Platform Products and Services Division
The current logo of Microsoft Windows, the company's signature product.This division produces Microsoft's flagship product, the Windows operating system. It has been produced in many versions:
- Windows 3.1
- Windows 95
- Windows 98
- Windows 2000
- Windows Me
- Windows Server 2003
- Windows XP
- Windows Vista.
At the end of 1997, Microsoft acquired Hotmail, the most popular webmail service, which it rebranded as "MSN Hotmail". In 1999, Microsoft introduced MSN Messenger, an instant messaging client, to compete with the popular AOL Instant Messenger. Along with Windows Vista, MSN Messenger became Windows Live Messenger.
Microsoft’s other well-known products include Word, a word processor; Excel, a spreadsheet program; Access, a database program; and PowerPoint, a program for making business presentations. These programs are sold separately and as part of Office, an integrated software suite.
The company also makes software applications for a wide variety of server products for businesses. Microsoft’s Internet Explorer (IE) allows users to browse the World Wide Web.
Among the company’s other products are reference applications:
- games
- financial software
- programming languages for software developers
Input devices such as:
- pointing devices and keyboards
- software for personal digital assistants (PDAs)
- cellular telephones
- handwriting-recognition software
- software for creating Web pages
- computer-related books.
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