Innovation of
new things is such a wonderful job that without this life of a human being
would have been dull, monotonous and lazy. Everybody has power of innovation,
however, to the indivdual capacity and limitations. People with small
innovations also help the society in general but the people with big innovative
ideas do wonders and generate a change in the living of common person. Among
these innovative minds, towards software, are Bill Gates and Paul Allen. The
childhood friends have provided the world, an organization called Microsoft.
Microsoft was
founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen
on April 4, 1975 to develop and sell BASIC.
It rose to dominate the personal computer
operating system market with MS-DOS
in the mid-1980s, followed by the Microsoft Windows.
Since the 1990s, it has increasingly diversified from the operating system
market and has made a number of corporate
acquisitions. In May 2011, Microsoft acquired Skype Technologies for $8.5 billion,
its largest acquisition to date.
Today we are not able to dream a world without computer
application and I cannot imagine my educational life without MS Office - Word, PowerPoint, Excel,
Access, Publisher, Outlook etc.
Every product has its own specialty and these are the best preferred for
accounting, data mgt, seminar, presentations and mail etc. The current
versions are Office 2013 for Windows and Office 2011 for OSX released
on 11/10/12 and 26/10/2010 respectively. The company also produces
a wide range of other software for desktops and servers, and is active in areas
including Internet search (with Bing), the video game industry (with the Xbox,
Xbox 360
and Xbox One
consoles), the digital services market (through MSN), and mobile phones
(via the Windows Phone OS). In June 2012, Microsoft
entered the personal computer production market for the first time, with the
launch of the Microsoft Surface, a line of tablet
computers.
If we think a
little, we can find that Microsoft has impacted all of our lives, and not only
mine, in some way or the other, in fact in every way.
I was introduced
to the wonderful and marvellous machine called computer when I was in second
standard. In the initial school days we the small kids, I remember were not
allowed to touch the computers. Teacher used to ask us to fall in one row. With
great discipline and lots of instructions we were taken to the lab just for
watching ‘Tom and Jerry’, Donald Duck, Small wonders etc. series on the Lab PCs.
Impact
of software on my life
Microsoft is no slave to any introduction in
today’s world. Re-Introducing them would be showing a lamp to the SUN. Today
when people make their CVs, their qualification adds the knowledge of MS office
software’s eg word/excel/power point etc. Microsoft founded on April 4, 1975,
has created an estimated 3 billionaires and 12,000 millionaires out of the
group.
I am writing this article because I have
applied for Microsoft Student Associates and i want to share something
about Microsoft and how it has impacted my life and also how i have
planned to bring a change to the society being a Microsoft Student
Associate.
I would like to share my experience with just
one~two part of MS office software with you all and am sure, we all will
understand how advance/important is the said software. With so much of buzz
word about software’s, nobody has made software where we can see mails offline
(without internet being on). MS office outlook is the only email software which
we are able to use offline after the mails are downloaded. Mail contents and
its attachments are readily available to you any time, every time on offline
mode. No limitations in opening the attachments in complete terms. It is just
like another folder on your PC. Time and again we all felt prey to the
availability of internet to see our already received mails. But with outlook we
are just happy going. You can keep the mails composed and sent. Where ever your
pc catches internet, the mails are sent automatically..... HOW MUCH OF EASE OF
WORK!!!
Another software MS office Excel for data management.
Simplest example is that we can manage our telephone directory/grocery list in any manner. We can sort the data by name,
sir name, phone no or any manner. We can see the no. Of persons carrying same
name, we can count no. Of persons with same sir name etc. In other datas we can
make sum/total/average/count of nos etc with just one mouse click.....ACTUALLY
WE CAN PLAY WITH DATA AND THAT IS PLEASURE!!!!
I remember my father working on similar data’s
during his professional career. He would jumble with lot of
pen/pencil/eraser/scale/multi colour pens and still he was not fully sure of
his ledger/data register. But now with a click of mouse the Excel data sheet is
coloured for categories. We can even sort the data by colour. I actually feel working
with MS office Excel is like playing with a ball...it is Ease of life.
