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Part Three Online Services Business and Entertainment and Devices Division

The Online Services Business (OSB) provides personal communications services, such as e-mail and instant messaging and online information offerings, such as Live Search and MSN portals and channels worldwide. OSB also provides a range of online services, such as MSN Internet Access, MSN Premium Web Services and OneCare. OSB manages many of its own properties, including home page, health, auto and shopping. In addition, OSB creates alliances with third parties, such as CareerBuilder.com, Expedia.com, Foxsports.com, Match.com, and MSNBC.com. OSB generates revenue primarily from online advertising, subscriptions and transactions of online paid services, as well as MSN narrowband Internet access subscriptions.

During fiscal 2007, the Company launched new online initiatives, including Windows Live Search and Live.com in 54 international markets, Live Local Search in the United States and United Kingdom, beta versions of MSN Soapbox (expansion of the MSN Video experience), Virtual Earth 3D, Windows Live Hotmail and others. The Company’s products in OSB segment includes MSN Search, MapPoint, MSN Internet Access, MSN Premium Web Services (consisting of MSN Internet Software Subscription, MSN Hotmail Plus, MSN Bill Pay, and MSN Radio Plus), Windows Live, and MSN Mobile Services.

In this segment, the Company competes with AOL, Google, Yahoo! and Earthlink.

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Part Two Client, Services and Tools

The Client segment has overall responsibility for the technical architecture, engineering and product delivery of the Company’s Windows product family, and is also responsible for its relationships with PC manufacturers, including multinational and regional original equipment manufacturers (OEMs). During the fiscal year ended June 30, 2007 (fiscal 2007), the Company released Windows Vista, the Windows operating system. The Company’s products in the Client segment includes Windows Vista, including Home, Home Premium, Ultimate, Business, and Enterprise Starter Edition; Windows XP Professional and Home; Media Center Edition; Tablet PC Edition, and other standard Windows operating systems.

In the Client segment, the Company competes with Apple Computer, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Mozilla and Sun Microsystems.

Server and Tools

Server and Tools develops and markets software server products, services and solutions. Windows Server products are integrated server infrastructure and middleware software designed to support software applications and tools built on the Windows Server operating system. Windows Server products include the server platform, database, storage, management and operations, service-oriented architecture platform and security software. The segment also builds standalone and software development lifecycle tools for software architects, developers, testers and project managers. Server products can be run on premise or in a hosting environment.

The Company offers a range of consulting services and provides product support services and customer industry solutions. Server and Tools segment also provides training and certification to developers and information technology professionals about its Server and Client platform products. Server and Tools also includes the enterprise partner group, which is responsible for sales, partner management, and partner programs for medium and large organizations, and the public sector sales and marketing organization. The Company’s products in the Server and Tools segment includes Windows Server operating system, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Enterprise Services, product support services, Visual Studio, System Center products, Forefront Security products, Biz Talk Server, Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN) and TechNet.

In the Server and Tools segment, the Company competes with Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Sun Microsystems, Novell, Red Hat, VMWare, Computer Associates, Oracle, BMC, McAfee, Symantec, Trend Micro, Adobe, BEA Systems and Borland.

Taken from the Source: Reuters Company Profile

Part One, Company Overview

Microsoft Corporation, incorporated in 1981, develops, manufactures, licenses and supports a range of software products for computing devices. The Company’s software products include operating systems for servers, personal computers (PCs) and intelligent devices, server applications for distributed computing environments, information worker productivity applications, business solution applications, high-performance computing applications and software development tools. It provides consulting and product support services, and trains and certifies computer system integrators and developers. Microsoft Corporation sells the Xbox 360 video game console and games, the Zune digital music and entertainment device, PC games, and peripherals. Online offerings and information are delivered through its Windows Live, Office Live, and MSN portals and channels. The Company enables the delivery of online advertising through its adCenter platform. The Company has five segments: Client, Server and Tools, the Online Services Business, the Microsoft Business Division, and the Entertainment and Devices Division.

In June 2008, the Company announced the acquisition of Navic Networks, a provider of television advertising solutions. Navic will join Microsoft’s Advertiser and Publisher Solutions (APS) Group. In April 2008, the Company completed the acquisition of Danger, Inc. and Fast Search & Transfer ASA. In December 2007, the Company acquired Multimap, a provider of online mapping services. Multimap will operate as a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company, as part of the Virtual Earth and Search teams in the Online Services Business. In August 2007, the Company acquired aQuantive Inc. Read more »

Efficiency and Low Average Cost

We had been arriving at 21 century, and now we are living in globalization and technology environment. If we look back at green revolution when agriculture and industry were starting to grow up, Technology was created to help human in their job. While human only has two hands, he couldn’t make more. This is the philosophy why technology was created. Technology has been playing many rules and important rules in all aspects. We need Technology. Sometimes, technology is described as a external factor, to help our hand, help our feed, help our mind to make more result in our job. When Adam and Eve worked as farmer, they need mattock, cow (to plow the farm) and irrigation. Mattock, cow and pipeline irrigation is technology. Cow is replaced by tractor; mattock is also replaced by tractor, ancient irrigation is replaced by modern pipeline irrigation and maybe lumber mill.
This is a stupid metropolis opinion, talking about Technology Vs Labor. Who get the benefits, Employee or employer?
To describe about technology and labor is very sensitive because labor without technology is meaningless and otherwise. The both still help each other. The point is how much percent technology is required and how we combine technology and labor percentage so we get lower Variable Cost (VC) Read more »