traffic data. Gates set off for Harvard University intending to become a lawyer like his father. Still shy and awkward‚ he rarely ventured out to parties unless dragged by his friend Steve Ballmer‚ whom he later repaid by naming him president of Microsoft. One day in December 1974‚ Allen‚ who was working at Honeywell outside of Boston‚ showed Gates a Popular Mechanics cover featuring the Altair 8800‚ a $397 computer from M.I.T.S. computing that any hobbyist could build. The only thing the computer
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Microsoft access Microsoft access is a database management system (DBMS) that combines a jet database engine with a graphical user interface. It is owned by the famous Microsoft company and has effectively evoluted since its release in 1992 with the Microsoft access version 1.0. Version 1.1 was introduced in 1993 but it was buggy. As a result‚ Microsoft updated its operating system and released the Microsoft access version 2.0. The latter was very efficient and used by many developers and designers
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Selling Counterfeit Microsoft Software worth More Than $1.2 Million Web Site used: http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2012/November/12-crm-1335.html Summary: On Oct. 24‚ 2012 Bruce Alan Edward was indicted by the federal grand jury in Bay City‚ Michigan for mail fraud and selling counterfeit Microsoft software with a retail value of more than $1.2 million. This case revealed that Edward distributed counterfeit copies of Microsoft Office 2003 Professional and Microsoft Windows XP Professional
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References: Brinkley‚ J. (2000‚ April). U.S. vs. Microsoft: The Overview; U.S. Judge Says Microsoft Violated Antitrust Laws With Predatory Behavior. The New York Times‚ Retrieved from: http://www.nytimes.com/2000/04/04/business/us-vs-microsoft-overview-us-judge-says-microsoft-violated-antitrust-laws-with.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm Bureau of Labor and Statistics (2013). Labor Force Statistics from the Current
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December 2008 SDL SERIES‚ ARTICLE #4 SDL Series - Article #4: Threat Modeling at Microsoft In this fourth article in the series‚ we examine how Microsoft uses a technique known as “threat modeling” to detect design issues that could result in product vulnerabilities. Threat modeling is one component of the Microsoft Security Development Lifecycle (SDL). Content The Microsoft SDL What is Threat Modeling? A Security Frame of Mind The Threat Modeling Process Mitigating Threats Threat Modeling
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interesting example of strategic behavior comes from a 1997 article about Microsoft’s investment in Apple (New Straits Times‚ 1997). The article is included in the Required Readings list. Facing tough anti-trust scrutiny from government agencies‚ Microsoft provided financial support to Apple in order to ensure Apple’s survival and‚ therefore‚ to ensure that competitiveness in the industry remains. Moreover‚ the partnership with Apple provided an additional market for Microsoft’s products – the MS Office
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IBM partnership IBM approached Microsoft in July 1980 regarding its upcoming personal computer‚ the IBM PC.[39] The computer company first proposed that Microsoft write the BASIC interpreter. When IBM’s representatives mentioned that they needed an operating system‚ Gates referred them to Digital Research (DRI)‚ makers of the widely used CP/M operating system.[40] IBM’s discussions with Digital Research went poorly‚ and they did not reach a licensing agreement. IBM representative Jack Sams mentioned
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partner Paul Allen dropped out of Harvard to begin the Microsoft Corp. in 1975. <br> <br>Throughout his life‚ Gates had many experiences with business. Allen and Gates started a small company called Traf-O-Data. They sold a small computer outfitted with their program that could count traffic for the city. Gates also worked as a Congressional Page and at a programming company called ’TRW’. After all his minor jobs‚ Gates and Allen founded Microsoft in 1975‚ the largest computer based company in the
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Paul Allen co-founded the Microsoft Corporation with Bill Gates (1955- ) ‚ adapting existing programming languages such as BASIC‚ which was originally written for mainframe computers‚ into software suitable for personal computers. Such innovations enabled the software industry to become established and expand as a viable business‚ strengthening the American economy and creating new groups of computer entrepreneurs and users. As personal computers became more affordable and accessible during the 1980s
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philanthropist. Gates is the former chief executive and current chairman of Microsoft‚ the world’s largest personal-computer software company‚ which he co-founded with Paul Allen .He is consistently ranked among the world’s wealthiest people and was the wealthiest overall from 1995 to 2009‚ excluding 2008‚ when he was ranked third in 2011 he was the wealthiest American and the second wealthiest person. During his career at Microsoft‚ Gates held the positions of CEO and chief software architect‚ and remains
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