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[[FILE:Building92microsoft.jpg|border|right|thumb|320px| Building 92 on the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Redmond_campus Microsoft Redmond campus] <ref>[https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Building92microsoft.jpg Building 92] at Microsoft Corporation headquarters in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redmond,_Washington Redmond, Washington]. Photographed by user [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Coolcaesar Coolcaesar] on 30 May 2016, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Commons Wikimedia Commons]</ref> ]]
'''Microsoft Corporation''',<br/>
a multinational computer technology corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of software products for computing devices,
headquartered in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redmond,_Washington Redmond, Washington], USA.
Microsoft was founded in 1975 by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gates Bill Gates] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Allen Paul Allen],
to develop and sell [[Basic|BASIC]] interpreters for the [[8080]] based [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altair_8800 Altair 8800],
to rose and dominate the home computer operating system market with [[MS-DOS]], followed by [[Windows]] and associated applications most notably the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Office Microsoft Office suite] as well as development tools and compilers like [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Visual_Studio Microsoft Visual Studio] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_C%2B%2B Visual C++],
co-developed by [[Eugene Nalimov]] <ref>[https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=271642 About compiler optimizations] by [[Frédéric Louguet]], [[Computer Chess Forums|CCC]], December 19, 2002</ref>.
=Bill Gates on AI=
Remark by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gates Bill Gates] on the [[Conferences#IJCAI2001|17. IJCAI 2001]], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle Seattle], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington Washington], USA, August 7, 2001 <ref>[http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/exec/billg/speeches/2001/08-07aiconference.aspx Remarks by Bill Gates, International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Seattle, Wash., August 7, 2001]</ref>:
Microsoft was founded about 25 years ago, and I can remember at the time thinking, "Well, if I go out and do this really commercial stuff, I’m going to miss these big advances in [[Artificial Intelligence|AI]] that will be coming very soon." (Laughter.) And so I come from the school of AI optimist. You know, I can remember being at [[Harvard University|Harvard]] and back then AI was the [[Mac Hack|Greenblatt Chess Program]] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxima_%28software%29 Maxima] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA Eliza] and people literally felt that within five to ten years that some of these tough problems would be solved.
=Chess Programs=
* [[Ziggurat|WinChess]] <ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Entertainment_Pack Microsoft Entertainment Pack from Wikipedia]</ref>
* [[Chess Titans]] <ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess_Titans Chess Titans from Wikipedia]</ref>
=See also=
* [[Apple]]
* [[Intel]]
* [[MS-DOS]]
* [[Windows]]
=Publications=
* [[Feng-hsiung Hsu]] ('''2005'''). ''Hardware Related Research at Microsoft Research Asia''. [[Advances in Computer Games 11#Invited|Advances in Computer Games 11 - Invited Lecture]]
=External Links=
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft Microsoft from Wikipedia]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Letter_to_Hobbyists Open Letter to Hobbyists from Wikipedia]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Research Microsoft Research from Wikipedia]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Developer_Network Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN) from Wikipedia]
* [https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/chess-find-and-reproduce-heisenbugs-in-concurrent-programs/?from=http%3A%2F%2Fresearch.microsoft.com%2Fen-us%2Fprojects%2Fchess%2F CHESS - Microsoft Research] a tool for finding and reproducing [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unusual_software_bug Heisenbugs] in concurrent programs
=References=
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'''[[Organizations|Up one Level]]'''
[[FILE:Building92microsoft.jpg|border|right|thumb|320px| Building 92 on the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Redmond_campus Microsoft Redmond campus] <ref>[https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Building92microsoft.jpg Building 92] at Microsoft Corporation headquarters in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redmond,_Washington Redmond, Washington]. Photographed by user [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Coolcaesar Coolcaesar] on 30 May 2016, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Commons Wikimedia Commons]</ref> ]]
'''Microsoft Corporation''',<br/>
a multinational computer technology corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of software products for computing devices,
headquartered in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redmond,_Washington Redmond, Washington], USA.
Microsoft was founded in 1975 by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gates Bill Gates] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Allen Paul Allen],
to develop and sell [[Basic|BASIC]] interpreters for the [[8080]] based [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altair_8800 Altair 8800],
to rose and dominate the home computer operating system market with [[MS-DOS]], followed by [[Windows]] and associated applications most notably the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Office Microsoft Office suite] as well as development tools and compilers like [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Visual_Studio Microsoft Visual Studio] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_C%2B%2B Visual C++],
co-developed by [[Eugene Nalimov]] <ref>[https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=271642 About compiler optimizations] by [[Frédéric Louguet]], [[Computer Chess Forums|CCC]], December 19, 2002</ref>.
=Bill Gates on AI=
Remark by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gates Bill Gates] on the [[Conferences#IJCAI2001|17. IJCAI 2001]], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle Seattle], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington Washington], USA, August 7, 2001 <ref>[http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/exec/billg/speeches/2001/08-07aiconference.aspx Remarks by Bill Gates, International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Seattle, Wash., August 7, 2001]</ref>:
Microsoft was founded about 25 years ago, and I can remember at the time thinking, "Well, if I go out and do this really commercial stuff, I’m going to miss these big advances in [[Artificial Intelligence|AI]] that will be coming very soon." (Laughter.) And so I come from the school of AI optimist. You know, I can remember being at [[Harvard University|Harvard]] and back then AI was the [[Mac Hack|Greenblatt Chess Program]] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxima_%28software%29 Maxima] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA Eliza] and people literally felt that within five to ten years that some of these tough problems would be solved.
=Chess Programs=
* [[Ziggurat|WinChess]] <ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Entertainment_Pack Microsoft Entertainment Pack from Wikipedia]</ref>
* [[Chess Titans]] <ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess_Titans Chess Titans from Wikipedia]</ref>
=See also=
* [[Apple]]
* [[Intel]]
* [[MS-DOS]]
* [[Windows]]
=Publications=
* [[Feng-hsiung Hsu]] ('''2005'''). ''Hardware Related Research at Microsoft Research Asia''. [[Advances in Computer Games 11#Invited|Advances in Computer Games 11 - Invited Lecture]]
=External Links=
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft Microsoft from Wikipedia]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Letter_to_Hobbyists Open Letter to Hobbyists from Wikipedia]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Research Microsoft Research from Wikipedia]
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Developer_Network Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN) from Wikipedia]
* [https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/chess-find-and-reproduce-heisenbugs-in-concurrent-programs/?from=http%3A%2F%2Fresearch.microsoft.com%2Fen-us%2Fprojects%2Fchess%2F CHESS - Microsoft Research] a tool for finding and reproducing [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unusual_software_bug Heisenbugs] in concurrent programs
=References=
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'''[[Organizations|Up one Level]]'''
