Microsoft owns the Windows operating system and is listed on Nasdaq under MSFT.
Microsoft Corporation develops Windows, the Office productivity suite, Azure cloud services, Xbox products, and many other software and hardware businesses. Its common stock trades on the Nasdaq stock market with the ticker symbol MSFT.
The company’s market capitalization has been driven by the combination of mature software franchises and expanding cloud operations. Microsoft shifted many products toward subscription licensing, while Azure became a major rival to Amazon Web Services in cloud computing.
Microsoft is often confused with its individual products, such as Windows or Office. The market-cap ranking applies to Microsoft Corporation as a whole, because investors own shares in the parent company rather than separate publicly traded shares of Windows or Azure.