1. February 28, 2021
By Taylor Card

2. Microsoft’s Mission
Statement
Empower every person and
every organization on the
planet to achieve more

3. Microsoft’s Vision
Statement
To help people and businesses
throughout the world realize their
full potential

4. Microsoft
founded
IBM
introduces
its personal
computer
with
Microsoft's
operating
system
Microsoft
introduces
the earliest
version of
Office suite
applications
Microsoft
launches
Windows
3.0
Microsoft
launches
Windows XP
Microsoft
launces
Xbox
Microsoft
launches
Xbox 360
Microsoft
launches
Office 365
Microsoft
launches
Office for
iPad
Microsoft
launches
Windows 10
Microsoft
introduces
Surface
Laptop Go

6. Bill Gates
“There are people who don't like capitalism,
and people who don't like PCs. But there's
no-one who likes the PC who doesn't like
Microsoft.” - Gates

7. Bill Gates
“Microsoft will always be an important part of
my life’s work and I will continue to be
engaged with Satya and the technical
leadership to help shape the vision and
achieve the company’s ambitious goals. I feel
more optimistic than ever about the progress
the company is making.” - Gates

9. Satya Nadella
“Technologies will come and go, so you need
to be able to both ask and answer the
question: What do you do as a company, why
do you exist?” - Nadella

10. Bill Gates and
Steve Jobs in
the 1970s

11. Microsoft
Office

12. Microsoft Office 365
Office 365 has been growing at
between 3.5 and 4 million
monthly active users per month
for the last few years

13. Internet
Explorer

14. XBOX

15. XBOX Kinect
“fastest selling consumer
electronics device”

17. Microsoft’s Strategy

18. Microsoft Targets All
Classes

19. Microsoft Azure
If you visit a website,
there’s a good chance
that it’s running on
Microsoft Azure.

20. Microsoft continues to grow and set
the bar high enough to remain
dominant in the marketplace even if
the technologies and opportunities
keep on evolving.

21. Everyone, in one-
way-or-another, is
using a Microsoft
product.

22. “A computer on every desk and in every home. “
Four decades ago, Microsoft
Founders Bill Gates and Paul
Allen set the ambitious goal of
putting a PC on every desk and in
every home. Forty years later that
goal has been largely realized.

23. Computers
Changed Our
World
PCs and Windows have become the fundamental tools that have
helped authors write best sellers, artists create masterpieces,
musicians craft music, social service and volunteer organizations
monitor resources, manufacturers optimize production, banks power
ATMs and much more. Their integration in almost every part of
our lives has changed our world.