Microsoft celebrates 50 years

Microsoft is commemorating our 50-year anniversary by celebrating the achievements of our workers, clients, and companions which have dreamt, constructed, and used Microsoft expertise as a pressure for good, whereas additionally looking forward to the longer term. 

Microsoft acknowledges that our success and development globally wouldn’t have been potential with out the assist of the place we name residence, the Puget Sound. We’re honoring and awarding 50 native changemakers with $50,000 grants every to assist the essential work they do to deal with the wants of the area. Learn extra concerning the One Future, One Sound initiative. 

Over the previous 5 a long time, Microsoft has pushed innovation that has remodeled the best way that society makes use of expertise each at work and at residence, from revolutionizing private computing with MS-DOS and Home windows, and bringing the enjoyment and group of gaming to everybody on the planet with Xbox, to driving the way forward for cloud computing with Azure, and AI transformation with Copilot and our AI platform. We’re happy with our workers, previous and current, who’ve seized the chance to reinvent our firm as tech paradigms shift, to remain related and earn the belief of our clients and companions. 

For extra info on the corporate’s key milestones, discover this timeline of Microsoft’s journey. 

The guts of Microsoft’s mission has at all times been about empowering individuals via expertise, and this may proceed as we glance to the longer term.  

In its beginnings, Invoice Gates and Paul Allen articulated an bold imaginative and prescient for Microsoft and the trade, “a pc on each desk and in each residence.” In 2002, the mission modified “to allow individuals and companies all through the world to appreciate their full potential,” which was later expanded to incorporate creating expertise that transforms the best way individuals be taught, work, play, and talk. In 2015, CEO Satya Nadella advanced Microsoft’s mission “to empower each individual and each group on the planet to realize extra.” 

As a platform firm, we’ve discovered that we do properly when the world does properly. That’s embodied in our mission, our enterprise mannequin, our practices and our tradition. Our cultural journey is ongoing and adaptive, and during the last decade, we’ve grounded ourselves in a Development Mindset tradition. Internally, this has helped our workers embrace challenges, be curious, be taught from failures, and constantly search enchancment. Externally, this cultural transformation has enabled Microsoft to higher perceive and meet our clients’ wants and work to earn their belief on daily basis. 

We additionally imagine deeply within the energy of partnership and that nobody individual, firm, or authorities can clear up the world’s issues alone. This perception drives Microsoft’s method to partnerships, collaboration, openness, and transparency, rooted in bringing individuals and organizations collectively to sort out challenges.  

As we glance to the longer term, our mission stays to empower each individual and group, and our success hinges on how we harness AI and different applied sciences to amplify human achievement and create optimistic change for society.  

The improvements we’re creating immediately will outline the subsequent 5 a long time. And we stay targeted on translating innovation into enduring worth for our clients.   

We’re additionally recommitting ourselves to the framework that has made us profitable – investing in our individuals, dwelling as much as our mission, incomes the belief of our clients and the international locations we function in, innovating responsibly, prioritizing fundamentals with safety above all else, and constructing merchandise the place the world can profit.