How Microsoft has impacted your life and how you plan to bring a change to the society being a Microsoft Student Associate?

Hello, I am Saravanan, from K.S.R College of Engineering, Nammakal, and this is my story, on how Microsoft has impacted my life and how as a MSA I plan to bring about a change to the society.

Microsoft was founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen on April 4, 1975 to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for Altair 8800. It rose to dominate the personal computer operating system market with MS-DOS in the mid-1980s, followed by the Microsoft Windows. The company's 1986 initial public offering, and subsequent rise in its share price, created an estimated three billionaires and 12,000 millionaires from Microsoft employees.

Right from my birth Microsoft has been impact my life in many ways. In childhood days I have started using computer without knowing Microsoft was running in the background helping me bring out my artistic skills, typing skills,etc. Small flash games, windows media player which helps to listen to the music. The tools like MS Office, Windows media player, Internet explorer was there to serve me and I was immensely benefited by it. In personal experience I still remember I have won the first prize in the field of drawing, a lion using MS paint software at school level when I am in 4th STD. It was my first personal impact of Microsoft in my life.

Microsoft has offered a wide range of product software and hardware products which help to increase the user friendly aspects .here I sort out the timeline which necessary for the user from my point of view. First necessities lead me through Paint, Internet-Explorer and PowerPoint to help me with my school projects. Then, the sense of convenience made me use other Microsoft products like- MS Word, Office, Access, Excel to manage or record the information efficiently. Further the need of luxury extended my scope using products like- Skype, MSN, Zune, Bing, X-box. Another gift of Microsoft important to me is Visual Studio- an IDE which supports a number of programming languages on same platform with the salutary of just drag & drop. Visual Studio Professional 2013 assists me to develop all these apps and now is one of the regular users of visual studio. One of the most attractive feature of the visual studio is the Team Explore, this one is most helpful me to meet developers around the world and become a part of their each projects.

Secondly the whole Microsoft developer’s framework has been a boon to me. It is powerful, and at times when the use of those tools would diminish, Microsoft would come back with much better ones. I remember the early days of developing GUI software with Visual Basics, or one of the first HTML editor, the MS Front Page for creating and administrating websites. Microsoft SQL server which also help in maintaining the data and provided for data applications.

For past 20 year of my experience Microsoft has been impact my life in both education as well as entertainment factor. Microsoft has weighed upon educating the students by providing Virtual Academy and at the same time it has maintained a Microsoft Developer Network to manage firm’s relationship with developers and testers wherein it manages the documentation regarding the applications of its products. Microsoft has provided an open and flexible cloud platform named Azure enabling students to build, deploy & manage applications across global Datacenters. Microsoft's Entertainment and Devices Division designs, markets, and manufactures consumer electronics including the Xbox 360 game console, the handheld Zune media player, and the television-based Internet appliance MSN TV. Microsoft also markets personal computer hardware including mice, keyboards, and various game controllers such as joysticks and game pads.

The company also produces a wide range of other software for desktops and servers, and is active in areas including Internet search (with Bing), the video game industry (with the Xbox, Xbox 360 and One consoles), the digital services market (through MSN), and mobile phones (via the Windows Phone OS). In June 2012, Microsoft entered the personal computer production market for the first time, with the launch of the Microsoft Surface, a line of tablet computers.

Now a day’s life without computer is impossible, in more persist life without Microsoft product is impossible. For past years Microsoft being the No:1 company in field of computer it not possible without the proper planning and customer planning.

Microsoft products have been an inevitable resource which have not only guided the diverse users but have also motivated to learn, grow and keep up with the new age technologies. Microsoft made me an independent learner. I started developing confidence regarding my work from an early age. This attitude helped me deal with work pressure and deliver quality work on time.

Being a Microsoft Student Associate, I endeavor to serve the society by carrying the flambeau of knowledge forward. Knowledge comes with the sole power to be used and spread while wisdom lingers. I would keep my friends, family & batch mates updated and well aware of the Microsoft products. I would use this opportunity to bring the world of technologies to my college through various workshops and orientation programs, so that many lives could light up just as mine.