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"It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure." 

*Bill Gates* 

Fokusnya di dunia peranti lunak memang tak tergoyahkan. Sepanjang hidupnya, fokus bisnisnya hanya di satu bidang ini — atau yang berkaitan dengan peranti lunak, jasa dan solusi. Ia tak pernah menoleh sedikitpun ke bidang lain. 

Pria kelahiran 28 Oktober 1955 ini mampu membangun Micrsoft dari titik nol menjadi perusahaan dengan penjualan sebesar US$ 51,12 miliar alias sekitar Rp 500 triliun pada tahun fiskal Juni 2007. Itu artinya hampir setara dengan 70% belanja negara kita tahun ini.

Melalui payung Microsoft pula ia mampu menampung 78 ribu tenaga kerja yang tersebar di 105 negara. Melalui Microsoft pula ia mendominasi pasar peranti lunak dunia.

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Microsoft Product divisions

Main article: Microsoft Product Divisions

For the 2010 fiscal year, Microsoft had five product divisions: Windows & Windows Live Division, Server and Tools, Online Services Division, Microsoft Business Division, and Entertainment and Devices Division.

Windows & Windows Live Division, Server and Tools, Online Services Division

The company's Client division produces the flagship Windows OS line such as Windows 7; it also produces the Windows Live family of products and services. Server and Tools produces the server versions of Windows, such as Windows Server 2008 R2 as well as a set of development tools called Microsoft Visual Studio, Microsoft Silverlight, a web application framework, and Systems Management Server, a collection of tools providing remote-control abilities, patch management, software distribution and a hardware/software inventory. Other server products include: Microsoft SQL Server, a relational database management system, Microsoft Exchange Server, for certain business-oriented e-mail and scheduling features, Small Business Server, for messaging and other small business-oriented features; and Microsoft BizTalk Server, for business process management.


Microsoft provides IT consulting ("Microsoft Consulting Services") and produces a set of certification programs handled by the Server and Tools division designed to recognize individuals who have a minimal set of proficiencies in a specific role; this includes developers ("Microsoft Certified Solution Developer"), system/network analysts ("Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer"), trainers ("Microsoft Certified Trainers") and administrators ("Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator" and "Microsoft Certified Database Administrator"). Microsoft Press, which publishes books, is also managed by the division. The Online Services Business division handles the online service MSN and the search engine Bing. As of December 2009, the company also possesses an 18% ownership of the cable news channel MSNBC without any editorial control; however, the division develops the channel's website, msnbc.com, in a joint venture with the channel's co-owner, NBC Universal.

Business Division

Front entrance to building 17 on the main campus of the company's Redmond campus.

The Microsoft Business Division produces Microsoft Office including Microsoft Office 2010, the company's line of office software. The software product includes Word (a word processor), Access (a relational database program), Excel (a spreadsheet program), Outlook (Groupware, frequently used with Exchange Server), PowerPoint (presentation software), and Publisher (desktop publishing software). A number of other products were added later with the release of Office 2003 including Visio, Project, MapPoint, InfoPath and OneNote.

The division also develops enterprise resource planning (ERP) software for companies under the Microsoft Dynamics brand. These include: Microsoft Dynamics AX, Microsoft Dynamics NAV, Microsoft Dynamics GP, and Microsoft Dynamics SL. They are targeted at varying company types and countries, and limited to organizations with under 7,500 employees.^[49] Also included under the Dynamics brand is the customer relationship management software Microsoft Dynamics CRM, part of the Azure Services Platform.

Entertainment and Devices Division

The Entertainment and Devices Division produces the Windows CE OS for embedded systems and Windows Phone 7 for smartphones.^[50] Microsoft initially entered the mobile market through Windows CE for handheld devices, eventually developing into the Windows Mobile OS and now, Windows Phone 7. Windows CE is designed for devices where the OS may not directly be visible to the end user, in particular, appliances and cars.

The division also produces computer games that run on Windows PCs and other systems including titles such as Age of Empires, Halo and the Microsoft Flight Simulator series as well as a line of reference works that include encyclopedias and atlases, under the name Encarta, and houses the Macintosh Business Unit which produces Mac OS software including Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac.

Microsoft's Entertainment and Devices Division designs, markets, and manufactures consumer electronics including the Xbox 360 game console, the handheld Zune media player, and the television-based Internet appliance MSN TV. Microsoft also markets personal computer hardware including mice, keyboards, and various game controllers such as joysticks and gamepads.

Area Industri IT di Masa Depan

Industri Perangkat Lunak

Volume Industri Perangkat Lunak di BHTV Tahun 2035 di Usahakan Mencapai

100 Milyar Dolar

Targeting

2015

Terdapat 10 Perusahaan Software Profesional

2020

Terdapat 25 Perusahaan Software Profesional menyerap sekitar 10. 000 Tenaga Kerja

2025

Terdapat 40 Perusahaan Software Profesional

2030

Terdapat 60 Perusahaan Software Profesional

2035

Terdapat 100 Perusahaan Software Profesional Menyerap Tenaga Kerja Hingga

200.000 orang Lebih

KEKUATAN DARI FOKUS

Orang Italia memiliki pepatah yang sangat bagus, bunyinya: “Often, he who does too much does too little.” Terjemahan bebasnya kira-kira begini: Seseorang yang mengerjakan terlalu banyak (tidak fokus), biasanya mendapatkan hasil yang sangat sedikit.

Senada dengan itu orang terkaya dunia, Bill Gates juga pernah berucap:

“My success, part of it certainly, is that I have focused on a few things.”

Jadi Bill Gates berbagi ilmu, bahwa ternyata ia berhasil menjadi orang terkaya dunia karena dari awal perjalanan bisnisnya (Microsoft) Ia telah memutuskan untuk berfokus hanya pada beberapa hal saja, yakni hal-hal yang sesuai dengan potensi yang ia miliki, khusunya sebagai seorang creator atau pencipta suatu ide/produk.

Sumber:

1. Harvard University

2. Microsoft

3. Indian IT Park

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