Company (http://www.microsoft.com/) headquartered in the state of Washington, in the business of writing software primarily (not exclusively) for use on Intel hardware. Most well known for a series of operating systems known as [Microsoft Windows] and an application suite known as Microsoft Office. For a discussion of .NET and Tcl (and Perl and Python) from the Microsoft perspective, see this article in Microsoft's Technet: "Taking Advantage of Windows 2000 and the .NET Platform" [http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/iis/deploy/depovg/takeadv.asp] ---- [Category Company]