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Microsoft is one of the biggest software and IT companies in the world. The industry touches every region of Technology. Its current best-selling products are the Microsoft Windows operating system and the Microsoft Office suite of productivity software. They cover Operation System (Vista and Windows 7), Server and Tools Division (Windows server 2008, VB and SQL), Online Services Business division (MSN and the search engine Bing), Microsoft Business Division (Microsoft Office), and Entertainment Devices Division (smart phones, XBOX and MSN TV). Microsoft mission is to enable people and businesses throughout the world to realize their full potential. It develops software, hardware, service and solution to achieve this goal since it established at 1975 by Bill Gates and Paul Allen in Albuquerque. In 1980, Microsoft formed a partnership with IBM that allowed them to bundle Microsoft’s operating system with IBM computers, paying Microsoft a royalty for every sale. With a real big range of service IT service, we can say the client of Microsoft is unlimited, from OEM, business, and individuals. And the competition is all over from every division, such as Apple in PC Market and Google in Online Service Market. [pic] Yahoo! Was started at Stanford University in January 1994 by Jerry Yang and David Filo. Both of them were Electrical Engineering graduate students when they created a website named “Jerry and David’s Guide to the World Wide Web”. The Guide was a directory of other websites, organized in a hierarchy, to a searchable index of pages. In April 1994, Jerry and David’s Guide to the World Wide Web was then renamed to “Yahoo!”. Unlike Microsoft, they focus more on Online Internet Service. It provides the popular portal website “Yahoo!” with many kinds of application software, such

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