Īs of 2015, Microsoft is market-dominant in the IBM PC compatible operating system market and the office software suite market, although it has lost the majority of the overall operating system market to Android. Since the 1990s, it has increasingly diversified from the operating system market and has made a number of corporate acquisitions, their largest being the acquisition of LinkedIn for $26.2 billion in December 2016, followed by their acquisition of Skype Technologies for $8.5 billion in May 2011. The company's 1986 initial public offering (IPO), and subsequent rise in its share price, created three billionaires and an estimated 12,000 millionaires among Microsoft employees. It rose to dominate the personal computer operating system market with MS-DOS in the mid-1980s, followed by Microsoft Windows. Microsoft (the word being a portmanteau of ' microcomputer software' ) was founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen on April 4, 1975, to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800. It is one of the Big Five American information technology companies, alongside Google, Amazon, Apple, and Meta. 21 in the 2020 Fortune 500 rankings of the largest United States corporations by total revenue it was the world's largest software maker by revenue as of 2016. Its flagship hardware products are the Xbox video game consoles and the Microsoft Surface lineup of touchscreen personal computers. Its best-known software products are the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems, the Microsoft Office suite, and the Internet Explorer and Edge web browsers. Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational technology corporation which produces computer software, consumer electronics, personal computers, and related services. For Office specifically, you can try your luck on Microsoft's own site at. While we try and get free software into the hands of students, we understand the frustration on finding out your school doesn't support these discounts. I'm not paying 200 bucks for Software that I have to buy again because Microsoft doesn't offer free updates. I'm sad enough that I need to use proprietary software for my studies but at least there should be a student discount. That is actually misleading advertisement and I'm pretty sure it's against the law in Europe.

If not every student is eligible than don't call it a student price. But instead every official site redirects me here where it says enter your school and if I do that I'm not eligible.

Well it's great that my school doesn't have the expensive deals with Microsoft so that I can get it for free but at least there should be some way to buy the software with a student discount.

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