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
AC arc
active augmentation system
Agago
agaricus campestris fr a.bisporus sp.mushroom
as-cast condition
average lifetime
Balls out
Baltimorons
beam-draft ratio
berscillogenin
better citizenship
Bighorn River
bodianus bilunulatus
Bow River
burden sheet
can hardly refrain oneself
carryin
cast forth
center loading
cerebromeningeal
coil kit
collar finder
concomitant variable
condenser lens
dayers
decimemide
delta granules
diamicton
digeneaside
dilating pain
duly stamped
edible part
effective-call meter
female and young animal
geoelectrics
government publication
hardware-software tradeoff
Heteromi
homicide death
Huk-to
infinite direct product
inflow effective
infrared optical plastic
intermediate level solid waste
intervarietal hybridization
izonsteride
jet skier
joint-owner
kef
kindermuseum
leucosome
lexical meanings
Lindores, Loch
main generator breaker
mantraps
maximum resistive cutoff frequencies
mechanism of aging
narasin
noise isolation unit
nutual action
omics
oxystearin
paludes
passive homing system
payment on land shares
pharyngeal carrier
photoelectric alarm
port current
portioning
process control sequence
productoid
psychosis from inanition
pulsating flow of mean constant flow-rate
raucedo syphilitica
reciprocating piston cooling pipe
resonoscope
rubik
Saussurea leucophylla
second month of winter
Selacryn
sensitive period to teratogenic agent
serially reusable program
side drums
single nostril
slip-coat
soil quality assessment
standard timing
structural surface effect
subliming ablator
sulfato
supository
tap-drill
tetraphernl hydrazine
three categories
three-rail
tresches
trimeton
undergrounding
uveomeningitis
vena phrenicas
Walmersley
Warren Pt.