Akaretsa serapa se latelang se buang ka Microsoft ka lipolelo tse peli:  Microsoft Corporation ke mokhatlo oa machaba oa theknoloji oa Amerika o nang le ntlo-kholo ea Redmond, Washington. Lihlahisoa tse tsebahalang haholo tsa Microsoft ke Windows, Microsoft Office le Internet Explorer le Edge. Lihlahisoa tsa eona tse hlahelletseng tsa lisebelisoa ke Xbox video game consoles le Microsoft Surface lineup ea likhomphutha tsa touchscreen. Microsoft e behile No. 14 ho 2022 Fortune 500 e behiloeng ke lik'hamphani tse kholo ka ho fetisisa United States ka kakaretso ea chelete; e ne e le moetsi oa software e kholo ka ho fetisisa lefatšeng ka chelete ea 2022. E nkoa e le e 'ngoe ea lik'hamphani tse hlano tse kholo tsa theknoloji ea tlhahisoleseling ea Amerika, hammoho le Alphabet (k'hamphani ea motsoali ea Google), Amazon, Apple le Meta (eo pele e neng e le Facebook).  Microsoft e thehiloe ke Bill Gates le Paul Allen ka la 4 Mmesa, 1975, ho nts'etsapele le ho rekisa bafetoleli ba BASIC bakeng sa Altair 8800. E ile ea phahama ho laola'maraka oa tsamaiso ea tsamaiso ea lik'homphieutha tsa botho le MS-DOS bohareng ba bo-1980, e lateloa ke Windows. Ka 1986 k'hamphani e ile ea etsa tlhahiso ea pele ea sechaba (IPO),'me ea eketsa theko ea eona ea kabelo, e ile ea etsa ba limilione tse likete tse tharo le ba limilione tse likete tse 12,000 har'a basebetsi ba Microsoft. Ho tloha ka bo-1990, e 'nile ea eketseha ka ho eketsehileng ho tloha' marakeng oa tsamaiso ea ts'ebetso'me e entse lik'hamphani tse ngata tsa khoebo, e kholo ka ho fetisisa e le ho fumana LinkedIn bakeng sa $ 26.2 limilione tse likete ka December 2016, e lateloa ke ho fumana Skype Technologies bakeng sa $ 8.5 limilione tse likete ka May 2011.  Ho tloha ka 2015, Microsoft e na le'maraka o ka sehloohong' marakeng oa IBM PC o lumellanang le tsamaiso ea tsamaiso ea tsamaiso le marakeng oa software ea ofisi, le hoja e lahlile boholo ba'maraka oa tsamaiso ea tsamaiso ea tsamaiso ho Android. Khamphani e boetse e hlahisa mefuta e mengata ea software ea bareki le ea khoebo bakeng sa li-desktop, lilaptop, li-tab, lisebelisoa le li-server, ho kenyeletsoa patlo ea inthanete (le Bing), mmaraka oa lits'ebeletso tsa dijithale (ka MSN), 'nete e tsoakiloeng (HoloLens), likhomphutha tsa leru (Azure), le nts'etsopele ea software (Visual Studio).
Microsoft ke k'hamphani ea Amerika ea software e tsebahalang haholo ka sistimi ea eona ea ts'ebetso ea Windows, Microsoft Office suite, le Cloud Computing (Azure), jj har'a tse ling tse ngata. E thehiloe ke Bill Gates'me e feta lidolara tse libilione.