Microsoft provides software including Windows and Microsoft 365, the Azure cloud platform, games and business hardware. It also develops tools and AI services for organizations and individuals.
History and development
Bill Gates and Paul Allen started Microsoft in 1975 in Albuquerque, developing early personal-computer software such as BASIC for the Altair. Operating systems, productivity software and enterprise systems followed. Its cloud business extends that longer history of providing computing environments.
References: Microsoft: history