WRA 110
Section 14
November 11, 2013
Primary research question: How does Microsoft affect our life?
Our primary research question is ‘how Microsoft affects our life?’ In order to answer this broad question, our group divided it into 4 pieces. First of all, we have to know Microsoft well before we can talk about it. Therefore, the history of Microsoft seems necessary for the research. After that, we can discuss about the impact Microsoft’s products have on our life in 3 big aspects, daily life, technology evolution and business world. Our paper will be interesting because we will do research in a wide domain, so that a sensitive reader is able to find the details in our paper are so familiar, and then agree that Microsoft affects our life in every tiny spot.
Thesis: Since April 4 1975, Bill Gates and Paul Allen founded Microsoft, the company have constantly invented and improved their products. Originally Microsoft started their business from Windows Operation System. Gradually Microsoft nowadays has series of products like Windows, Office, Xbox, and Skype. All these contribute to the leading position among the high-tech companies all over the world. Not only its products affect the world greatly, but also the huge amount of employee worldwide influences the economic world deeply. The products of Microsoft are super useful in daily life. Take Word for an instance, most people use it when composing an article. Furthermore, PowerPoint can be no more familiar to us. Excel is the basic application in the basic for accountants.
Outline
Intro: A description of how wide the Microsoft’s products are used in our daily life followed by a question how Microsoft could be so successful.
How Microsoft change our daily life
Business • MICROSOFT IS A FORCE THAT HAS SHAPED THE MODERN BUSINESS • WINDOWS, WORD, EXCEL AND THE INTERNET AS BUSINESS TOOLS • The worldwide web of businesses • Microsoft Excel as a revolutionary spreadsheet • Microsoft