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The Evolution of Microsoft's Information Technology : Report

   

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Running head: RESEARCH PROJECTResearch projectName of the Student:Name of the University:Author note:
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1 RESEARCH PROJECTExecutive summaryThis report discusses the evolution of information technology from its initiation to its currentstage and social impact of IT industry in the business of Microsoft. This chapter is to analyse theMicrosoft’s emergence in the industry and how they evolved and became an internationalcompetitor in the business. Further, the research review and conceptual framework of theresearch base is given and project budget and project schedule is described in the chapter. Theresearch methodology and data collection process is also given. The research includes bothprimary and secondary data collection and analysis of the data. The organisation of the study hasbeen highlighted as different chapters and thus it will balance the flow of the chapters for anyreaders. The sampling technique and the research method is also thoroughly discussed in thefollowing company. Further, the organisation of the study done on the impact of IT in thisbusiness is also given in the following chapter.
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2 RESEARCH PROJECTTable of Contents1. Introduction..................................................................................................................................52. Background of the study..............................................................................................................53. Research aims and objectives......................................................................................................63.1 Aims.......................................................................................................................................63.2 Objectives..................................................................................................................................63.3 Problem statement.....................................................................................................................63.4 Research questions.....................................................................................................................74. Literature review..........................................................................................................................84.1 Conceptual framework...........................................................................................................84.2 History and development of information technology............................................................94.3 Rise of Microsoft...................................................................................................................94.4 Social impact and challenges faced by Microsoft...............................................................114.5 Impact of information technology in society.......................................................................114.6 External factors and issues faced by software engineers.....................................................125. Research methodology...............................................................................................................135.1 Introduction..........................................................................................................................135.2 Research approach...............................................................................................................135.3 Data collection method........................................................................................................135.4 Factors that needs to be considered.....................................................................................14
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3 RESEARCH PROJECT5. 5 Sampling method................................................................................................................145.6 Sample size..........................................................................................................................156. Organisation of the study...........................................................................................................157. Project Budget...........................................................................................................................17
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4 RESEARCH PROJECT1. IntroductionMicrosoft is one of the well-known global competitors of the IT business. The firstoperating system that they used was MS-Dos and after that, they started their business inpersonal computers (Bahr et al., 2013). This report discusses the evolution of informationtechnology from its initiation to its current stage and social impact of IT industry in the businessof Microsoft. First, they were in business of manufacturing different hardware for computers andthen they moved to exclusively in software business. Information technology business hasbenefitted from this company hugely. Microsoft Windows was a new operating system with theexisting systems like, Linux and Java (Tasevska, Damij & Damij, 2014). Further, theorganisation of the study done on the impact of IT in this business is also given in the followingchapter. This chapter is to analyse the Microsoft’s emergence in the industry and how theyevolved and became an international competitor in the business. Further, the research review andconceptual framework of the research base is given and project budget and project schedule isdescribed in the chapter (Kim, 2013). The organisation of the study has been highlighted asdifferent chapters and thus it will balance the flow of the chapters for any readers. The samplingtechnique and the research method are also thoroughly discussed in the following company(Christensen & Raynor, 2013). The sample size and the sampling tools and techniques arediscussed later in the chapter. 2. Background of the studyThe background of this study is based in the study of IT sector growth over the years anddifferent products that have been developed to make the human life easier. The purpose of thisresearch also is to study the stimulation of developing the IT products and applications in
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5 RESEARCH PROJECTeveryday life of people (Christensen & Raynor, 2013). The social impact after developing theproducts and the different demography of people who likes to use these products in theireveryday lives.3. Research aims and objectives3.1 AimsThe focused aim of this research is to gather information on the development ofMicrosoft as global competitors. In addition, another aim is to study the emergence ofInformation technology and in accordance with Microsoft.3.2 ObjectivesTo study the supporting role played by IT behind the growth of MicrosoftTo study the external factors that the company has faced during the initial stage and alsoin the next years and the social impact of their products and innovationsTo study the impact of other companies innovations in their systemTo study information technology from its initial to current stage 3.3 Problem statementThere also have been some challenges for this industry in the last two or three decades.The fear of reaching the stagnant stage has hit the industry in most cases. The most importantpart of innovation that the company has faced in their initial stages and during their growth andmature stage what are the plans and approach that, they have taken. Moreover, the problems,
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