What is Microsoft?
{{Infobox company | name = Microsoft Corporation | logo = Microsoft logo and wordmark.svg | logo_alt = A square divided into four sub-squares, colored red, green, yellow and blue (clockwise), with the company name appearing to its right | image = Building92microsoft.jpg | image_caption = Building 92 at Microsoft Corporation headquarters in Redmond, Washington, in 2016 | type = [[Public company|Public]] | traded_as = {{Unbulleted list|{{NASDAQ|MSFT}}|[[NASDAQ-100]] component|[[Dow Jones Industrial Average|DJIA]] component|[[S&P 100]] component|[[S&P 500]] component}} | ISIN = US5949181045 | industry = {{Unbulleted list|[[Computer software]]|[[Computer hardware]]|[[Consumer electronics]]|[[Social networking service]]|[[Cloud computing]]|[[Video game industry|Video games]]|[[Internet]]|[[Corporate venture capital]]}} | founded = {{Start date and age|1975|04|04}} in [[Albuquerque, New Mexico|Albuquerque]], [[New Mexico]], U.S. | founders = {{Plainlist| * [[Bill Gates]] * [[Paul Allen]] }} | hq_location = [[Microsoft Redmond campus|One Microsoft Way]] | hq_location_city = [[Redmond, Washington|Redmond]], [[Washington (state)|Washington]] | hq_location_country = U.S. | area_served = Worldwide | key_people = {{Plainlist| * [[John W. Thompson]] ([[chairman]]) * [[Brad Smith (American lawyer)|Brad Smith]] ([[President (corporate title)|president]] and [[Chief legal officer|CLO]]) * [[Satya Nadella]] ([[Chief executive officer|CEO]]) * [[Bill Gates]] ([[technical advisor]]) }} | products = {{Flatlist| * [[Microsoft Windows]] * [[Microsoft Office|Office]] * [[Microsoft Servers|Servers]] * [[Skype]] * [[Microsoft Visual Studio|Visual Studio]] * [[Microsoft Dynamics|Dynamics]] * [[Xbox]] * [[Microsoft Surface|Surface]] * [[Microsoft Mobile|Mobile]] * [[List of Microsoft software|List of software]] }} | services = {{Flatlist| * [[Microsoft Azure|Azure]] * [[Bing (search engine)|Bing]] * [[LinkedIn]] * [[Microsoft Developer Network|MSDN]] * [[Office 365]] * [[OneDrive]] * [[Outlook.com]] * [[Microsoft TechNet|TechNet]] * [[Micr