Microsoft celebrates 50 years

Microsoft is commemorating our 50-year anniversary by celebrating the achievements of our workers, prospects, and companions which have dreamt, constructed, and used Microsoft know-how as a pressure for good, whereas additionally looking forward to the long run. 

Microsoft acknowledges that our success and progress 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 in regards to the One Future, One Sound initiative. 

Over the previous 5 a long time, Microsoft has pushed innovation that has reworked the best way that society makes use of know-how each at work and at residence, from revolutionizing private computing with MS-DOS and Home windows, and bringing the enjoyment and neighborhood 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 prospects and companions. 

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

The center of Microsoft’s mission has all the time been about empowering folks by way of know-how, and this may proceed as we glance to the long run.  

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 folks and companies all through the world to understand their full potential,” which was later expanded to incorporate creating know-how that transforms the best way folks be taught, work, play, and talk. In 2015, CEO Satya Nadella developed Microsoft’s mission “to empower each particular person and each group on the planet to realize extra.” 

As a platform firm, we’ve discovered that we do nicely when the world does nicely. 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 Progress 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 prospects’ wants and work to earn their belief day-after-day. 

We additionally consider deeply within the energy of partnership and that nobody particular person, firm, or authorities can clear up the world’s issues alone. This perception drives Microsoft’s strategy to partnerships, collaboration, openness, and transparency, rooted in bringing folks and organizations collectively to deal with challenges.  

As we glance to the long run, our mission stays to empower each particular person and group, and our success hinges on how we harness AI and different applied sciences to amplify human achievement and create constructive change for society.  

The improvements we’re creating at present will outline the subsequent 5 a long time. And we stay centered on translating innovation into enduring worth for our prospects.   

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