Founded in 1975, Microsoft (Nasdaq “MSFT”) is the worldwide leader in software, services and solutions that help people and businesses realize their full potential.

Microsoft is committed to being a responsible industry partner, working with businesses, communities, and governments to help advance social and economic well-being. Over the past three decades, Microsoft has expanded their business from the United States into more than 90 other countries, and they now employ nearly 60,000 people globally. While Microsoft, by many measures, could be considered the world's most successful software company, it is also a local company and a neighbor in every country and community where Microsoft employees live, work, and do business.

As a successful global corporation, Microsoft’s goal is to use their resources and influence to make a positive impact on the world and its people. At Microsoft, their passion to do well is matched by their desire to do good.  Microsoft believes the best way to achieve those parallel goals is to align their business and global citizenship strategies. To reach that goal, Microsoft consults their own employees, and with people in government and industry from many parts of the world, to create a citizenship framework that  both reflects and enhances the other aspects of their business.