时间:2018-12-28 作者:英语课 分类:世界名牌博览


英语课
微软,是一家总部位于美国的跨国科技公司,也是世界PC(Personal Computer,个人计算机)机软件开发的先导,由比尔·盖茨与保罗·艾伦创办于1975年,公司总部设立在华盛顿州的雷德蒙德(Redmond,邻近西雅图)。以研发、制造、授权和提供广泛的电脑软件服务业务为主。
最为著名和畅销的产品为Microsoft Windows操作系统和Microsoft Office系列软件,目前是全球最大的电脑软件提供商。
微软在2013年在世界500强企业排行榜中排名110位,2014年排名第104位[1]  。
2015年1月,在第66届艾美奖[2]  上,国家电视艺术和科学学院为微软颁发了“电视功能强化设备奖”。2015年7月9日,微软宣布对手机业务进行根本性重组,同时表示将削减至7800多个职位。[3]  2015年10月据美国CNBC报道,微软将在新一轮裁员仲裁撤1000个岗位。新裁员是在之前宣布的裁员基础上额外追加的。[4] 
微软于2016年1月12日终止对IE8、9、10的技术支持。[5] 
2016年6月8日,《2016年BrandZ全球最具价值品牌百强榜》公布,微软排第3名。[6] 
2016年6月13日,微软将以每股 196 美元,合计 262 亿美元的全现金收购包括 LinkedIn 公司的全部股权和净现金。
 

Microsoft is one of the best-known companies in the world. Almost everyone uses a Microsoft product. These include the Windows operating systems, Hotmail and MSN, MS Word, Excel and PowerPoint, and the Bing search engine. The Financial Times ranks it as the third largest company on the planet. It has created four billionaires and around 12,000 millionaires among its 93,000 employees. The company was founded by Bill Gates in 1975 and slowly became the number one name in computing 1. It generates over $50 billion a year in revenues. The company website outlines its values as follows: “As a company, and as individuals, we value integrity, honesty, openness, personal excellence 2, constructive 3 self-criticism, continual self-improvement, and mutual 4 respect.”
 
 


1 computing
n.计算
  • to work in computing 从事信息处理
  • Back in the dark ages of computing, in about 1980, they started a software company. 早在计算机尚未普及的时代(约1980年),他们就创办了软件公司。
2 excellence
n.优秀,杰出,(pl.)优点,美德
  • His art has reached a high degree of excellence.他的艺术已达到炉火纯青的地步。
  • My performance is far below excellence.我的表演离优秀还差得远呢。
3 constructive
adj.建设的,建设性的
  • We welcome constructive criticism.我们乐意接受有建设性的批评。
  • He is beginning to deal with his anger in a constructive way.他开始用建设性的方法处理自己的怒气。
4 mutual
adj.相互的,彼此的;共同的,共有的
  • We must pull together for mutual interest.我们必须为相互的利益而通力合作。
  • Mutual interests tied us together.相互的利害关系把我们联系在一起。
学英语单词
a very old science
Alluri
anthrozoological
antiphospholipid syndrome
apricot core grain
arteria (pl. -riae)
azimuth to intercept
ball-bearing with clamping sleeve
basketball backboard
bayldonite
behavio(u)ral medicine
bifunction
branchial cyst
cash-purchase
chaperonins
chemicals measuring tank
clerkdoms
coincident flash method
computerscam
contruth
convival
corner sampling
cornering force
cryoglobulin test
Cryptojaponol
cubature units
cushioning packaging
diehead threading machines
drop error
egg and spoon race
egg apple
exteroceptors
field ionization source
gasoline-electric bus
gonochorist
grllage
happy paths
hoopajoop
householder
hydroxonium ion
intracardiac phonocardiograph
james polks
key signatures
La Hien
last day of school year
litmocidin
low flow period
lunar phase
lye vat
macrobotrys
main receiving station
make a convert of someone
mastoideal
mid-earth
middle stratosphere
Mitchell thrust bearing
moon languages
national-cultural
new green
nimbiol
oap
ODA
Ojuelaite
outgoer
outside broadcast programme circuits
parryoides
part-chilled roller
patent information services
predestined relationship
pterolichus obtusus
random access discrete addressing system
recompresses
reservoir trap
reset and start
rotor pocket
rubber spring
Sakaba
sambhar
sarkar
sequential data structure
sero-albumen
ses
slag practice
slathers
solar semidiurnal tide
spectrum-sliced
speech morphology
St-Genis-Laval
St. Ambrose
ST_birds_other-wild-birds
stabbin
steering gear column bushing
tanker design
theodolite repeating
tunica vaginalis communis
ultrasonic development diagnostic instrument
urogynaecological
volatile storage
Walhalla
Watanabe
water droplets in clouds