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
Aguaray
aliium triquetrum
aphanurus mugilus
athen
atom-blitz
avalanch breakdown
BA (binary add)
baldassares
baldrib
bed covering
being on
book dealer
breast-augmentation
broth of a man
butchart
carry a tune
cathode lightshield
ceratostyle
cerebrospinal ganglia
chevigny
conversion of surplus value into profit
cornette
crescent shaped separator
cryptochalite
cyclohexadienylene
D'Entrecasteaux Channel
dasymachalon rostratum merr. & chun
dau de havelle
dc-coded picture
dianisoylurea
distichophyllum obtusifolium thir.
douradine
embigin
evaporated volume
eyewashed
filmometer
flower seller
footlock
giraffe
global irradiation
glucuronoglycan
haematoplastic
Harfleur
high level data link control system
high-speed facsimile
hunt effect
imbrocata
knowledge-based pay
Kyakhta
laser gain
laughs away
leading locomotive
legal capacity to make contracts
lenovo group
LESP
main steam turbine set
Margaret of Scotland
misserye
mordant pigment
mukandoes
multi media kit
musculature function
myocardial infarctions
narrow-band-selective receiver
National Reporter System
Nhon Hau
Old Folks at Home
on-line editor
oxycardioresirograph
parchment layer
partition of inheritance
phase diagram of reservoir hydrocarbon
pig breaker
quartz-ceramics
real movement
retrievable key word
rob somebody of something
rockerish
ruckman
samboos
scapulohumeral type
scrotal mass
segmental rays
seigneuress
serodeterminant
standard vice
string-band
Sturm-Liouville problem
tea-stained
ten-pounds gasoline
throat to port area ratio
Tongue, Kyle of
transcendality
tube plate stay
unpalliated
Urubu, Cachoeira do
visiblenesses
vor refining
walkingway
weighting
wilde