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[[https://microsoft.com Microsoft Corporation]] is an American-based multinational tech conglomerate founded in 1975 by Bill Gates and Paul Allen.

They are best known for developing the Platform/MicrosoftWindows PC MediaNotes/OperatingSystem (which much of the world runs on), UsefulNotes/MSPaint, along with the Xbox brand of VideoGameSystems ({{Platform/Xbox}}, Platform/Xbox360, Platform/{{Kinect}}, Platform/XboxOne, and Platform/XboxSeriesXAndS).
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!!Microsoft products with their own pages:
* Platform/MicrosoftWindows
** UsefulNotes/MicrosoftOfficeAssistant
*** [[Advertising/MicrosoftOfficeXP Microsoft Office XP ad campaign]]
** UsefulNotes/MSPaint
* Platform/{{MSX}} (in collaboration with ASCII Corporation)
* Platform/{{Xbox}} (original)
** Platform/XboxLive
** Platform/Xbox360
*** Platform/{{Kinect}}
** Platform/XboxOne
** Platform/XboxSeriesXAndS

!!Microsoft subsidiaries (with pages on this wiki):
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[[folder: Current subsidiaries ]]

* '''Microsoft Gaming''' (video game development and publishing)
** Creator/XboxGameStudios
*** Creator/ThreeFourThreeIndustries
*** Creator/TheCoalition
*** Creator/CompulsionGames
*** Creator/DoubleFine
*** Creator/TheInitiative
*** Creator/InXileEntertainment
*** {{Creator/Mojang}}
*** Creator/NinjaTheory
*** Creator/ObsidianEntertainment
*** Creator/PlaygroundGames
*** {{Creator/Rare}}
*** Creator/TurnTenStudios
*** Creator/UndeadLabs
** [=ZeniMax=] Media
*** Creator/ArkaneStudios
*** {{Creator/Bethesda}}
*** Creator/IdSoftware
*** Creator/MachineGames
** Creator/ActivisionBlizzard
*** Creator/{{Activision}}
*** Creator/RadicalEntertainment
*** Creator/RavenSoftware
*** Creator/HighMoonStudios
*** Creator/{{Sierra}}
*** Creator/BlizzardEntertainment
*** [=King.com=]
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[[folder: Former subsidiaries ]]

* '''Xbox Game Studios'''
** {{Creator/Bungie}}
** Creator/CarbonatedGames
** Creator/DigitalAnvil
** Creator/EnsembleStudios
** Creator/FASAStudio
** Creator/LionheadStudios
** Creator/PressPlay
** Creator/TwistedPixel
[[/index]]
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