Internet Institution Case Study [Microsoft Live]

Who owns the site..?!
Bill Gates & Paul Allen

Do they own any traditional media businesses..?!
Products
Microsoft Windows
Microsoft Office
Microsoft Servers
Windows Developer Tools
Microsoft Expression
Business Software
Games
Xbox 360
Windows Live
Windows Mobile
Zune

What other internet sites do they own..?!
Windows Live, and "Bing"

What is their revenue/Overall worth..?!
US$ 60.420 billion

Fives facts about the business..!
* Key People in the business:
Bill Gates (Chairman)
Steve Ballmer (CEO)
Ray Ozzie (CSA)
Craig Mundie (CRSO)

* The ensuing rise of the company's stock price has made four billionaires and an estimated 12,000 millionaires from Microsoft employees.

* In late 2001, with the release of the Xbox, Microsoft entered the multi-billion-dollar game console market dominated by Sony and Nintendo.

* The company produces MSN TV, formerly WebTV, a television-based Internet appliance.

Quotes:
One commentator notes that Microsoft's original mission was "a computer on every desk and in every home, running Microsoft software."
LINK:
(^ Bishop, Todd (September 23, 2004). "The rest of the motto". Todd Bishop's Microsoft Blog (Seattle Post-Intelligencer). http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/microsoft/archives/003469.html. Retrieved on 2007-01-22)


"Your potential. Our passion."
LINK:
^ a b "The Rise and Rise of the Redmond Empire". Wired. December 1998. http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/6.12/redmond.html. Retrieved on 2008-08-18.


"McCann Thinks Local for Global Microsoft".
LINK:
Adweek. http://www.vnuemedia.com/aw/login/login



“ Large media corporations (including the movie companies and record companies), together with computer companies such as Microsoft and Intel, are planning to make your computer obey them instead of you.”
LINK:
Richard Stallman, founder of the Free Software Foundation