Progress with e-commerce

Since Bill Gates founded Microsoft Corporation in 1975, its mission has been to create software for the personal computer that empowers and enriches people in the workplace, at school and at home. Microsoft is now one of the largest companies in the world with a turnover in 1999 of nearly $20 billion. It employs over 30,000 people worldwide, with nearly half the workforce engaged in research and development. Microsoft offers a broad array of products which have become an integral part of the way people…