 And You Thought We Just Did Windows
On average, an MBA changes jobs at Microsoft every 18 to 24 months. With innovative technologies, products, and initiatives emerging constantly, you’ll have the freedom you need to chart your own course as you take on new roles and challenges that fuel your passions. |  | "Whether you’re turned on by technology, marketing challenges, global issues, and more, Microsoft is a great place to pursue things you’re passionate about."
- Chike, Marketing Manager, Windows Live Marketing |
There are more than 300 products and services in our portfolio. Here’s just a small sampling of what you can do here. Imagine your possibilities. Home Entertainment
| • | Microsoft at Home—Extend the power of the PC to deliver entertainment, communications, information, and remote control to people anywhere in their homes. | | • | Microsoft® TV—Grow global markets in IPTV, which delivers hundreds of channels and features like video-on-demand to TVs via phone lines. |
Mobile Solutions
| • | Ultra-Mobile PC—Develop a customer base for extremely portable, lightweight, fully-featured, go-anywhere Windows® XP computers. | | • | Windows® Automotive—Expand our automotive industry partnerships in bringing Microsoft technology and tools to bear on a broad range of navigation, communication, information, mobile, and in-car entertainment solutions. |
Business Productivity
| • | CRM/Microsoft Dynamics™—Drive development of our solution for automating and streamlining financial, customer relationship, and supply chain processes in ways that help our customers thrive. | | • | Groove—Increase adoption of Microsoft® Office Groove® 2007, our fleet-footed collaboration software that helps teams work together more effectively—anywhere, anytime, with anyone. |
Games
| • | Xbox®—Continue the gaming revolution that is Xbox, our insanely popular and powerful gaming platform that encompasses Xbox and Xbox 360™ systems, our premier Xbox Live® online gaming service, and unique digital entertainment experiences that revolve around gamers. | | • | Microsoft Game Studios—Build on the success of such Microsoft classics as “Age of Empires®,” “Microsoft® Flight Simulator,” and “Halo®” as you deliver the next generation of bold new gaming visions to global audiences. |
Speech Recognition
| • | Microsoft® Speech Server—Bring speech capabilities into the mainstream by leading the way to speech-enabled applications that are accessible by standard telephones, cell phones, PDAs, Tablet PCs, smart phones, and desktop PCs. |
Supercomputing
| • | Microsoft® Windows® Compute Cluster Server—Expand adoption of this versatile solution that brings the enormous power of high-performance computing to desktop and workgroup computers using a familiar Windows®-based development environment. |
Mapping Systems
| • | Microsoft® Virtual Earth™—Build market penetration for our next generation mapping and location service that combines our Microsoft® MapPoint Web Service with high-demand innovations around bird's eye, satellite, and aerial imagery, map styles, usability, and enhanced local search. |
Online Services
| • | MSN®—Take the lead in pushing innovation in MSN, with broad opportunities in MSN® Search, Windows Live™ Spaces, MSN® Music, Windows Live™ Messenger, video, and dozens of other online services and applications. | | • | Microsoft® Office Live Meeting—Take our popular online collaboration and meeting solution to new heights as you help our customer realize tremendous productivity and cost efficiency gains by enabling them to meet with colleagues, customers, and suppliers without leaving their desks. |
Digital Media
| • | Windows Media® Player—Maximize our market opportunities around the globe for our breakthrough digital media solution for consumers. |
Windows Client and Server
| • | Microsoft® SQL Server™—Broaden our reach into small and mid-sized markets for our comprehensive database platform that provides enterprise-class data management with integrated business intelligence (BI) tools. | | • | Microsoft® Robotics Studio—Cultivate customers for our Windows-based environment that allows academic, hobbyist, and commercial developers to easily create robotic applications for a wide variety of computing platforms. |
Development Platforms
| • | Microsoft® .NET Framework—Nurture developer and partner relationships to expand sales of our widely-adopted common language runtime and class libraries for creating a host of new software applications and Web services. | | • | Microsoft® Visual Studio®—Drive demand for our flagship developer tool platform that simplifies and streamlines the creation of dynamic Windows®, Web, mobile, and Microsoft® Office-based solutions. |
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