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On April 3, 2000, a judgment was handed down in the case of United States v. Microsoft Corp., calling the company an "abusive monopoly" and forcing the company to split into two separate units. On June 15, 2000, the company released a new version of its hand-held operating system, Windows CE 3.0. Previous versions of Windows CE supported only a small subset of the WinAPI, the main development library for Windows, and with Version 3 of Windows CE, the operating system now supported nearly all of the core functionality of the WinAPI. The next update to the consumer line, Windows ME (or Windows Millennium Edition), was released on September 14, 2000. On October 7, Microsoft acquired Ally.io, a software service that measures companies' progress against OKRs.

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Formerly codenamed "Longhorn" in the early development stages, Windows Vista was released to consumers on January 30, 2007. Microsoft also released a new version of its Office suite, called Microsoft Office 2007, alongside Windows Vista. On June 15, 2006, Bill Gates announced his plans for a two-year transition period out of a day-to-day role with Microsoft until July 31, 2008. His role as Chief Software Architect was filled immediately by Ray Ozzie, the company's Chief Technical Officer. Microsoft also released the Microsoft Sidewinder 3D Pro joystick in an attempt to further expand its profile in the computer hardware market.

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Microsoft Corporation, based in Redmond, WA, is a global leader in software, services, and solutions with annual sales revenue exceeding $55 billion. The European Commission issued a statement of objections, alleging Microsoft's practice since 2019 gave Teams an unfair market advantage and limited interoperability with competing software. The company has a history of antitrust battles in the U.S. and Europe, with over €2 billion in EU fines previously imposed for similar abuses. In January 2020, the company announced a strategy to take the company carbon negative by 2030 and to remove all carbon that it has emitted since its foundation in 1975. It created one of the world's largest private bus systems, the "Connector", to transport people from outside the company; for on-campus transportation, the "Shuttle Connect" uses a large fleet of hybrid cars to save fuel. Microsoft is an outspoken opponent of the cap on H-1B visas, which allows companies in the U.S. to employ certain foreign workers.

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In May 2016, the company announced it will lay off 1,850 workers, taking an impairment and restructuring charge of $950 million (~$1.21 billion in 2024). During the previous summer of 2015 the company wrote down $7.6 billion (~$9.8 billion in 2024) related to its mobile-phone business and fired 7,800 employees from those operations. The initiative has been an entirely new development API for Windows programming, and included a new programming language, C#. In 2004, https://doc.adminforge.de/1vjW9h1MRymTDe_lgwnFtw/ the company released Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005, a version of Windows XP designed for multimedia abilities, and Windows XP Starter Edition, a version of Windows XP with a smaller feature set designed for entry-level consumers. Microsoft was also ordered to produce separate packages of Windows after South Korea also landed a settlement against the company in 2005. It had to pay out US$32 million and produce more than one version of Windows for the country in the same vein as the European Union-one with Windows Media Player and Windows Messenger and one without the two programs.

• Microsoft Corporation, based in Redmond, WA, is a global leader in software, services, and solutions with annual sales revenue exceeding $55 billion.
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While they mostly focus on European founders, they are open to considering startups from other areas of the world. The Techstars portfolio includes more than 3,300 companies and they currently run 47 mentorship-driven accelerators in over 15 countries. Based in St. Louis, Missouri, Capital Innovators wants to help get your startup to the next level. They offer personalized, hands-on support, wherever you are in the early founder journey. They accept companies from all over the world and offer office space in their location in the heart of Manhattan for the duration of the program.

In April 2018, Microsoft released the source code for Windows File Manager under the MIT License to celebrate the program's 20th anniversary. The project is dubbed "Azure Government" and has ties to the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) surveillance program. On June 4, 2018, Microsoft officially announced the acquisition of GitHub for $7.5 billion, a deal that closed on October 26, 2018. In August 2018, Microsoft released two projects called Microsoft AccountGuard and Defending Democracy. On January 21, 2015, Microsoft announced the release of its first interactive whiteboard, named Surface Hub. On July 29, 2015, Windows 10 was released, with its server sibling, Windows Server 2016, released in September 2016.