Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) is an American multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington that develops, manufactures, licenses and supports a wide range of products and services related to computing. The company was founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen on April 4, 1975. Microsoft is the world's largest software maker measured by revenues. It is also one of the world's most valuable companies.

Microsoft was established to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800. It rose to dominate the personal computer operating system market with MS-DOS in the mid-1980s, followed by the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems. 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. Since the 1990s, it has increasingly diversified from the operating system market and has made a number of corporate acquisitions. In May 2011, Microsoft acquired Skype Technologies for $8.5 billion in its largest acquisition to date.

As of 2012, Microsoft is market dominant in both the PC operating system and office suite markets (the latter with Microsoft Office). 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 and Xbox 360 consoles), the digital services market (through MSN), and mobile phones (via the Windows Phone OS). In June 2012, Microsoft announced that it would be entering the PC vendor market for the first time, with the launch of the Microsoft Surface tablet computer.

Managed low level implementations of Office for Apple products.

-- Managing commutation with Apple Developers to fix OS level Radar bugs.
-- Driving Sandboxing and App Store adoption of MS Office.
-- Designing Apple specific UI while maintaining the look and feel of MS Office.
-- Developed a Testflight replacement the use Windows Security groups


Drove performance on self-host and retail Windows Phone.

-- Writing functional specifications for features and tools that helped align Windows Phone with the "One Windows" Vision.
-- Designing and executing a metric collection systems that enabled developers to monitor and debug performance issues on self-host and retail Windows Phones.

Cisco Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO) is an American multinational corporation headquartered in San Jose, California, United States, that designs, manufactures, and sells networking equipment.

Cisco's current portfolio of products and services is focused upon three market segments - Enterprise and Service Provider, Small Business and the Home. The solutions for each market are segmented into Architectures, which form the basis for how Cisco approaches each market.

Corporate market: Enterprise networking and Service Providers
-- Borderless networks: for their range of routers, switches, wireless systems, security systems, WAN acceleration, energy and building management systems and media aware networks.
-- Collaboration: IP video and phones, TelePresence, HealthPresence, Unified Communications, Call Center systems, Enterprise social networks and Mobile applications
-- Datacenter and Virtualization: Unified Computing, Unified Fabric, Data Centre Switching, Storage Networking and Cloud services.
-- IP NGN (Next Generation Networks): High-end routing and switching for fixed and mobile service provider networks, broadcast video contribution/distribution, entitlement and content delivery systems.

Small businesses
-- Routers and switches (including those for networks of smart meters)[35] Security and surveillance: IP cameras, data and network security solutions, etc.
-- Voice and conferencing solutions: VOIP phones and gateway-systems, WebEx, video conferencing
-- Wireless: WiFi Access points
-- Network storage systems

Home user
-- Linksys product line of access points, switches, etc.
-- Broadband: cable modems