A Presentation by Moritz Botterbrodt Microsoft 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 test
History 1975 the first headquarter was built in Alberqueue (New 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