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Registration Statement File No. 333-31803
Filed pursuant to Rule 424(b)(3)
STICKER TO
PROSPECTUS
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MICROSOFT CORPORATION
154,898 Common Shares
Par Value of $.000025 Per Share
The Date of this Sticker is August 22, 1997.
This sticker serves to correct a typographical error contained in the Prospectus
of Microsoft Corporation dated July 22, 1997 (the "Prospectus"). The number of
shares of Microsoft Common Stock held by Selling Shareholders, Robert E. Kresko
and Walter G. Stern, Trustee, were transposed. The number of Microsoft Common
Stock held by Robert E. Kresko should be 531, not 213 as stated. The number of
shares of Microsoft Common Stock held by Walter G. Stern, Trustee, should be
213, not 531 as stated.
THIS STICKER IS PART OF THE PROSPECTUS AND MUST ACCOMPANY THE PROSPECTUS TO
SATISFY PROSPECTUS DELIVERY REQUIREMENTS UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS
AMENDED.
