For Microsoft, 1992 is about partnership. Intel and Microsoft introduce a new specification (in beta form) called DV MCI (the digital video command set of MCI), that expands the Media Control Interface

(MCI) for the Microsoft® Windows® graphical environment to work with current and future forms of digital video. We announce the Microsoft Certified Professional Program, a rigorous series of online exams covering Windows 3.1, LAN Manager, and SQL Server. And

in response to an inflammatory newspaper article in the New York Post, Microsoft announces that there are no hidden messages contained in any of the Wingdings fonts in the Microsoft® Windows® operating system and certainly no hate messages against any religious

or ethnic group.

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1992

1992 Revenue/Headcount

The 1992 fiscal year-end sales total $2,758,725,000. The 1992 fiscal Year employee headcount totals 11,542 people.

Official Subsidiaries Launched: Microsoft (S.A.) (Proprietary) Limited (South Africa), Microsoft Chile S.A., Microsoft Oy (Finland). Microsoft (Malaysia ) Sdn. Bhd., Microsoft Hellas S.A. (Greece), Microsoft s.r.o. (Czech Republic), Microsoft

sp.z.o.o (Poland), Microsoft Middle East, Microsoft Columbia, Microsoft A.O. (Russia)

January 20, 1992

A Portable Computing Initiative suite of technologies is announced. As the first phase of the initiative, Microsoft will offer: Advanced Power Management (APM) to extend battery life; Mic