Taura muchidimbu ndima inotevera inotaura nezveMicrosoft mumitsara miviri:  Microsoft Corporation ikambani yeAmerica yemakambani akawanda emagetsi ine dzimbahwe rayo muRedmond, Washington. Zvigadzirwa zveMicrosoft zvinonyatsozivikanwa ndezvekushandisa Windows, Microsoft Office suite, uye Internet Explorer uye Edge web browser. Zvigadzirwa zvaro zvepamberi ndezvemavhidhiyo emitambo ye Xbox uye Microsoft Surface lineup yemakombiyuta evanhu. Microsoft yakarongedzwa Nhamba 14 mu2022 Fortune 500 kuverengerwa kwemakambani makuru eUnited States nemari yose; yaive mugadziri mukuru wepasi rose we software nemari kubva muna 2022. Inoonekwa seimwe yemakambani makuru mashanu eAmerica tekinoroji yeruzivo, padivi peAlphabet (kambani yemubereki yeGoogle), Amazon, Apple, uye Meta (yaimbova Facebook).  Microsoft yakavambwa naBill Gates naPaul Allen musi waApril 4, 1975, kuti vagadzire uye vatengese vashanduri veBASIC veAltair 8800. Yakasimuka kuti itonge pamusika wemakombiyuta anoshanda neMS-DOS pakati pemakore ekuma1980, ichiteverwa neWindows. Kambani yacho muna 1986 yakatanga kutengeswa kuvanhu vose (IPO), uye kukwira kwemutengo wemasheya ayo, kwakaita kuti pave nemabhiriyoni matatu uye mamiriyoni 12 000 pakati pevashandi veMicrosoft. Kubva kuma1990, yakawedzera kuwedzera kubva pamusika wekushandisa uye yakaita huwandu hwekutenga makambani, hukuru hwayo kuve kuwanikwa kweLinkedIn kwemadhora zviuru makumi maviri nezvitanhatu zvemadhora muna Zvita 2016, ichiteverwa nekutenga kwavo kweSkype Technologies kwemadhora zviuru zvisere nemazana mashanu emadhora muna Chivabvu 2011.  Kubva muna 2015, Microsoft iri kutonga pamusika weIBM PC inoenderana nehurongwa hwekushandisa uye musika wehofisi software suite, kunyangwe yakarasikirwa nechikamu chikuru chemusika wehurongwa hwekushandisa kune Android. Iyo kambani inogadzirawo huwandu hwakawanda hwevamwe vatengi uye bhizinesi software yedesktops, malaptop, matabhu, zvishandiso, uye maseva, kusanganisira kutsvaga kweInternet (neBing), musika wemadhijitari masevhisi (kuburikidza neMSN), chokwadi chakasanganiswa (HoloLens), cloud computing (Azure), uye kuvandudzwa kwesoftware (Visual Studio).
Microsoft ikambani yesoftware yekuAmerica inozivikanwa nehurongwa hwayo hwekushandisa hweWindows, Microsoft Office suite, uye Cloud Computing (Azure), nezvimwewo. Yakatangwa naBill Gates uye inokosha madhora anodarika tiririyoni imwe.