft's 16-bit

operating system for its first personal computer.

1983
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Microsoft introduces the Microsoft Mouse and Word for MSDOS 1.00..

1985
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Microsoft and IBM forge a joint development agreement and

launch Windows 1.0

1989 Microsoft co-develop SQL server 1.0.

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1992
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Introducing Windows 3.1

1994
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Windows NT

1995
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Windows 95

2000
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First Beta of .NET Framework released

2001
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Windows XP released

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2003
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Windows Server launched.

2007
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Windows Vista was released with Microsoft Office 2007.

2008
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Bill Gates leaves Microsoft to pursue charity work.

2009
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Windows 7 released

2012
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Windows 8 launches

2013
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Windows 8.1 with Office 2013 releases

WORLDWIDE COMPANY STRENGTH

110 subsidiaries
$86.83 billion revenue
128076 employees
191 countries

640000 partners

MAJOR COMPETITORS
Apple
Google
SAP
IBM
Oracle
RedHat
VMWare

MICROSOFT SEGMENTS
Advanced Technology
Applications and Services Engineering Group
Cloud and Enterprise Engineering Group
Devices Group
Dynamics
Operating Systems Engineering Group
Technology and Research
Business Development and Evangelism Group
Finance Group
HR Group

PRODUCTS OWNED BY MICROSOFT

Bing
Windows
DirectX
Xbox - Game Console
Microsoft Office
Internet Explorer
MSN
Microsoft Office
Microsoft Windows Server
Skype
Nokia

FUNCTIONAL BREAKOUT
Engineering

49.0%

Sales and Marketing Support

Group

44.6%

Finance, HR and Legal

4.4%

Business Functions

2.0%

POSITIONS OFFERED
Controls and Compliance Analyst
Senior Procurement Engagement Manager
Group Manager, Strategy & Business Analysis
Senior Controller- Global Partner Operations Finance

RECRUITMENT PROCESS
Sending CV to Microsoft.
It may take month from CV submission date till the fob offer(if
you succeed).
3 rounds of review:
CV is reviewed and matched with job requirement. Shortest
round and applicant may be contacted within 1 week for
Round 2.
Longest one
Telephonic interview testing
Technical
Basic knowledge
Background depth

CONT.
Mostly technical
Candidate invited to talk face to face with Microsoft
employee.
It may take couple of week to declare results as they got a lot
of candidates to process

Thank You!