How Microsoft changed my life

Innovation of new things is such a wonderful job that without innovative ideas the life of a human being would have been dull, monotonous and lazy.  Everybody has this power of innovation, however, to his 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 society. Among these helping innovative minds, towards software’s, are Bill Gates and Paul Allen. The childhood friends have provided an organization called Microsoft. 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 in 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. Every product has its own specialty and these are the best to prefer for accounting, data mgt, seminar, paper presentations and mail etc. The current versions are Office 2013 for Windows, released on October 11, 2012 .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 2^nd standard at my school. My school had regular computer class right from the 2nd standard. In the initial school days we the small kids, I remember was not allowed to touch the computers. Teacher used to ask us to fall in one row and with a great discipline and lots of instructions we were taken to the lab just for watching ‘Tom and Jerry’, Donald Duck, Small wonders etc. series in the PCs. When we got the permission to touch the computers and for the first time I switched it on the first thing that caught my site was the colourful Windows 98 Logo. It was like “love at first sight” for me with the computers and with the software because at that age the only thing I knew was ‘what is hardware?’ and about software I had no idea

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 part of MS office software with you all and we all will understand how advance 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 mail 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 happy going. You can keep the mails composed and sent. Where ever your pc catches internet, the mails go out 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 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.....ACTUALLY WE CAN PLAY WITH DATA AND THAT IS PLEASURE!!!!I remember my father working on some data’s during his professional career. He would jubble 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 with a ball...it is Ease of life.