Microsoft Corporation

Building 92 at Microsoft Corporation headquarters in Redmond, Washington, in 2016
Type	Public
Traded as	NASDAQ: MSFT NASDAQ-100 component DJIA component S&P 100 component S&P 500 component
ISIN	US5949181045
Industry	Computer software Computer hardware Consumer electronics Social networking service Cloud computing Video games Internet Corporate venture capital
Founded	April 4, 1975; 48 years ago (1975-04-04) in Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S.
Founders	Bill Gates Paul Allen
Headquarters	One Microsoft Way, Redmond, Washington , U.S.
Area served	Worldwide
Key people	John W. Thompson (chairman) Brad Smith (president and CLO) Satya Nadella (CEO) Bill Gates (technical advisor)
Products	Microsoft Windows Office Servers Skype Visual Studio Dynamics Xbox Surface Mobile List of software
Services	Azure Bing LinkedIn MSDN Office 365 OneDrive Outlook.com TechNet Wallet Microsoft Store Windows Update Xbox Live Microsoft 365
Revenue	US$110.36 billion (2018)
Operating income	US$35.05 billion (2018)
Net income	US$17.37 billion (2023)
Total assets	US$364.8 billion (December 2022)
Total equity	US$183.14 billion (2023)
Number of employees	221,000 (2023)
Subsidiaries	List of Microsoft assets
Website	microsoft.com

Microsoft Corporation is a company that makes computer software and video games. Bill Gates and Paul Allen started the company in 1975. Microsoft makes Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office (including Microsoft Word), Edge, MSN and Xbox, among others. Most Microsoft programs cannot be downloaded for free–people have to buy them in a shop or online. Some products (like the Windows operating system) are often already installed when people buy a new computer.