Fifty years ago, Bill Gates and his childhood friend, Paul Allen, founded a company called “Micro-Soft” in a mall in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Half a century later, the company has consolidated its place between technological giants and classifications as the second largest company in the world. Currently, the only company with a higher market capitalization is Apple, manufacturer of the omnipresent iPhone.
While Microsoft reflects on their past successes in honor of its 50th anniversary of April 50, including Gates that share the original source code, the technological giant is also hurrying to ensure its place among the leaders of the Revolution of Artificial Intelligence. After losing the boat to a large extent on smartphones and change to mobile devices, Microsoft hopes to avoid a repetition of this error and, instead, dominate the fields of cloud computing and generative AI.
Microsoft still dominates office software and operating systems
Microsoft's Windows operating system, originally called MS-DOS, executes most computers in the world. The company also made a name by dominating the office software market, and still supreme queen today.
Once available on Flogpy discs and then CD, the software can now be downloaded on any device thanks to the power of cloud computing. Although its main competitor Google Docs is free for many, Microsoft Office products remain the standard for most world offices.
The attempts to diversify were not always homers
The company has made movements to diversify beyond the office software and operating systems over the years. For example, Microsoft launched Xbox consoles in 2001, presented the Bing search engine in 2009 and acquired the Social Media LinkedIn website in 2016.
Despite these movements, Microsoft's products and services often stay behind their competitors. PlayStations exceed Xboxes almost two to one, Google Search continues to dominate Bing and other social networks websites such as Facebook, Instagram and YouTube exceed LinkedIn.
Microsoft now offer for AI and Cloud Computing
Microsoft is now working hard to boost the future its technological legacy through cloud computing and artificial intelligence. Its Microsoft Azure cloud platform is currently the second largest for market share, although Amazon Web Services (AWS) still leads by a wide margin, and Google Cloud is also gaining popularity.
The company has also made significant movements to strengthen its AI offers. He invested his first $ 1 billion in OpenAI in 2019, and over the years he has invested a total of $ 14 billion. Microsoft has also developed its own internal AI tools, such as Microsoft 365 Co -cilot.
However, the technological giant lacks its own patented silicon chips and is based on other companies to produce these components of the essential AI model. It remains to be seen if Microsoft's other investments will be enough to maintain their legacy for another 50 years, or if you will stay behind other AI companies.
