

Microsoft was founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen on April 4, 1975, to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800. It is considered as one of the Big Five American information technology companies, alongside Alphabet (parent company of Google), Amazon, Apple, and Meta (formerly Facebook). 14 in the 2022 Fortune 500 rankings of the largest United States corporations by total revenue it was the world's largest software maker by revenue as of 2022. Its flagship hardware products are the Xbox video game consoles and the Microsoft Surface lineup of touchscreen personal computers. Microsoft's best-known software products are the Windows line of operating systems, the Microsoft Office suite, and the Internet Explorer and Edge web browsers.

It was released to general AVailability for Windows 10 and for macOS on September 24, 2018.Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational technology corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington. Office 2019/21 is the current version of Microsoft Office, succeeding Office 2016, office 2013 and office 2010.

Support for Office 2016 ended on October 13, 2020.
