Team+Microsoft

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[[image:http://depaginas.es/images/api/5/9/d/8/224893132-Paul_Allen.jpg width="173" height="221" align="right" caption="Paul Allen "]]**INFORMATION:**

 * Inventions
 * Xbox
 * Xbox 360
 * Windows 95
 * Windows 98
 * Windows 2000
 * Windows ME
 * Windows XP Home Edition
 * Windows XP Professional
 * Windows Vista Home
 * Windows Vista Home Premium
 * Windows Vista Business
 * Windows Vista Business Premium Paul Allen
 * Windows Vista Ultimate
 * Windows Server
 * ALTAIR BASIC Interpreter
 * Award(s)
 * Silver Buffalo Award [[image:http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/exec/billg/images/billg1_thumb.jpg width="172" height="241" align="right" caption="Bill Gates" link="http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/gallery/imageviewer.mspx?3AMBwaEoKCAtQ%2bsNlzHVTXml3CAzGFCzl6iNYi7EvfUH8zARmV2t9YHVeDMe0VDcp2Ps6SzcdfBOVi4G%2bwsNUe0%2bIUqO%2btCE4Widny7f0cKT5cEv0DcvK1N4aB11uQKElGV%2bKpBpTRTECs23cExNuOgIPjT0CZ6NTuwi7FPb6TapYEDacRsdFh%2bQZLOy05gJ"]]
 * Einstien Award
 * Idra Ghand Award
 * Franklin Institute Award
 * Salary
 * Bill gates makes 7.8 billion dollars per year. 20 million a day and 250 per second


 * Size of company
 * 308,000 users at 17,000 companies.
 * Buisness Success
 * Stock is $26.55 a share


 * How many people use Microsoft?
 * Around 500 million users word wide there by making it the most popular word processor in the world.
 * Charity
 * Microsoft donates a 1 million dollar grant to the Oscar De La Hoya foundation. This foundation is a non-profit organization committed to the development of the children, families, and communities in Los Angeles, California.
 * Campaign for United Way of King County presented a $150,000 check from Microsoft to Plymouth housing group in 2006
 * After this 2006 donation this put Microsoft over the 2.5 billion dollar mark.
 * Latest Patent:
 * Microsoft filed a patent that gives a solution for people who are worried about germs on a touch screen surface. The Company decided to use Ultraviolet light to help sterilize the screen.
 * Video:
 * Bill Gates Video
 * jobs
 * In 1975, before graduation Gates left Harvard to form Microsoft with his childhood friend Paul Allen. The pair planned to develop software for the newly emerging personal computer market.Bill Gate's company Microsoft became famous for their computer operating systems and killer business deals. For example, Bill Gates talked IBM into letting Microsoft retain the licensing rights to MS-DOS an operating system that IBM needed for their new personal computer. Worked for Microsoft since he left college.
 * Experiences
 * Gates' early experiences with computers included debugging (eliminating errors from) programs for the Computer Center Corporation's PDP-10, helping to computerize electric power grids for the Bonneville Power Administration, and founding with Allen a firm called Traf-O-Data while still in high school. Their small company earned them $20 thousand in fees for analyzing local traffic patterns