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Singular Microsoft

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Microsoft (plural Microsofts)

  1. (figuratively) a company whose products are ubiquitous
    • 2001, Daniel Charles, Lords of the Harvest: Biotech, Big Money, and the Future of Food (ISBN 0738202916), page 110:
      Similarly, said Fraley, farmers were going to demand Bt cotton or Roundup-resistant soybean plants no matter where they went shopping for seeds. Monsanto would be the Microsoft of agriculture.
    • 2005, Merrill Goozner, The $800 Million Pill: The Truth Behind the Cost of New Drugs (ISBN 0520246705), page 64:
      The company wanted to turn Celera into the Microsoft of the gene-hunting world, selling its version of the human genome to private or public gene hunters through a proprietary computer program.
    • 2006, Andrew Beaujon, Body Piercing Saved My Life: Inside the Phenomenon of Christian Rock (ISBN 0306814579), page 232:
      Shepherding is more or less gone (though there’s an interesting move back toward discipleship in today’s church especially among those influenced by Rick Warren’s blockbuster book The Purpose-Driven Life), but Integrity remains as sort of the Microsoft of worship music.

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Sat Jul 31 19:26:39 2010

Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT, HKEX: 4338) is a public multinational corporation based in Redmond, Washington, USA that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions. Established on April 4, 1975 to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800, Microsoft rose to dominate the home computer operating system (OS) market with MS-DOS in the mid-1980s, followed by the Microsoft Windows line of OSs. The ensuing rise of stock in the company's 1986 initial public offering (IPO) made an estimated four billionaires and 12,000 millionaires from Microsoft employees. Microsoft would come to dominate other markets as well, notably the office suite market with Microsoft Office.

Primarily in the 1990s, although still to an extent as of July 2010, critics contend the company used monopolistic business practices and anti-competitive strategies including refusal to deal and tying, put unreasonable restrictions in the use of its software, and used misrepresentative marketing tactics; both the U.S. Department of Justice and European Commission found the company in violation of antitrust laws. Known for its interviewing process with off-the-wall questions such as "Why is a manhole cover round?", various studies and ratings were generally favorable to Microsoft's diversity within the company as well as its overall environmental impact with the exception of the electronics portion of the business.

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Sat Jul 31 14:23:10 2010

How many pages on microsoft office compares to a page in a book?
Q. I am writing a book, well atleast trying to. Well i was just wondering how many pages on microsoft equal a page in a book. Im using a 12 font and i am very curious is it the number of pages on microsoft or is it soomething else will there be more or less pages from microsoft if it becomes a book. I am not planning on anything soon im just very curious.
Asked by Rhonda G - Thu Nov 12 15:52:15 2009 - - 1 Answers - 0 Comments

A. I use Micro Soft Works word processor; on the initial page set up I have no idea how many pages this would translate into, but by clicking on file I found an area for page set up which, once it is set up, will be the approximate amount of pages contained in a book with this same trim size. For instance, I can set the page to 5.25 x 8 inches or 6 x 9 inches and a book with this same trim size would contain the number of pages I have written on my computer. Hope this helps.
Answered by Randall - Thu Nov 12 16:11:14 2009

How do you make a birthday card with any microsoft program?
Q. I learned how to make one in Middle school and now I just forget. I remember using one of the microsoft programs; microsoft word, microsoft access, microsoft frontpage, microsoft outlook, or powerpoint. It's a card for my bestfriend. Thanks!
Asked by Rose! - Fri Sep 4 10:18:08 2009 - - 3 Answers - 0 Comments

A. I think you did it in Microsoft Publisher. It is also a part of the office, and have a lot of nice templates.
Answered by Mr.Klaus - Fri Sep 4 10:22:17 2009

How do I transfer a map made in Microsoft Excel to Microsoft Word?
Q. I need to transfer a map that my mum made in Microsoft Excel to a flier that I made in Microsoft Word. We've tried simply copying and pasting it, but it transfers as a graph, which we can't resize. Mostly, we just need to resize the graph and be able to move it around a bit so that it's where we need it on the flier. Thank you!
Asked by Margarete - Sat Jul 25 15:03:59 2009 - - 2 Answers - 0 Comments

A. Transfer from Excel to Word... Copy the map again in Excel and then in Word, go to Paste Special (not normal Paste) and choose either a bitmap or Excel object option which may be a better way to see the map properly and can even be resized. Don't forget to insert into a floating frame (right mouse click the image - look for the options in then pop-up menu) so that you can move it around and text will wrap around properly. Hope this helped.
Answered by Ben - Sun Jul 26 07:52:15 2009

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Terminal Gamer The sales were bolstered by Microsoft's Block Party event in March that netted millions on sales of Toy Soldiers ($4.6 million) and Perfect Dark ($2.4 ... Xbox Live Arcade Has Earned $46.1 Million This Year G4 TV (blog) Toy Soldiers Tops the List of XBLA Downloads at the 2010 Halfway Marker Gamespy.com What was XBLA's biggest seller this year? Computerandvideogames.com Gamasutra  - IncGamers.com  - MCV
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Microsoft is an American multinational computer technology corporation. It develops, manufactures, licenses and supports a wide range of software products for computing devices. Headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA, its best selling products are the Microsoft Windows operating system and the Microsoft Office suite of productivity software.

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  • Don't bother trying to create a better commercial desktop OS -- it doesn't matter how hard you try, how many engineers you throw at the problem, how much money you spend, or how many years you put into it. Microsoft owns that space and, worse, the public is totally complicit with that fact. People will not stop using Windows. It is a losing battle.
    • Scott Hacker, He Who Controls the Bootloader, BYTE Magazine, August 27, 2001

People associated with Microsoft

  • Bill Gates
  • Steve Ballmer, current Chief Executive Officer (since 2000)
  • Ray Ozzie, former CTO, current Chief Software Architect (since 2006)

External links

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