* The Science of Word Recognition, by Kevin Larson, Advanced Reading Technology, Microsoft Corporation

The list of partners consists of: Deloitte, KPMG, Microsoft, Oracle Corporation, PricewaterhouseCoopers, SAP, and Symantec.

The new area was led by Allison Mankin and Scott Bradner, and had a directorate with 15 engineers from diverse backgrounds for direction-setting and preliminary document review: The working-group members were J. Allard ( Microsoft ), Steve Bellovin ( AT & T ), Jim Bound ( Digital Equipment Corporation ), Ross Callon ( Wellfleet ), Brian Carpenter ( CERN ), Dave Clark ( MIT ), John Curran ( NEARNET ), Steve Deering ( Xerox ), Dino Farinacci ( Cisco ), Paul Francis ( NTT ), Eric Fleischmann ( Boeing ), Mark Knopper ( Ameritech ), Greg Minshall ( Novell ), Rob Ullmann ( Lotus ), and Lixia Zhang ( Xerox ).

A standard for MIDI over USB was developed in 1999 as a joint effort between IBM, Microsoft, Altec Lansing, Roland Corporation, and Philips.

United States v. Microsoft was a set of civil actions filed against Microsoft Corporation pursuant to the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890 Sections 1 and 2 on May 18, 1998 by the United States Department of Justice ( DOJ ) and 20 states.

* Microsoft Corporation.

ATM vendors NCR Corporation and Diebold Incorporated have both adopted Microsoft Windows XP as their migration path from OS / 2.

Paul Gardner Allen ( born January 21, 1953 ) is an American investor and philanthropist best known as the co-founder of Microsoft Corporation along with Bill Gates, a leading developer of personal-computer software systems and applications.

It was developed by FASA Interactive, owned by Microsoft Corporation, which also produced the title.

SGI was part of the Advanced Computing Environment initiative, formed in the early 1990s with 20 other companies, including Compaq, Digital Equipment Corporation, MIPS Computer Systems, Groupe Bull, Siemens, NEC, NeTpower, Microsoft and Santa Cruz Operation.

Leading software vendors in this field are: Microsoft Corporation ( Microsoft Voice Command ), Digital Syphon ( Sonic Extractor ), LumenVox, Nuance Communications ( Nuance Voice Control ), Speech Technology Center, Vito Technology ( VITO Voice2Go ), Speereo Software ( Speereo Voice Translator ), Verbyx VRX and SVOX.

In partnership with their contractors, Monotype Corporation, Microsoft spent much effort creating a set of high quality TrueType fonts that were compatible with the core fonts being bundled with PostScript equipment at the time.

From December 2003 until October 2005, he worked for Microsoft Corporation in the " patterns & practices " group.

* November 20 – Microsoft Corporation releases the first version of Windows, Windows 1. 0.

Bettman was later sold to Microsoft founder Bill Gates's separate Corbis Corporation, which continues to control the images of UPI and its predecessor agencies, storing them underground in Pennsylvania and digitizing them for licensing, frequently without any notation of their UPI origins.

David Neil Cutler, Sr. ( born March 13, 1942 ) is an American software engineer, designer and developer of several operating systems including RSX-11M, VMS and VAXELN at Digital Equipment Corporation and Windows NT at Microsoft.

* Microsoft Corporation

In November, 2010, TurboHercules announced that it had received an investment from Microsoft Corporation.

IBM, Red Hat, Oracle Corporation and Microsoft are major vendors providing middleware software.

Companies that are current or former ARM licensees include Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Alcatel-Lucent, Apple Inc., AppliedMicro, Atmel, Broadcom, Cirrus Logic, CSR_plc, Digital Equipment Corporation, Ember, Energy Micro, Freescale, Intel ( through DEC ), LG, Marvell Technology Group, Microsemi, Microsoft, NEC, Nintendo, Nuvoton, Nvidia, Sony, NXP ( formerly Philips Semiconductor ), Oki, ON Semiconductor, Psion, Qualcomm, Renesas, Research In Motion, Samsung, Sharp, Silicon Labs, ST-Ericsson, STMicroelectronics, Symbios Logic, Texas Instruments, VLSI Technology, Yamaha, Fuzhou Rockchip, and ZiiLABS.

Examples include Target Corporation ( which began as an internal startup of the Dayton's department store chain ) and threedegrees, a product developed by an internal startup of Microsoft.

Verdana is a humanist sans-serif typeface designed by Matthew Carter for Microsoft Corporation, with hand-hinting done by Thomas Rickner, then at Monotype.

For example, Microsoft hired many programmers to develop the Windows operating system, which is credited simply to Microsoft Corporation.

* E-mail becomes popular ; as a result Microsoft acquires the popular Hotmail webmail service.

* In May, Microsoft acquires Canadian developer BigPark Inc. and integrates them into Microsoft Games.

* Microsoft Studios acquires indie game developer Twisted Pixel Games, known for developing titles including ' Splosion Man and The Gunstringer.

* Microsoft Studios acquires developer Press Play, known for developing Tentacles and Max & the Magic Marker.

* Microsoft acquires Softimage

Just prior to its acquisition by Microsoft in 2000, Bungie released the source code to the Marathon 2 engine, and the Marathon Open Source project began, resulting in the new Marathon engine called Aleph One.

Halo: Combat Evolved, also referred to as Halo: CE, Halo 1, or simply Halo, is a first-person shooter video game developed by Bungie and published by Microsoft Game Studios.

As rumors had predicted, Microsoft announced on June 19, 2000 that it had acquired Bungie Studios.

* Halo ( series ), a video game franchise by Bungie and Microsoft Game Studios

* Halo developers Bungie announced that they would split from Microsoft Studios in order become a privately held independent company.

* Microsoft Studios begins recruiting for 343 Industries to take over development of the Halo franchise after the former developer, Bungie regained independent status.

These include Bungie, Valve Corporation, ArenaNet, Sucker Punch, Monolith Productions, Sony Online Entertainment, Warner Brothers Entertainment, Microsoft Game Studios, and DigiPen Institute of Technology.

For years Downes never appeared at Bungie or Microsoft events, and believes that the Master Chief is left masked because " character's identity is really in the eye of the player ".

A game entitled Green Berets, set in the Vietnam War, was released in 2001 by Take-Two Interactive following their acquisition of the Myth franchise after Bungie was acquired by Microsoft.

Halo is a multi-billion dollar science fiction video game franchise created by Bungie and now managed by 343 Industries and owned by Microsoft Studios.

* Halo, a video game series put out by Bungie and Microsoft

Double Aught was a software company founded by several former members of the Bungie Software team ( prior to Bungie's acquisition by Microsoft ).

It was founded in 2003 by Alexander Seropian — the co-founder of Bungie and head behind the games Halo: Combat Evolved, Myth, and Marathon — and 6 other former Bungie Studios employees 3 years after Bungie's acquisition by Microsoft Corporation.

The two became partners, and Bungie grew to become the best-known Apple Macintosh game developer before being bought by Microsoft in 2001.