Microsoft is one of the best-known in the world. Almost everyone uses a Microsoft . These include the Windows operating , Hotmail and MSN, MS Word, Excel and PowerPoint, and the Bing search engine. The Financial Times it as the third largest company on the planet. It has created four billionaires and around 12,000 millionaires among its 93,000 . The company was founded by Bill Gates in 1975 and slowly became the number one name in . It generates over $50 billion a year in . The company website outlines its as follows: “As a company, and as individuals, we value , honesty, openness, personal excellence, constructive self-criticism, continual self-improvement, and respect.”