Where is Microsoft's headquarters?

Microsoft’s headquarters is in Redmond, Washington.

Microsoft’s main corporate campus is located in Redmond, a city east of Seattle in the Puget Sound region. The company moved its headquarters from nearby Bellevue to Redmond in 1986, shortly before Microsoft became a public company. The move placed its growing workforce on a large suburban campus that later became closely identified with the company.

The Redmond headquarters is more than one office building. It is a sprawling campus of offices, research spaces, restaurants, recreation areas, and internal transportation routes. Microsoft has continued expanding and modernizing the site as its businesses have grown from personal-computer software into cloud computing, gaming, enterprise services, and artificial intelligence.

A common mix-up is answering “Seattle,” because Redmond is part of the Seattle metropolitan area and is often described informally as being near Seattle. The canonical city is Redmond, while Washington identifies the state. Microsoft also maintains major offices around the world, but Redmond remains its headquarters location.