HISTORY AND MISSION STATEMENT

     The general purpose of Microsoft is to apply technology to our lives to sustain a social and economic growth. Many companies use Microsoft software to solve issues and organize paperwork, as well as increase human beings social life and allow them to stay in contact with people around the world. The founder of Microsoft, Bill Gates and Paul Allen wanted to create technology far more advance than today, making our lives easier, more comfortable and fun. We did not just want to stop at software’s but we wanted to create more where we envision a hardware that was incorporated with the software also known as Xbox, then Xbox 360. Our newer product Xbox Kinect also known as Project Natal is a controller free gaming and entertainment experience for Xbox 360. We as a company vision Microsoft software and hardware as a worldwide technology that will be attracted to all ages and genders to increase a better growth for our advance world to come.
    Our company known as Microsoft, goals is to apply technology, hard work and partnerships to create better opportunities to increase economic growth. We use our technology to improve the world, and by doing that we would like to expand all over the world to create opportunities for everyone. Microsoft set goals most are long term, which are to decrease and eventually end poverty and hunger, achieve universal primary education, create equal opportunities for all gender, empower women, reduce child mortality, improve maternal health, combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases, and last but not least ensure environmental sustainability. We would like over a billion people to have their lives changed because of the useful technology. Microsoft is forty six percent of information technology jobs and with their economic growth, about 7.5 percent of related employment will grow in the next few years. By 2013 over 320,000 information technology jobs will be created. To help with charitable activities, Microsoft always try to form partnerships where we can address needs for other countries and form ways to solve the cases. For example we are partnerships with UNIDO (The United Nations Agency) which is responsible for promoting industrial development to help end poverty, but we are included in several other partnerships.