The famous computer's company in the world

Today, I write about the famous companies which relate computers in the world.

First, I introduce “Microsoft.” Microsoft is a multinational computer technology company. Microsoft was founded by Bill Gates who is one of the most rich men in the world and Paul Allen on April 4, 1975, in Albuquerque. Gates quit Harvard University and Allen also left Honeywell. Best-selling Microsoft’s products are “The Microsoft Windows operating system” and “The Microsoft Office”. On the whole, Microsoft is successful now. Microsoft has a global annual revenue of 60.42 billion dollars and nearly 90,000 employees in 105 countries.

 Microsoft sold the first Windows which extended the graphics of the MS-DOS operating system in 1985. And Microsoft began to release the outstanding office products. Microsoft Works contained the function looked at by office applications, such as a word processor, a spreadsheet, and a database. Microsoft Works was put on the market at the end of 1986. Later, Microsoft announced Microsoft Office which is the office products which is the biggest success on August 8, 1989. Unlike the Microsoft Works, it was a set of individual application such as Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel. And Microsoft put Windows 3.0 on the market on May 22, 1990. It were sold 100,000 between two weeks. Windows grew up to be a popular platform rapidly. The year 1998 was a year important for the history of Microsoft. While Bill Gates appointed Steve Ballmer as the president, he himself stopped at the chairman and CEO. And Microsoft put on the market Windows 98 which was the latest version of Windows for general consumers. Moreover, Microsoft founded the India headquarters which becomes the second scale after the United States of America behind. Also after that, Microsoft continued growth and became a world leading major company.

Second company is Intel. Intel is an American multinational semiconductor chip maker corporation. Intel is the largest and the highest valued semiconductor chip maker, based on revenue. Intel mainly manufactures and sells a microprocessor, a chip set, a flash memory, etc. There is a CPU for personal computers in the main products of Intel. Intel is developed in the various computer related hardware enterprise from the end of the 1990s. Intel continues reigning as 1st chip makers in the world, and is maintaining nearly 80％ shares especially in the world CPU market in the past several years until it results from 1992 or subsequent ones now. Intel which is an affiliated company in Japan assigns the head office in Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo (Tokyo head office) and two places in Tsukuba-shi, Ibaraki (Tsukuba head office).