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MICROSOFT CORPORATION 7372 - SERVICES-PREPACKAGED SOFTWARE 10-k report- http://w

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MICROSOFT CORPORATION

7372 - SERVICES-PREPACKAGED SOFTWARE

10-k report- http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/789019/000119312513310206/0001193125-13-310206-index.htm

Using this information answer the following question:

a. What is the exact name of your company? What is the ticker symbol for your company, on what stock exchange(s) does it trade, and when is the company's fiscal year end?

b. What industry and primary SIC code is your company in? What types of products does your company sell? Identify a major competitor of your company. You may find the information from finance.yahoo.com or www.google.com/finance.

c. For how many years does the 10-K present complete Balance Sheet? Income Statements? Statement of Cash Flow?

Explanation / Answer

a. What is the exact name of your company? What is the ticker symbol for your company, on what stock exchange(s) does it trade, and when is the company's fiscal year end?

a. Microsoft Corporation, Ticker symbol of Microsoft : MSFT , Exchange Name : Nasdaq, Fiscal year end June 30.

b. The Industry is Prepackaged Software industry with SIC code is 7372-Prepackaged Software

Products include operating systems for computing devices, servers, phones, and other intelligent devices; server applications for distributed computing environments; productivity applications; business solution applications; desktop and server management tools; software development tools; video games; and online advertising.

Major Competitiors are Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Oracle, Red Hat, CA Technologies, Apache, Linux, MySQL, PHP, SAP, BMC, VMware, Adobe, Ruby on Rails, Amazon, Google and Salesforce.com.

Microsoft presents 10-K for 10 years, Annual report on Form 10-K, quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, current reports on Form 8-K, and any amendments to those reports, as soon as reasonably practicable after we electronically file that material with or furnish it to the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”)