Microsoft

The Microsoft Corporation is a computer technology company founded in 1975 by Bill Gates, known largely for its work in the software industry. It is the creator of the Windows operating system, which has a dominant market share, perhaps 97% of personal computers throughout the world. Microsoft is also known for its popular gaming console, the Xbox, the Zune mp3 player. Another widely sold software product is Microsoft Office, which over the years achieved market dominance over a host of competitors such as Lotus 1-2-3.

Microsoft shares are traded on the NASDAQ stock exchange. The company is one of the 30 companies that compose the Dow Jones 30 Industrials.

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Litigation

• Microsoft has been sued for alleged antitrust violations by Sun Microsystems, AOL Time Warner, Novell, the Unites States Department of Justice, various states of the United States, and European Union.
• Around January 2007, Microsoft offered to pay a blogger to edit Wikipedia. Catherine Brooker, a spokeswoman for Microsoft, said this was to "correct" inaccuracies heavily written by people at IBM, a proponent of open-source standards .