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Microsoft Company Profile: https://www.owler.com/iaApp/100978/microsoft-company-profile?utm_source=youtube Microsoft develops, manufactures, licenses, supports and sells computer software, consumer electronics, personal computers and laptops. Microsoft was founded in April 1975. Microsoft's Headquarters are located at One Microsoft Way, Redmond, Washington, USA 98052-6399. It has raised $61M in 1 round. The latest round was in 1986. Some of Microsoft's latest acquisitions include groovemusicapp, TouchType Ltd. and UC Commander, Event Zero. Microsoft's CEO, Satya Nadella, currently has an approval rating of 77%. 44% of the Owler community believes the stock will go Up. Microsoft has 118,000 employees and reported $92.4B in revenue [trailing four quarters]. Microsoft's primary competitors are Oracle, Apple, Google, Cognizant, The IdeaLists, 100 Percent Pure, Vulcan, Kudelski, Vulcan and Blackbaud. Visit the Microsoft website to learn more. Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) is a multinational corporation headquartered outside Seattle, at 1 Microsoft Way, Redmond, Washington (WA). Microsoft is most notable for its production of personalized computers and the development of the Windows Operating System and Internet Explorer web browser. Microsoft also engages in a number of other computing businesses including developing consumer software, consumer hardware, personal electronics, and cloud-based storage systems. Bill Gates and Paul Allen founded Microsoft in April 1975. The company never received any venture backing and did not undergo any funding events until it completed an IPO in March 1986, by which point the company was extremely valuable. The Microsoft IPO continues to go down in history as one of the most successful IPOs of a technology company. It made both Bill Gates and Paul Allen billionaires and reportedly produced 12,000 millionaires. Since inception, Microsoft has adopted a strategy of aggressively acquiring competitors. All told, Microsoft has acquired 144 companies, spending a total of $35B. To date, Microsoft's acquisition of internet-based communication firm Skype has been its most expensive and notable acquisition; the deal totaled $8.5B. Microsoft has made more acquisitions than any of its top competitors, including Apple, Oracle, and Hewlett Packard (HP). Other companies that Microsoft has acquired since 2009 include BlueStripe, 6wunderkinder, Datazen, LiveLoop, Sunrise, N-trig, Equivio, Revolution Analytics, HockeyApp, Acompli, Aorato, Mojang, InMage, SyntaxTree, GreenButton, Capptain SaaS, Parature, Apiphany, Nokia, InCycle, MetricsHub, Netbreeze, Storsimple, PhoneFactor, Perceptive Pixel, Yammer, Twisted Pixel Games, Canesta, Sentillion, Opalis Software, Interactive Supercomputing, Rosetta Biosoftware, and Big Park. In June 2008 Bill Gates retired from Microsoft as CEO and took on an advisory role as Steve Ballmer stepped in. Ballmer operated as CEO until February 2014 when Satya Nadella, Microsoft's current CEO, took on the role. On this date, John W. Thompson took over Bill Gate's advisory role on the board, and Gates moved to a more active position as the company's technology advisor. Since taking office, Satya Nadella has enforced company-wide restructurings and reforms. Most notably, Nadella laid-off thousands of employees in an effort to make the company more nimble and better equipped to compete against new technology start-ups. Currently Microsoft employs 128,000 people. The company has an estimated $91.8B in revenue. Nadella enjoys a 75% approval rating on Owler.