1. Modern PNW Businesses

2. Boeing (in their words)
Boeing is the world's largest aerospace company and leading manufacturer of commercial jetliners and defense, space and security systems. A top U.S. exporter, the company supports airlines and U.S. and allied government customers in 150 countries. Boeing products and tailored services include commercial and military aircraft, satellites, weapons, electronic and defense systems, launch systems, advanced information and communication systems, and performance-based logistics and training.

3. Early History
William E. Boeing bought Heath’s shipyard on the Duwamish River in 1910
Became his first airplane factory
First incorporated on July 15th, 1916 as Pacific Aero Products Co, and the B&W
Named after seaplanes built with George Conrad Westevelt
This first Boeing airplane was assembled in a lakeside hangar located on the northeast shore of Seattle's Lake Union. Many of Boeing's early planes were seaplanes.
Built seaplanes for the US during WWI

4. Planes
In 1925 Boeing created an airline named Boeing Air Transport, which merged a year later with Pacific Air Transport and the Boeing Airplane Company.
Other planes: flying boat, PW-P fighter planes, Model 40 mail planes, Boeing 80 (first plane built to transport passengers), monomails, Boeing 247 (modern airliner)
Changed named to United Aircraft and Transport Corporation in 1929 and acquired Pratt & Whitney, Hamilton Standard Propeller Company, and Chance Vought. United Aircraft then purchased National Air Transport in 1930.
Air Mail Act of 1934: prohibits airlines and manufactures from being under same corporation
Becomes: Boeing Airplane Company, United Airlines, and United Aircraft Corporation (later United Technologies)

5. s
Model 307 Stratoliner: first pressurized-cabin transport craft with cruising altitude of 20,000ft
During WWII: built bombers (ranked 12th in valuable wartime businesses)
In 1958, builds 707: first commercial jet airliner; becomes nations leading commercial jet manufacturer
1968, builds the 747: intercontinental range

6. Starts looking to expand to aerospace field of satellite communication
1990s-today
Starts looking to expand to aerospace field of satellite communication
Moves corporate headquarters from Seattle to Chicago

7. Microsoft
An American multinational technology company headquartered in Redmond, Washington, that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports and sells computer software, consumer electronics and personal computers and services.
Best known software products are the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems, Microsoft Office Suite, and Internet Explorer 
Other products: Xbox video game consoles and the Microsoft Surface tablet lineup.
As of 2011, it was the world's largest software maker by revenue, and one of the world's most valuable companies.

8. Early Founding
Founded in 1975 by boyhood friends Bill Gates and Paul G. Allen
Name Microsoft is derived by microcomputer and software
Microsoft Disk Operating System was released with the IBM PC in 1981, thereafter most personal computer manufacturers licensed the system….lots of money for Microsoft!
By 1993 nearly 90% of the world’s PC ran on Microsoft’s operating system

9. Encarta
Microsoft dramatically expanded its electronic publishing division, created in 1985 and already notable for the success of its multimedia encyclopedia, Encarta.
It also entered the information services and entertainment industries with a wide range of products and services, most notably the Microsoft Network and MSNBC (a joint venture with the National Broadcasting Company).

10. Internet
Microsoft did not move into Internet software until a new venture, Netscape Communications Corp., had introduced Navigator, a Web browser program that simplified the once-arcane process of navigating the World Wide Web.
In a change of course, Microsoft quickly developed its own browser, Internet Explorer, made it free, and moved aggressively to persuade computer makers and Internet service providers to distribute it exclusively.
By 1996 Microsoft was bundling Explorer with Windows OS and had begun the process of integrating Explorer directly into Windows.
In response, Netscape accused Microsoft of violating its 1995 consent decree and sued; those efforts helped to persuade the U.S. Department of Justice to reopen a broad investigation of Microsoft.

11. Sherman Antitrust Act
Following a trial that lasted 30 months (in 1999), a judge found Microsoft in violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act and ordered the breakup of the company.
In 2001 an appeals court overturned the breakup order but still found the company guilty of illegally trying to maintain a monopoly.

12. Bill Gates
In 2000 company cofounder Gates relinquished his role as CEO of Microsoft to Steve Ballmer, whom Gates had met during his brief tenure at Harvard University in the 1970s.
He handed over the title of chief software architect in 2006 to Ray Ozzie, a chief developer of the computer networking package Lotus Notes in the 1990s.
In 2008 Gates left the day-to-day running of the company to Ballmer, Ozzie, and other managers, though he remained as chairman of the board.
Ozzie stepped down in 2010, and longtime Microsoft executive Satya Nadella replaced Ballmer as CEO in 2014.

13. Discussion
In your opinion, which company (Boeing or Microsoft) has had the biggest impact on the economic and society of Washington? Explain your reasoning.