<Tr> <Th> Subsidiaries </Th> <Td> List of Microsoft assets </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Website </Th> <Td> microsoft.com </Td> </Tr> <P> Microsoft Corporation (/ ˈmaɪkrəsɒft /, abbreviated as MS) is an American multinational technology company with headquarters in Redmond, Washington . It develops, manufactures, licenses, supports and sells computer software, consumer electronics, personal computers, and related services . Its best known software products are the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems, the Microsoft Office suite, and the Internet Explorer and Edge web browsers . Its flagship hardware products are the Xbox video game consoles and the Microsoft Surface lineup of touchscreen personal computers . As of 2016, it is the world's largest software maker by revenue, and one of the world's most valuable companies . The word "Microsoft" is a portmanteau of "microcomputer" and "software". </P> <P> Microsoft was founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen on April 4, 1975, to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800 . It rose to dominate the personal computer operating system market with MS - DOS in the mid-1980s, followed by Microsoft Windows . The company's 1986 initial public offering (IPO), and subsequent rise in its share price, created three billionaires and an estimated 12,000 millionaires among Microsoft employees . Since the 1990s, it has increasingly diversified from the operating system market and has made a number of corporate acquisitions, their largest being the acquisition of LinkedIn for $26.2 billion in December 2016, followed by their acquisition of Skype Technologies for $8.5 billion in May 2011 . </P>

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