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16
CUSTOMERS
Our customers include individual consumers, small- and medium-sized organizations, enterprises, governmental
institutions, educational institutions, Internet service providers, application developers, and OEMs. Consumers and small
and medium-sized organizations obtain our products primarily through distributors, resellers, and OEMs. No sales to an
individual customer accounted for more than 10% of fiscal year 2014, 2013, or 2012 revenue. Our practice is to ship our
products promptly upon receipt of purchase orders from customers; consequently, backlog is not significant.
EMPLOYEES
As of June 30, 2014, we employed approximately 128,000 people on a full-time basis, 62,000 in the U.S. and 66,000
internationally, including approximately 25,000 employees transferred as part of the NDS acquisition in April 2014. Of the
total employed people, 44,000 were in product research and development, 30,000 in sales and marketing, 23,000 in
product support and consulting services, 20,000 in manufacturing and distribution, and 11,000 in general and
administration. In July 2014, we announced a restructuring plan which will eliminate up to 18,000 positions in fiscal year
2015, including 12,500 professional and factory positions related to the acquisition of NDS. As a result of the NDS
acquisition, we have certain employees that are subject to collective bargaining agreements.
AVAILABLE INFORMATION
Our Internet address is www.microsoft.com. At our Investor Relations website, www.microsoft.com/investor, we make
available free of charge a variety of information for investors. Our goal is to maintain the Investor Relations website as a
portal through which investors can easily find or navigate to pertinent information about us, including:
• our annual report on Form 10-K, quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, current reports on Form 8-K, and any
amendments to those reports, as soon as reasonably practicable after we electronically file that material with
or furnish it to the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”);
• information on our business strategies, financial results, and key performance indicators;
• announcements of investor conferences, speeches, and events at which our executives talk about our product,
service, and competitive strategies. Archives of these events are also available;
• press releases on quarterly earnings, product and service announcements, legal developments, and
international news;
• corporate governance information including our articles of incorporation, bylaws, governance guidelines,
committee charters, codes of conduct and ethics, global corporate citizenship initiatives, and other
governance-related policies;
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interesting; and
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