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Management Style and Microsoft Corporation

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being that it was the first to take complicated operating systems and manage them so that everyone could use them. Thanks, also, to a series of strategies (some of whom  claim are illegal), Microsoft also managed to ingratiate itself on the majority of the worlds desktop systems The company is visionary, making its  living not on inventing new products or services, but simply making those in existence stronger. This is what happened when Bill Gates and Paul Allen, in 1980, purchased QDOS (short  for "quick and dirty operating system") from a Seattle programmer for $50,000, renamed it MS-DOS, and ultimately wrote the system for IBM PCs -- and IBM was the leader in  PCs at the time (Lower, 2004). Another strength is the internal treatment of employees. Rather than being required to toe the corporate line,  Microsoft prefers that its employees think like entrepreneurs and go out of the box when it comes to development of new products and services. Thanks to this philosophy, Microsoft has  become the worlds number one software offering products and services, ranging from the Windows operating systems and Office software suites, to Internet access (Lower, 2004).  Weaknesses. The main weakness is that what drove Microsoft toward success also drove the company toward the courts. Though Microsoft did employee marketing strategies that were "consistent with  its long-run objective of profit maximization," the company also ended up violating anti-trust laws and in the long run, was charged with illegal conduct (El Shazly and Butts, 2002, 346).  The company basically strove to undertake a number of illegal maneuvers to end up preserving its monopolistic powers in the operating systems market (El Shazly and Butts, 2002). Furthermore, the