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。
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a rose between two thorns
air quality simulation model
AirFuel
antilysim
Basutolanders
Bazex syndrome
blancol
boserups
breche (la breche riviere)
bridle butts
carbohydrate binder
cartographical climatology
centimeter gram
champignon
Chellaston
colon descendens
complete digestion
congenital preauricular cyst
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correction copy
depth-first procedure
deuterogyny
dezi
disgerminator
distance measuring equipment
domain business knowledge
domoto
Donfar
electroneutrals
equatorial buffer zone
even the score
extent of damage
finger gateway commands
fluorescent x-ray spectrographic analysis
gain spectrum
gain-time
general inquiry
gilstrap
grain filling
higher algebra
hindleg
hold the key of
hot forging drawing
initiating charge
innovation-development process
interlobar fissure
irizarrys
legon
Limfjorden
liquidation by longs
lusinchi
magnetic-ferrite memory
mesothecium
midstage
moment equilibrium condition
Montsoult
multi-purpose freighter
myalgic
nasobuccal
neuroomatidia
new type constructor
non-conformances
nondivisible
Osmanthus polyneurus
other-woman
Oxiconum
pay secrecy
pertuse
phalamycin
phenyldibromoarsine
planetary wave
PMFIS
polyamide resin
Port-d'Envaux
portable laser rangefinder
posterior malleolar fold
progress time curve
prostratin
Pseudoborniopsida
rawps
real atmosphere
recomendations
Richard Kuhn
Road Transport Bureau
shock-rock
Shrapnell
solid ballast
sound masking
spark-coil
stuerne
thoracic sympathetic ganglionectomy
tool-shed
undercover agent
unmentioned
upswaying
Venus Bank
water-spreading
Wesleyan University
wild - goose chase
window-wall
wrestling matches
Yudam-ri