Top largest software companies in world 2016:
The top
10 companies in the 2016 Forbes list for the "Software &
Programming" industry are listed below
|
Rank
|
Organization
|
Sales
|
Market cap
|
Headquarters
|
|
1
|
$97.58
|
$340.8
|
Redmond, WA, US
|
|
|
2
|
$38.8
|
$187.6
|
Redwood City, CA, US
|
|
|
3
|
$23.3
|
$90.2
|
Walldorf,
Germany
|
|
|
4
|
$6
|
$35.7
|
Palo Alto, CA, US
|
|
|
5
|
$6.6
|
$16.3
|
Mountain View, CA, US
|
|
|
6
|
$5.2
|
$21.1
|
Noida,
UP, India
|
|
|
7
|
$5.1
|
$19
|
Brookfield, WI, US
|
|
|
8
|
$4.6
|
$27.1
|
Mountain View, CA, US
|
|
|
9
|
$4.5
|
$19.8
|
Madrid,
Spain
|
|
|
10
|
$4.3
|
$14.3
|
Islandia, NY, US
|
All
values listed in the table are in billion US$, Forbes lists market
capitalization as of May 2016.
Microsoft
Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational technology headquartered
in Redmond, Washington, that develops, manufactures, licenses,
supports and sells computer
software, consumer electronics and personal computers and services. Its best known software
products are the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems, Microsoft Office office suite, and Internet Explorer . Its flagship hardware products are the Xbox video game consoles and the Microsoft Surface tablet lineup. As of 2011, it was the world's largest software maker by revenue, and one of the world's most valuable companies.
Microsoft was founded by Paul Allen and Bill Gates on April 4, 1975, to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800. It rose to dominate the personal computer operating system market with MS-DOS in the mid-1980s, followed by Microsoft Windows. 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. 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,[10] and in December 2016 bought LinkedIn for $26.2 billion.
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