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To enable people
and businesses throughout the world to realize
their full potential.
Delivering on
this mission requires a clearly defined set
of values and tenets. Our company values are
not new, but have recently been articulated
to reinforce our new mission.
Great
people with great values
Achieving our
mission requires great people who are bright,
creative, and energetic, and who possess the
following values:
•
Integrity
and honesty
•
Passion
for customers, partners and technology
•
Open
and respectful with others and dedicated
to making them better
•
Willingness
to take on big challenges and see
them through
•
Self
critical, questioning and committed
to personal excellence and self-improvement
•
Accountable
commitments, results and quality to
customers, shareholders, partners
and employees
Tenets
that propel our mission
The tenets central
to accomplishing our mission include:
•
Customer
trust. This means earning customer trust
through the quality of our products
and our responsiveness and accountability
to customers and partners.
•
Broad
customer connection. This means connecting
broadly with customers, understanding
their needs and uses of technology,
and providing support when they have
questions or concerns.
•
Innovative,
evolving and responsible platform
leadership. This means expanding platform
innovation, benefits, and opportunities
for customers and partners, openness
in discussing our future directions,
getting feedback, and working with
others to ensure that their products
and our platforms work well together.
•
Enabling
people to do new things. This means
broadening choices for customers by
identifying new areas of business,
incubating new products, integrating
new customer scenarios into existing
businesses, exploring acquisition
of key talent and experience, and
integrating more deeply with new and
existing partners
•
A global
inclusive commitment. This means thinking
and acting globally, employing a multicultural
workforce that generates innovative
decision-making for a diverse universe
of customers and partners, innovating
to lower the costs of technology,
and showing leadership in supporting
the communities in which we work and
live.
•
Excellence.
This means excellence in everything
we do to deliver on our mission.
At Microsoft,
we're committed to our mission: improving
the potential of our customers, and the world.
