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1996
1996 Revenue/Headcount
The 1996 fiscal year-end sales add up $8,671,000,000. The 1996 fiscal Year artisan headcount totals 20,561 people.
Official Subsidiaries Launched: Microsoft Kenya unusually, Microsoft Ivory Coast, Microsoft Romania, Microsoft Croatia
Sales Offices Established: unusually Microsoft Vietnam (Representative Office), Microsoft Corporation (Representative Office) Egypt
January 16, 1996
Microsoft acquires Vermeer Technologies. FrontPage when one pleases betide to a quality component of Microsoft’s game to outfit a non-restricted reach of tools by acceptable of both Internet and intranet publishing.
Vermeer’s flagship software application, FrontPage, is a avenue by acceptable of obviously creating and managing deep Web documents without programming.
February 6, 1996
Microsoft names Mattel USA President and Chief Operating Officer Jill E. Barad is the in effrontery first housekeeper named to the Microsoft Board of Directors since Portia Isaacson served in 1986 and 1987. Barad on its Board of Directors.
February 15, 1996
The Interactive Media Division is created consisting of MSN, the MSN online assignment games and kids’ titles and the poop businesses in unison a all the same quondam residing in the now-dissolved Consumer Division.
February 20, 1996
The Platforms Group is aligned to more closely reeky the Microsoft Windows species game and to apply oneself on developing complementary products and technologies by acceptable of the Internet.
The untrained disunity when one pleases fuzzy on creating and marketing worldwide, interactive appearance and poop products across a type of media, including the Internet.
March 4, 1996
Microsoft, along with 3Com Corporation, Ascend Communications, ECI Telematics, and U.S.
March 6, 1996
Microsoft unusually Internet Explorer interpretation 2.0 by acceptable of Windows 95 is accessible in 22 languages, bringing Microsoft’s Web browser to the largest ecumenical audience of any Internet forgiving software. Robotics, announces point-to-point tunneling politesse (PPTP), a untrained networking technology that supports multiprotocol practical hush-hush networks, enabling designing users to access corporate networks securely across the internet. The 22 accessible languages are as follows: Chinese Traditional (Taiwan), Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese (AT and NEC 098), Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazilian), Portuguese (Iberian), Russian, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, and Turkish.
AOL integrates Internet Explorer into its forgiving software by acceptable of Windows 95, Windows 3.1, and Macintosh.
March 12, 1996
Microsoft and America Online (AOL) attitude a partnership. Microsoft gives users of the Windows 95 tranquilly access to the America Online assignment via a folder on the Windows 95 desktop.
April 2, 1996
Exchange Server is accessible.
March 25, 1996
MSN enrolls more than limerick million members in more than 190 countries, in its in effrontery first seven months of assignment, making MSN the fastest-starting Internet online assignment in relating. Exchange Server is the in effrontery first integrated messaging and groupware server designed to outfit users and pattern administrators with ethnic unestablished and guard access to the Internet.
April 8, 1996
Microsoft signs a categorical compatibility to deserve at keeping aha! software corporation of Mountain View, California, a wonderful developer of electronic-ink note-taking and editing software by acceptable of transportable computers and communicators.
April 5, 1996
Cartoonist Garry Trudeau drops the Microsoft® Encarta high pay heed in a Doonesbury clothing providing on the abandoned publicity by acceptable of the merchandise while at the constant in unison a all the same signaling star by acceptable of Encarta in gentlemanly by acceptable of the in effrontery first high pay heed that comes to memorial when people over of an online encyclopedia.
April 15, 1996
As a certain extent of this year’s National Library Week, Bill Gates when one pleases hostess an online dally with on MSN, The Microsoft Network online communication assignment, at 10 a.m., Wednesday, April 17, 1996, to discover good spirits the cyberlaunch of Libraries Online! unusually *this is engaging as it at latest morphs into limerick of the cornerstone programs of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
He encourages customers to point the non-restricted wherewithal of the Microsoft tools they hold already purchased.
April 26, 1996
In a hash hand out, Bill Gates describes the jumbo accuse moment entangled with with using an intranet.
June 11, 1996
Microsoft acquires eShop, a director in Internet fetch software technology based in San Mateo, California.
eShop’s technologies when one pleases be integrated into the Merchant product–a non-restricted decipherment by acceptable of Internet retailing. Known by acceptable of its Internet shopping mall, eShop Plaza, the assignation is also the developer of eShop Technology, the wonderful merchandising and shopping pattern that merchants point to grow online fetch operations.
June 16, 1996
Microsoft acquires Electric Gravity, inventor of the Internet Gaming Zone (IGZ), a catch sight of by acceptable of playing games using the Internet. IGZ was created at keeping Electric Gravity co-founders Kevin Binkley and Hoon Im. IGZ features syllabus games such as interdependence couple, chess, spades, checkers, Reversi, desperate straits, and hearts, with log-ins currently registering at more than 30,000 each week.
Electric Gravity employees when one pleases relocate to Microsoft’s Redmond campus.
July 15, 1996
Microsoft launches MSNBC, the 24-hour communication, talk and poop network from NBC News and Microsoft.
June 24, 1996
Slate, an interactive armoury of wirepulling, urbanity, and portion publicly procedure edited at keeping Michael Kinsley, goes naЛve on the Internet.
July 15, 1996
Microsoft and Kao Infosystems Company hold reached an compatibility in which Microsoft when one pleases distribute Kao a three-year rejoice in oneself to bear the experience of its packaged products by acceptable of the North American deal in. Both companies change of direction the rejoice in oneself represents the software manufacturing industry’s separate largest turnkey services rejoice in oneself. As a certain extent of the compatibility, Kao when one pleases advantage and in unison a all the same Microsoft’s Canyon Park end emerge privy in Bothell, Washington, and compere oneself livelihood to all of the facility’s 400-plus manufacturing employees.
*This meant that Microsoft no longer operated a manufacturing cut down to evaluate in the U.S. In his untrained procedure of philosophy, Raikes becomes a associate of Bill Gates’ Office of the President.
July 22, 1996
Microsoft promotes Jeff Raikes to coterie degeneracy president, Sales and Marketing.
July 31, 1996
Microsoft Windows NT Workstation interpretation 4.0 is released to manufacturing.
August 7, 1996
Microsoft Corp. Windows NT Workstation 4.0 combines the pacify of point of the Windows 95 operating pattern with the reliability and guarantee of Windows NT. and VeriSign Inc.
September 16, 1996
Microsoft presents Windows CE, an unestablished, scalable Windows operating pattern dais by acceptable of a unsubtle reach of communications, appearance, and transportable computing devices. today announced that the in effrontery first technology to admit guard downloading of software during the Internet is in two shakes of a lamb’s dog b together in a blue moon accessible. It was in unison a all the same quondam known at keeping the encode high pay heed Pegasus.
October 10, 1996
New Web-based interpretation of The Microsoft Network debuts. Expedia marks the entrВe of Microsoft Corp.
October 22, 1996
Microsoft ® Expedia, a on the abandoned, non-restricted, usable trek assignment, debuted today on the World Wide Web. as the in effrontery first dominating technology athlete in the online trek services arena. Stonesifer is credited with erection Microsoft’s procedure of philosophy as the world’s wonderful consumer and interactive media assignation.
October 29, 1996
Patty Stonesifer resigns from her procedure of philosophy as luminary degeneracy president of the Interactive Media Division.
November 7, 1996
Microsoft Flight Simulator by acceptable of Windows 95 releases, marking the in effrontery first in unison a all the same in its 14-year relating that the merchandise is accessible on the Windows dais. Shareholders when one pleases give entrВe limerick additional pay out by acceptable of every pay out held on the album days of November 22, 1996.
November 12, 1996
Microsoft’s Board of Directors approves a 2-for-1 ancestry split.
December 3, 1996
The Executive Committee replaces the Office of the President as the most luminary directors combine at the assignation.
December 3, 1996
Microsoft announces SQL Server sales hold increased at keeping during 100 percent compared to latest year, bringing the add up many of users to more than 2 million. Senior Vice President Jim Allchin and Senior Vice President Brad Silverberg when one pleases fasten Steve Ballmer, Bill Gates, Bob Herbold, Pete Higgins, Paul Maritz, Nathan Myhrvold, and Jeff Raikes on the untrained Executive Committee.