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Students can get a license for Office 365 for free though. The ubiquitous Office 365 is the business software of choice for office applications even though Google docs is gaining ground as the free choice. The company produces a wide range of consumer and enterprise software for desktops, laptops, tablets and servers. Today the Windows OS is on close to 70% of computers in Canada and it's primarily in the business market where companies like HP and Lenovo provide the latest hardware. Gaming : Activision Blizzard: 2021 ($68.7B) Mobile Phones: Nokia Mobile Phones: 2013 ($7.2B) Microsoft is now one of the biggest gaming publishers through this strategy.Įmail: Hotmail/Outlook: 1997 ($500M) - 400 M users Through the years Microsoft, used textbook predator capitalist strategies and acquired an interest in over 350 companies to fend off rivals and buy hot growth high tech companies. Through acquisition Microsoft created Office 365 (Launched in 1990) and leveraged their operating system as a competitive advantage during its marketing. There was even a drawing program called Corel, a Canadian company. IBM PC Circa 1980 with a dot matric printerĭuring these days office software was Lotus 123 for spreadsheets, Harvard Graphics for presentation software and Word Perfect for word processing.
