Business Groups

Microsoft Business Solutions

In Microsoft Business Solutions our business is all about helping our customers and their people make important decisions—with confidence. Our flagship line—Microsoft Dynamics—is already used by leading companies worldwide, and we’re continually making it more flexible, easy to use and customizable. Within the MBS family, you’ll find:

• Microsoft Dynamics CRM, a customer relationship management solution that provides the tools and capabilities needed to create and maintain a clear picture of customers, from first contact through to purchase and post-sale.
• Microsoft Dynamics AX, a comprehensive enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution for midsize and larger organizations that empowers people to work effectively, manage change and compete globally.
• Microsoft Dynamics GP, a complete and scalable business-management solution that helps growing and midsize organizations get up and running quickly while maximizing the productivity of their people.
• Microsoft Dynamics NAV, a business-management solution for small and midsize organizations that helps simplify and streamline highly specialized business processes by rapidly adapting to the unique way companies do business, enabling their people to be effective and the business to be competitive.
• Microsoft Dynamics SL, a business-management solution specialized to help project-driven midsize organizations obtain reports and business analysis while helping to increase efficiency, accuracy and customer satisfaction.

Microsoft Office Division

Every day, millions of people and businesses everywhere use our products. And they do more than use them—they depend on them to turn their ideas and inspirations into reality. In the Microsoft Office Division, we create new tools that increase productivity, helping people do what they do better and more efficiently.

• Microsoft Office and related products—including Office Web Apps, Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Visio—deliver rich and powerful new ways for people to create their best work.
• The Servers and Solutions group includes Exchange, Lync, Project and SharePoint products that help information workers connect and collaborate.
• Office 365 is the culmination of more than 20 years of experience delivering world-class productivity solutions to people and businesses of all sizes. It brings together Office, SharePoint, Exchange, and Lync in an always-up-to-date Cloud service.
• Our Microsoft Speech Technologies group delivers the Cloud-based speech recognition found in Xbox, Windows Phone, Bing Mobile, Windows, Exchange and other products and services.
• The Educational Products team works to transform the future of education. Through our Education Labs, we’re imagining and building prototype software you might see in classrooms in the not too distant future.

Online Services Division

The best way to predict the future is to create it—and that’s exactly what we do in the Online Services Division. Our mission is to shape Microsoft’s software and services strategies, continually reinventing the way people live their lives online. We create the services, technology, and portals hundreds of millions of people rely on to get the information they need when they need it.

Server & Tools Division

We build the advanced technologies and rock-solid foundation used by the world’s leading developers, IT professionals, and designers to bring their ideas and creations to life. But the Server & Tools Business is about more than servers and developer tools—here you’ll find core technologies ranging from virtualization, storage systems, security, and IT to business management software and online communities.

Windows and Windows Live Division

We create the operating system, applications, and services that bring Windows to the PC and Internet. Our work ranges from the Windows Operating System to Windows Live to Internet Explorer.

Windows is more than just the backbone of your PC—it allows people around the world to communicate, manage busy schedules, share digital memories, succeed at school or work, and just have fun. People want everything they do online and offline to be fast, easy, safe, and reliable. In the Windows Division, our job is to make magic through both the everyday and the unexpected.

The Windows team is redefining and rethinking the way people and devices interact with the Windows operating system and Windows Live services like Hotmail, Spaces, and Photos. We’re revolutionizing the user experience and taking the Windows kernel, storage, networking, and device platform to unprecedented levels of reliability, performance, security, and functionality.

Internet Explorer is the world’s window into the Web, designed for the way real people use the Internet. We’re always working to make Internet access faster, easier, and safer.

Windows Phone Division

In the Mobile Communication Business, we’re creating the future of mobile technology. Our teams develop and drive the Windows Phone to market by developing rich user experiences and partnering with original equipment manufacturer (OEMs) and mobile operators.

Corporate Research & Development

Corporate Research & Development has a fast-paced feel and an environment where you’re rewarded for taking risks, much like a start-up. We focus on solving real-world problems—from climate change to the global AIDS epidemic—but unlike a typical start-up, we’re backed by the resources, funding, and vision of one of the largest, most successful companies in the world.

• Microsoft Research conducts both basic and applied research in computer science and software engineering. Our goals are to enhance the user experience on computing devices, reduce the cost of writing and maintaining software and invent novel computing technologies.
• In the Startup Business Group, we build and launch new high potential products—such as Microsoft Tag, Robotics, and Hohm—that span a range of domains, segments and geographies.
• The Unlimited Potential team explores technology solutions to promote social and economic opportunities for the underserved peoples of the world. We foster local innovation, enable jobs and work to transform the future of education.
• Trustworthy Computing ensures that all our products and services company-wide are designed from the ground up to be reliable, secure and respectful of privacy and are supported by responsible companies.
• The mission of the Extreme Computing Group is to develop radical new approaches to ultra-scale and high-performance computing hardware and software— from computer security, cryptography, operating system design, parallel programming models, cloud software, data center architectures, specialty hardware accelerators and quantum computing.
• Our Future Social Experiences (FUSE) Labs designs, develops and releases new social, real-time and media-rich experiences for home and work that allow people to create, connect and collaborate with what matters.

Sales, Marketing, Services, IT & Operations Group

The Sales, Marketing, Services, IT, & Operations Group spans all Microsoft products, services, and technologies. We’re the engine behind the successful adoption, deployment, and use of Microsoft solutions and technologies by customers worldwide—from individual to enterprise. Through a global partner network and support infrastructure, we connect with customers to generate rapid, meaningful, and measurable business results.

Corporate Businesses

The human resources, legal, and finance teams that make up our Corporate Businesses operate on a scale and at a strategic level that few companies can even imagine. Working in more than 100 countries, and across multiple products and lines of business, we are essential to our company’s viability and success.

In Human Resources we hire, motivate, reward, and retain great people while implementing programs and strategies and consulting with business groups to help them meet their business objectives.

Microsoft’s Legal & Corporate Affairs group handles worldwide legal and policy issues, identifying challenges and forging solutions that build Microsoft’s value while benefiting consumers, industry partners, and our communities.

In Finance, we’re responsible for all worldwide corporate accounting and reporting, financial and strategic planning and analysis, security, real estate, treasury, tax, audit, and investor relations functions.