And Poll Allen came up with and developed a Basic interpreter for the new, recently released Altair computer. They quickly signed an agreement with computer developers and were able to make a profit of one million dollars in their first year of operation.
In 1978, the first international subsidiary of Microsft was opened in Japan. Which was a significant breakthrough in the work. After all, entering the international market, in any case, allows you to find new buyers, which increases sales, and therefore the company's income.
In 1981, the company was able to buy the DOS operating system and modify it for IBM (the new name MS ‑ DOS appeared, which stands for Microsoft Disk Operating System). Which, in principle, led her to success. The developers of the company sold their successfully modified materials at a rather low price, which is why they enjoyed great success and recognition among users. After all, such useful developments for such affordable price many companies wanted to acquire.
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In 1983, Allen left Microsoft, selling his shares for $ 10 apiece. This deal eventually made him one of the richest people in the world: in 2011, he was ranked 57th in Forbes magazine with a capital of $ 13 billion.
In 1985 Microsoft releases its most famous product - Microsoft Windows version 1.0. It was a graphical shell for DOS (not yet an operating system). In the same year, Microsoft began developing an all-new OS / 2 operating system for IBM computers. The event required a lot of resources.
And in 1986, Microsoft had an IPO for $ 21. Many thought it was not the best solution, but due to the fact that the company was rapidly gaining momentum and increasing income, the shares sold out very quickly. On the sale of securities, the creators were able to raise $ 61 million.
In 1987, Microsoft implements its OS / 2 operating system. The company also invested in the development of office applications.
Since 1990, the release of the operating room began Windows systems(not just a graphical add-on, but a full-fledged OS). And the release of this product led the company to tremendous success. In the first two weeks, it sold over a hundred thousand copies, and three years later the company stopped producing other systems altogether, as Windows was bringing in huge revenue.
Microsoft continues to work with Windows. Constantly develops updates, new versions, and also works with mobile platforms and search engines.
Interestingly, before the iPAD appeared, Microsoft introduced its tablet to the market, but for a number of reasons it did not gain popularity.
In 2011, Microsoft bought Skype.
In 2013, MS buys Nokia, experts believe that this will help to compete fully with Apple and Samsung.
- The best way organize Data Science in a company After the world exploded with the flood of big data, companies around the world began researching the consequences of this “big bang”. Data science, designed to provide business with not just information, but knowledge, has reached Russia. On the one hand, local corporations are starting to build their own data centers, wanting to get the latest technology at the lowest cost. On the other hand, the players different spheres market open their own departments dealing with Data Science. Data is becoming one of the main assets for a business, and the profession of a data scientist is especially attractive and highly paid.
- One solution for all systems: how market leaders ensure safety One of the key factors in ensuring the security of companies is the management of IoT devices and OT networks, for which traditional solutions are not suitable. The risks of a lack of awareness (lack of "education") of employees and the actions of cybercriminals can be compensated for by a set of actions and measures that will increase the overall level of enterprise security, coupled with an improvement in the situation with data protection inside and outside the infrastructure.
- Beyond the Perimeter: How Own Employees Threaten the Safety of Companies According to forecasts in the coming years, the most significant trends that will affect the IT industry will be: artificial intelligence and machine learning, the ongoing adoption of cloud computing, developments in the field smart devices, homes and factories, as well as the upcoming rollout of 5G networks. And as cybersecurity experts point out, these technological changes will raise questions information security already in 2019.However, despite the emergence of new technologies and the evolution of existing ones, companies' own employees are still the weakest area in the IT security perimeter of organizations. According to statistics, phishing and social engineering are the key ways for cybercriminals to infiltrate enterprise infrastructure.
- How to Save $ 2 Million in Capital Expenditures During the construction of storage systems, many different tasks have to be solved: how to transfer data to a backup data center without interrupting the main work for a second; unite into a single whole many completely different backup systems; choose a storage that will have the lowest scaling costs, and so on. All these tasks can be solved by using NetApp products.
- Why private clouds haven't caught on in business Moving away from private clouds, global companies are increasingly adopting a multi-cloud strategy. Experts attribute this to the need for rapid digitalization, and enterprises themselves are ready to strengthen multi-cloud models in the coming years.
MOSCOW, July 29 - RIA Novosti, Natalia Dembinskaya. In mid-July, loud news came from Microsoft: the company officially stopped supporting the mobile operating system. Windows Phone which is still powered by millions of devices. The corporation had to admit: smartphones do not bring it any profit. In recent years, the market share of Windows Phone has been steadily declining, and now it has practically bottomed out - 0.1%. Why there was no place at all for the operating system on the market, what the defectors to Android blame for Windows Phone and whether Microsoft will be able to take revenge on Google and Apple - in the RIA Novosti article.
Nice start
Immediately after its introduction in 2009, Windows Phone managed to take a solid market share - almost 10%. Then the mobile market was dominated by Symbian, on which the first Nokia smartphones operated - it occupied more than 50% of the market, the second largest player was the mobile OS RIM of the then popular manufacturer Blackberry - the famous phones with a full-fledged qwerty keyboard (20.9%). Android was then only trying to find its place in the sun, occupying only about 4%.
A money-losing startup Android Inc., which developed an operating system for wearable devices, was bought by Google back in 2005, just in case, and only remembered it in 2007, when Steve Jobs introduced the first Apple iPhone.
Google quickly realized: the smartphone market is almost empty, and expensive Apple devices will not be able to fill it entirely.
The rapid rise of Android
At the end of 2009, confusion began on the smartphone market. Nokia had already slowed down the development of Symbian by then and relied on Windows Mobile. And Google, in turn, has reached an agreement with the Taiwanese manufacturer HTC. The first device under Android became HTC smartphone Dream, which was a resounding success.
iOS and Android began to develop rapidly, but Apple's position, which prohibited third-party companies from using iOS, played not in its favor. In 2011, with the release of Ice Cream Sandwich, Android was already called "the most advanced operating system", manufacturers Samsung smartphones, Alcatel, Philips, LG began to migrate en masse to a new promising platform. As a result, Android has eaten away almost 50% of the market, squeezing out all the old-timers from it in one fell swoop. Analysts began to count the rapidly decreasing share of Symbian and RIM in the "other operating systems" category.
On the battlefield, Android, Apple and Windows Phone are virtually three. The latter confidently kept afloat - largely thanks to the release of popular smartphones Nokia Lumia, which gave a second life to the Finnish phone manufacturer itself.
Devices based on Windows Phone were also produced by LG.
Nokia got mad at Microsoft
However, the Finns soon began to show dissatisfaction. In 2013, Nokia VP Brian Biniak blamed Microsoft for the lack of competitive applications for Windows platforms Phone. It was for this reason that Nokia Lumia sales began to decline, he assured.
The annoyance eventually spilled over into the switch to Android. So far, on the latest version of the Windows Mobile 10 platform (its support, as observers believe, will be discontinued soon, and finally Windows smartphones will die by 2021), some HP and Acer models are "sitting".
In 2015, the new head of Microsoft, Satya Nadella, officially acknowledged the failure of Windows Phone.
“The smartphone boom showed that Windows Phone was far behind Android and iOS, and we missed that train,” Nadella said.
Closed file system
What exactly led app makers and developers to ditch Windows Phone and opt for Android?
Ballmer believes Nokia acquisition will accelerate Windows Phone growthTalking about the recently announced deal to buy Nokia's smartphone business, Ballmer said it will "accelerate the growth of Windows Phone and strengthen the overall device ecosystem."Experts believe that the main disadvantage is primarily the underlying closed file system which causes compatibility problems for applications and prevents them from working properly. Unlike Android, Windows Phone and Windows Mobile have limited options for customizing applications. The smartphone does not have Google services, it is inconvenient to work with setting up contacts there. And finally, there are several times fewer applications for this platform compared to Android.
"Success is a terrible teacher," Microsoft founder Bill Gates once said. The corporation itself, a long-term leader in the market of operating systems for PCs, has stepped on the same rake. As it turned out, Microsoft was not ready for the onset of the post-computing era.
"Google and Apple have moved forward with modern operating systems and Microsoft continued to view mobile devices as a third-party, by-product, "observers say.
Lack of change and sluggishness
Experts point out that there have been no changes since the introduction of Windows Mobile 6.1. iOS and Android have updated design and functionality every year. In Windows Phone, this was out of the question - the system remained monolithic and static.
"What kind of personalization? It's the age-old strict office style, the Explorer web browser and the permanent cut-and-paste function," technology portal Quora notes ironically.
Application developers quickly realized that their products for fast-growing platforms looked much more attractive than on Windows. Now there are only about 165 thousand applications in the Windows Phone Store catalog. For comparison: there are about 900 thousand of them in the AppStore, and in Google play- almost a million.
WITH the advent of Windows Phone 7.5 Microsoft tried to catch up, but it was too late. As a result, and with Windows Phone 8, Microsoft found itself in a span: even the solid hardware stuffing of Nokia did not help, observers state.
What's next
The "funeral" of Windows Phone analysts at IDC has planned for 2021 - by that time it will completely disappear from the market, including latest version Windows Mobile 10. In the meantime, Microsoft does not intend to say goodbye to it and releases Microsoft Lumia phones based on it (in 2014, it bought Nokia's business for the production mobile devices for 5.44 billion euros).
However, in the near future Microsoft is going to "kill" Lumia and release its new smartphone Surface Phone still has the same tiled interface. In April of this year, the company assured: it will revise its strategy and return to the mobile market with a new vision and new ideas. The market, however, has no doubt that Microsoft will not be able to step into the same river twice.
The best way to understand a candidate is to make them nervous. This is probably the opinion of Microsoft too. Today we are sharing the questions that were asked at an interview in one of the largest manufacturing companies in the world. software.
1. Find out how to keep fresh milk in my refrigerator.
Position: Summer intern candidate
2. Show us an example of a resource with a cool design.
Position: User Experience Design candidate
3. How can you tell how well a deck of cards is shuffled?
4. Why wouldn't you go to work for Google?
Position: Senior Business Development Manager
5. What do you think of Microsoft solution to launch Office products on iPhone?
Position: Senior Business Planner
6. Why are the hatches round?
Position: Software Development Engineer
7. How would you design the shuttles that would run around the Microsoft campus?
Position: Program manager
8. The infamous “hands question” - how many times each day do the hour and minute hands intersect?
Position: Software Development Engineer
9. How would you solve the problem of slow startup of programs on a laptop / computer?
Position: Customer service advisor
10. Explain what recursion is to a 5-year-old child?
Position: Software Engineer
11. How would you design the airport?
Position: Program Manager
12. Given the time, how do you determine the angle between the hour and minute hands?
Position: Software Development Engineer candidate
13. How would you form relationships with colleagues who work outside the country?
Position: Executive Business Administrator
14. Create GPS system for 16 year olds.
Position: Product Manager
15. Describe difficult relationships between colleagues.
Position: Senior Program Manager
16. Build a list of words used in the novel, taking into account the repetitive ones.
Position: Software Development Engineer
17. If you were in an elevator with a CEO of a company, how would you describe the cloud system in 90 seconds?
Position: Technical Account Manager
18. If you were standing in a crowd of people, how could you stand out among them?
Position: Site Manager candidate
19. You have a stylus for your device. How do you store it? How do you charge? What do you use it for?
Position: Mechanical Design Engineer
20. Come up with a research plan for a brand new product that people will wear.
Position: Design Researcher
21. If you had the opportunity to choose whether to be invisible or learn to fly, which would you prefer?
Position: High Level Product Lead candidate
22. One candidate (woman) was asked: “Describe any instances you have experienced sexism or misogyny at work.”
Position: Program Manager candidate
23. How would you explain to your grandmother what to do with the PC if it doesn't work?
Position: Support Engineer
24. What obstacles should you overcome (or not overcome) during the project?
Position: Intern
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Address Email and phone number. This information may be needed for more reliable 2-Step Verification when performing actions related to changing key parameters. account.
What is 2-Step Verification?
Why is Microsoft suggesting additional addresses and phone numbers?
In this case, you will receive a code for the second stage of authentication, even if you find yourself without a phone and / or forget the password to one of the email addresses.
In other words, providing additional data reduces the risk of account blocking. You can add up to 10 email addresses and / or phone numbers to your account.
Zip code is not accepted when creating a Microsoft account. What index should I enter?
Before entering the index, enter the email address you want and make sure it's free.
- Make sure to select your country.
- Enter your postcode... If that doesn't work, enter any zip code for your country's capital or largest city. For example:
- 121087 (Moscow)
- 194100 (Peter)
- 01001 (Kiev)
- 200400 (Minsk)
What are Microsoft's requirements for account password complexity?
The password must be at least eight characters long. In addition, in your account settings on the Microsoft website, you can set a requirement to change your password every 72 days.
What to do when you can't sign in to your account?
What should I do if my account is blocked?
If these steps did not help you regain access to your account, create a temporary account and contact Microsoft free tech support
Trusted PCs
Strictly speaking, the concept of a trusted PC is not new as it relates more to the aspects of Microsoft account management rather than Windows. However, Windows 8 introduces features that only work on trusted PCs.
Why Trust Your PC?
The main point of a trusted PC is to simplify a series of actions related to changing and synchronizing confidential data.
On the one hand, only trusted Windows PCs can sync credentials. In Windows 8, you had to manually make your PC trusted, and in Windows 10, only the first time you used a specific Microsoft account on that PC. In other words, in Windows 10, after reinstalling the system and logging in with the same Microsoft account, you no longer need to trust the PC.
On the other hand, a number of account settings can be changed from a trusted PC without additional authentication, although in some cases it may still be necessary.
Which PCs should be trusted?
Obviously, this should be your personal PC. You shouldn't trust a public or work computer.
How do I make my PC trusted?
In Windows 10, go to Settings - Accounts - Your details. If you do not see the option shown in the picture, your PC is already trusted.
You can also do this on the Microsoft Account Settings site by signing in from that PC. Instructions.
How do I remove a trusted PC?
You can only delete all trusted devices at once. Go to this page (you need to sign in to your account).
Working with a Microsoft account on Windows
Windows 8 was the first Microsoft operating system in which you can create a Microsoft account and switch between it and your regular account without losing your familiar environment.
How is a Microsoft account different in Windows from a regular local account?
A Microsoft account on Windows is the most common local account that you sign in with your Microsoft credentials. She has exactly the same profile (% UserProfile%), she can also belong to any groups (for example, Users and Administrators), etc. You can always link any local account to your Microsoft account, or you can end the link.
After installing the system
On Windows 10 go to Options — Accounts and switch to Microsoft account.
How do I go from using a Microsoft account to a regular account?
On Windows 10 go to Options — Accounts and switch to your regular account.
Can I sign in with a Microsoft account without an Internet connection?
Of course! You only need to be connected to the Internet when you create a Microsoft account or switch to using a local account.
Credentials are cached locally, just like in a domain environment, so you don't need to be connected to the Internet when you sign in.
Can I sign in to Windows without a password if I have a Microsoft account?
Synchronizing settings and apps in Windows
In my opinion, synchronization is one of the most useful opportunities Windows, though, can be fraught with surprises.
Which apps are covered by Settings Sync?
Shop only. This also applies to automatic login v Microsoft applications with a company account (Mail, Skype, etc.).
Traditional Microsoft apps don't know how to pull their settings from the cloud and automatically recognize that you are using a Microsoft account (OneDrive is rather an exception).
Can I turn off sync for specific apps?
No, you can only disable groups, see the picture above
How do I turn off sync completely?
Use the very first switch in the picture above
Diagnosing problems
If you have a problem switching to or using a Microsoft account, follow these diagnostic steps in sequence:
- Make sure you can sign in with a Microsoft account at https://account.live.com/
- Run Microsoft Accounts troubleshooter
- V command line running as administrator, run sfc / scannow
If a message appears stating that the files cannot be restored, zip the \ Windows \ Logs \ CBS \ CBS.log file.
- Remove third-party firewall and antivirus.
If the problem persists, post a report of your actions, CBS.log and the result of the Microsoft Accounts troubleshooter in this forum thread.
Archive (irrelevant information)
The information in this section of the article has lost its relevance over time, as well as due to numerous changes in Skype.
I decided to devote a separate section to Skype, as I am sure that many blog readers use it.
Skype versions
There are two versions of the app:
How Skype and Microsoft accounts get along
You can:
- link both accounts
- sign in to Skype with any of the two accounts, regardless of whether they are linked
What are the benefits of merging accounts?
You will be able to sign in to Skype with a Microsoft account. In a traditional app, you don't need to remember another password, and in a modern app, you don't need to enter any credentials at all.
The general contact list will be displayed in traditional and modern Skype applications allowing you to communicate with contacts from Windows Live Messenger. On the other hand, the same picture will be in the "People" application, which will extend all its capabilities to Skype contacts.
However, Skype cannot completely replace WLM in a number of ways. So, it is impossible to transfer files from Skype to WLM and vice versa, and group chats also do not work. Also, it is not possible to link Skype and WLM contacts.
How to link a Microsoft account to a Skype account
Communication can be done in both traditional and modern applications.
Traditional Skype
The feature is available in versions 6 and higher. Sign in with a Microsoft account (if you automatically sign in to Skype, sign out to see this option). You will see the window shown in the picture below.
Attention! Do not select the "Register" option if you have has already Skype account. Otherwise, your Microsoft account will be immediately linked to your new Skype account.
Modern Skype
Immediately after installation, you will be presented with exactly the same choices as in a traditional application. Therefore read bold red warning above.
How to unlink Microsoft account from Skype account
I hope I have answered all the questions you asked in the comments to the previous post. If you have new questions feel free to ask them so that I can complete this article. However, this proposal does not mean that I undertake the obligation to resolve the Problems... With them you can contact Microsoft free tech support by creating a temporary account if necessary.
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