Microsoft Corporation

Microsoft Corporation - American multinational organization headquartered in Redmond, Washington. Their specialization is to provide services and software that can help both as people and businesses in realization of potential fully. The company has employed more than 90000 people (55000 were based in the U.S., 39000 - in other countries). There are a lot of partners (approximately 640000) that provide development, marketing, selling. Also they create a lot of jobs and increase the local and global economic situation. There are several CSR issues that are key for the Microsoft Corporation such as security, free expression, privacy and labor rights. Being one of the leaders in corporate citizenship they understand that that they can do more than nowadays.Microsoft Corporation is one of the highly responsible companies. According to the CR magazine it deserves to be in the top 100 of socially responsible organizations in the world. What is more important, this company gets the third place according to the magazine and they aims to be the best company in this segment. The program of corporate social responsibility by Microsoft Corporation, according to the official website, involves several spheres that their actions of the program are aimed at.

Compliance. First of all, it's compliance policy. The companies operate according to the law and they do not mistake in adhering of their internal compliance policy. Also, they follow the antitrust decisions and use principles, which maintain innovation, opportunities and choice for developers about new products and services.

As for ongoing litigation, there several actions that are currently against company:

* Litigation with Motorola in different countries

* About 60 patents infringement in other cases

* All class actions except three cases that are under jurisdiction of Canada were resolved.

Financial Performance. In comparison with previous year, this company has an increase of $3.76 billion and their revenue nowadays is about $74 billion. One of the factors that affect the revenue is product strategy that helps to deliver technologies to the market. However, the official website does not provide full information about their financial activity, but we can say surely that Microsoft does not have any serious problems in financial sphere.

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