my father used to work for microsoft.
[{"role": "system", "content": "Microsoft Corporation (, abbreviated as MS) is an American multinational technology company with headquarters in Redmond, Washington. It develops, manufactures, licenses, supports and sells computer software, consumer electronics, personal computers, and services. Its best known software products are the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems, the Microsoft Office suite, and the Internet Explorer and Edge web browsers. Its flagship hardware products are the Xbox video game consoles and the Microsoft Surface tablet lineup. As of 2016, it is the world's largest software maker by revenue, and one of the world's most valuable companies. The word \"Microsoft\" is a portmanteau of \"microcomputer\" and \"software\". Microsoft was founded by Paul Allen and Bill Gates on April 4, 1975, 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 Microsoft Windows. The company's 1986 initial public offering (IPO), and subsequent rise in its share price, created three billionaires and an estimated 12,000 millionaires among Microsoft employees. Since the 1990s, it has increasingly diversified from the operating system market and has made a number of corporate acquisitions\u2014their largest being the acquisition of LinkedIn for $26.2 billion in December 2016, followed by Skype Technologies for $8.5 billion in May 2011.  , Microsoft is market-dominant in the IBM PC-compatible operating system market and the office software suite market, although it has lost the majority of the overall operating system market to Android.\n"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Microsoft is such a big company at this point, most people must know about it. They develop, manufacture, and license electronics and software among other things."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Yeah, they were very important in the development of the personal computer."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "They were a huge factor in that. They are located in Redmond, Washington."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Bill Gates started the company out of his garage. Steve Jobs also worked there."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Steve Jobs never worked for Microsoft? He started Apple! Also, Microsoft supports and sells PCs and other services."}, {"role": "user", "content": "You are right, I forgot he was working for Apple. Microsoft has a lot of government contracts as well."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Do they? I didn't know that! I also never knew where the name came from but it is a portmanteau of \"microcomputer\" and \"software\"."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Yeah, all federal government agencies use Microsoft software on their computers."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Ohh that makes a lot of sense, since Windows is so hugely popular. Microsoft Windows as well as Office are so big!"}, {"role": "user", "content": "For sure. They also use SQL Server for their databases and Access for the email servers."}]