MICROSOFT - Microsoft Student Association

My journey with computers started at the age of 7... Then the little girl was fascinated by "Paint". That was a platform for her to show her creativity. 

Now she is an 18 year old teenager. And she continuous her bond with the world that Microsoft has given her.... 

Microsoft...... This word is almost known to every 4th kid in today’s world..... It starts with paint, word etc..... And goes to outlook, skype, azure n so on.....

The list is never ending....

The journey starts off when her teacher introduces to her Paint. Little hands on the mouse to create a fantasy of her dreams. Then she comes to Word. She learns to express herself in her writings. Things get bigger and better. She learns PowerPoint. She animates her thoughts. She now goes into the outer world. The world where she meets new people. To run at the pace which the rest of the world is running at she gets a Windows phone. Gets on to Skype. Her day starts with Microsoft. And continuous with it.

This is Prathvi Ravindra Prabhu. A second year Computer Science Engg. student at NMAMIT. 

  

In today’s world it is very essential to have the knowledge and skills of working with computers. And the most important softwares are associated with Microsoft. Therefore Microsoft has become an inevitable part of human lives.

Microsoft necessity begins with the most basic need of computers i.e. Operating Systems (OS).

The term Windows collectively describes any or all of several generations of Microsoft Operating System products.

A wide range of softwares for desktops and servers, internet search (with Bing), the video game industry (Xbox), the digital services market (through MSN), & mobile phones (via the Windows Phone OS) are the active areas of the company. 

Word processors have a variety of uses and applications within the business world, home, and education.

Business

Within the business world, Microsoft word is extremely useful tool. Typical uses include:

·         memos

·         letters and letterhead

·         legal copies

·         reference documents

Education

Many schools have begun to teach typing and word processing to their students, starting as early as elementary school. Typically these skills are developed throughout secondary school in preparation for the business world. Undergraduate students typically spend many hours writing essays. Graduate and doctoral students continue this trend, as well as creating works for research and publication. These manuscripts are often in excess of 200 pages, and are typically the defining point of a student's career.  

Home

While many homes have word processors on their computers, word processing in the home tends to be educational or business related, dealing with assignments or work being completed at home. Some use word processors for letter writing, résumé creation, and card creation.

Microsoft Excel is a spreadsheet application developed by Microsoft for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS. It features calculation, graphing tools, pivot tables, and a macro programming language called Visual Basic for Applications.

Microsoft PowerPoint is a presentation program for Windows and OS X. It is used to create slideshows, composed of text, graphics, and other objects, which can be displayed on-screen and shown by the presenter or printed out on transparencies or slides.

Microsoft Access, is a database management system for Windows, that combines the relational Microsoft Jet Database Engine with a graphical user interface and software-development tools. Microsoft Access stores data in its own format based on the Access Jet Database Engine. It can also import or link directly to data stored in other applications and databases.

Microsoft Outlook is a personal information manager from Microsoft. Although often used mainly as an email application, it also includes a calendar, task manager, contact manager, note taking, journal, and web browsing.

Microsoft OneNote is a freeware notetaking program. It gathers notes (handwritten or typed), drawings, screen clippings and audio commentaries. Notes can be shared with other OneNote users over the Internet or a network.

Office Mobile includes the scaled-down and touch-optimised versions of Word, Excel and PowerPoint. Other Office applications such as OneNote, Lync and Outlook are available as standalone apps. Office Mobile enables users to save and access documents on OneDrive, OneDrive for Business, and SharePoint. Additionally, the Windows Phone version also allows users to save files locally on the device.

Skype is a freemium voice-over-IP service and instant messaging client, currently developed by the Microsoft Skype Division. The service allows users to communicate with peers by voice using a microphone, video by using a webcam, and instant messaging over the Internet. Phone calls may be placed to recipients on the traditional telephone networks. Calls to other users within the Skype service are free of charge, while calls to landline telephones and mobile phones are charged via a debit-based user account system. Skype has also become popular for its additional features, including file transfer, and videoconferencing.

MSN (originally The Microsoft Network; stylized as msn) is a collection of Internet websites and services provided by Microsoft.

Microsoft Silverlight is an application framework for writing and running rich Internet applications, with features and purposes similar to those of Adobe Flash. The run-time environment for Silverlight is available as a plug-in for web browsers running under Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X.

Visual Studio includes a code editor supporting IntelliSense as well as code refactoring. The integrated debugger works both as a source-level debugger and a machine-level debugger. Other built-in tools include a forms designer for building GUI applications, web designer, class designer, and database schema designer. Visual Studio supports different programming languages and allows the code editor and debugger to support (to varying degrees) nearly any programming language, provided a language-specific service exists. Built-in languages include C, C++ and C++/CLI, VB.NET, C# and F#. Support for other languages such as M, Python, and Ruby among others is available via language services installed separately. It also supports XML/XSLT, HTML/XHTML, JavaScript and CSS.

The list of softwares available to us from Microsoft is never ending.

I have just highlighted a few softwares that I come across very often. Which clearly implies that Microsoft has a great impact in my life. And it will continue to be a integral part of my future too.

By becoming a part of MSA I would get deeper knowledge about the various softwares and share it with my friends and family.

This program would also help me become a good programmer and create new softwares for the society.

Looking forward to be a part of MSA.... 

Thank You to all my readers...