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The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland , commonly known as the United Kingdom ( UK ) or Britain , is a sovereign country in western Europe . Lying off the north - western coast of the European mainland , it includes the island of Great Britain ( the name of which is also loosely applied to the whole country ), the north - eastern part of the island of Ireland , and many smaller islands . Northern Ireland is the only part of the UK that shares a land border with another sovereign statethe Republic of Ireland . Apart from this land border , the UK is surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean , with the North Sea to its east , the English Channel to its south and the Celtic Sea to its south - south - west , giving it the 12th - longest coastline in the world . The Irish Sea lies between Great Britain and Ireland . With an area of , the UK is the 78th - largest sovereign state in the world and the 11th - largest in Europe . It is also the 21st - most populous country , with an estimated 65 . ___MASK76___ million inhabitants . Together , this makes it the fourth most densely populated country in the European Union . East Linton is a town in East Lothian , Scotland , situated on the River Tyne and A199 road ( former A1 road ) five miles east of Haddington , with a population of ___MASK76___ , 774 ( Census 2001 ). ( In 1881 it had a population of ___MASK76___ , 042 ). Rockville is a city located in the central region of Montgomery County , Maryland . It is the county seat and is a major incorporated city of Montgomery County and forms part of the Baltimore  Washington metropolitan area . The ___MASK89___ census tabulated Rockville ' s population at 61 , 209 , making it the third largest incorporated city in Maryland , behind Baltimore and Frederick . Rockville is the largest incorporated city in Montgomery County , Maryland , although the nearby census - designated place of Germantown is more populous . VIS Entertainment was a video game developer based out of Scotland . It was founded in ___MASK92___ by Chris van der Kuyl and Peter Baillie . The company worked closely with BAM ! Entertainment . Ericsson (" Telefonaktiebolaget L . M . Ericsson ") is a multinational networking and telecommunications equipment and services company headquartered in Stockholm , Sweden . The company offers services , software and infrastructure in information and communications technology ( ICT ) for telecommunications operators , traditional telecommunications and Internet Protocol ( IP ) networking equipment , mobile and fixed broadband , operations and business support services , cable television , IPTV , video systems , and an extensive services operation . Ericsson had ___MASK5___ % market share in the 2G / 3G / 4G mobile network infrastructure market in ___MASK28___ . Sony Corporation is the electronics business unit and the parent company of the Sony Group , which is engaged in business through its four operating components  electronics ( video games , network services and medical business ), motion pictures , music and financial services . These make Sony one of the most comprehensive entertainment companies in the world . Sony ' s principal business operations include Sony Corporation , Sony Pictures Entertainment , Sony Interactive Entertainment , Sony Music Entertainment , Sony Mobile ( formerly Sony Ericsson ) and Sony Financial . Sony is among the Semiconductor sales leaders by year and as of ___MASK48___ , the fourth - largest television manufacturer in the world , after Samsung Electronics , LG Electronics and TCL . LG Electronics Inc . is a South Korean multinational electronics company headquartered in Yeouido - dong , Seoul , South Korea , and is part of the LG Group , employing 82 , 000 people working in 119 local subsidiaries worldwide . With ___MASK26___ global sales of USD 55 . 91 billion ( KRW 59 . 04 trillion ), LG comprises four business units : Home Entertainment , Mobile Communications , Home Appliance & Air Solution , and Vehicle Components , with Starion India as its main production vendor for refrigeration and washing machines in the Indian sub - continent . The CEO of LG Electronics is Bon - joon Koo , who assumed the role of vice chairman of LG Electronics on ___MASK76___ ___MASK11___ . In 2011 , LG Electronics was the world ' s second - largest television manufacturer . Microsoft Windows ( or simply Windows ) is a metafamily of graphical operating systems developed , marketed , and sold by Microsoft . It consists of several families of operating systems , each of which cater to a certain sector of the computing industry with the OS typically associated with IBM PC compatible architecture . Active Windows families include Windows NT , Windows Embedded and Windows Phone ; these may encompass subfamilies , e . g . Windows Embedded Compact ( Windows CE ) or Windows Server . Defunct Windows families include Windows 9x ; Windows ___MASK41___ Mobile is an active product , unrelated to the defunct family Windows Mobile . ZeniMax Media Inc . is an American media company that develops and publishes video games through its subsidiaries . ZeniMax is known for being the owner of Arkane Studios ( developer of " Dishonored " and " Prey "), BattleCry Studios ( developer of " BattleCry "), id Software ( developer of " Doom " series , " Quake " series and " Rage "), MachineGames ( developer of " Wolfenstein " series ), Tango Gameworks ( developer of " The Evil Within "), Bethesda Softworks ( developer and publisher of " The Elder Scrolls " series and " Fallout " series ) and ZeniMax Online Studios . ZeniMax is headquartered in Rockville , Maryland , with offices in North America , Europe , Asia and Australia . The Xbox 360 is a home video game console developed by Microsoft . As the successor to the original Xbox , it is the second console in the Xbox series . The Xbox 360 competed with Sony ' s PlayStation 3 and Nintendo ' s Wii as part of the seventh generation of video game consoles . The Xbox 360 was officially unveiled on MTV on May ___MASK57___ , ___MASK61___ , with detailed launch and game information divulged later that month at the Electronic Entertainment Expo ( E3 ). Internet Explorer ( formerly Microsoft Internet Explorer and Windows Internet Explorer , commonly abbreviated IE or MSIE ) is a discontinued series of graphical web browsers developed by Microsoft and included as part of the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems , starting in ___MASK91___ . It was first released as part of the add - on package Plus ! for Windows 95 that year . Later versions were available as free downloads , or in service packs , and included in the original equipment manufacturer ( OEM ) service releases of Windows 95 and later versions of Windows . id Software LLC ( formerly id Software , Inc ., ; see Company name ) is an American video game developer headquartered in Dallas , Texas . The company was founded on February ___MASK76___ , 1991 , by four members of the computer company Softdisk , programmers John Carmack and John Romero , game designer Tom Hall , and artist Adrian Carmack ( no relation to John Carmack ). Business manager Jay Wilbur was also involved . Arkane Studios SASU ( formerly Arkane Studios SA ) is a French video game developer based in Lyon , France . It was founded in ___MASK100___ , and released its first game , " Arx Fatalis ", in 2002 . Arkane Studios opened a second studio , Arkane Studios Austin , in Austin , Texas in ___MASK4___ . Microsoft Studios is the video game production wing for Microsoft , responsible for the development and publishing of games for the Xbox , Xbox 360 , Xbox One , Games for Windows , Steam , Windows Store , and Windows Phone platforms . They were established in ___MASK92___ as Microsoft Game Studios to coincide with the already released Xbox , before being re - branded in 2011 . The subsidiary had also been known as Microsoft Game Division and simply Microsoft Games before ___MASK92___ . Microsoft Studios develops and publishes games in conjunction with first and third party development studios under their publishing label . Sony Mobile is a multinational telecommunications company founded on October ___MASK76___ , 2001 as a joint venture between Sony and Ericsson , headquartered in Tokyo , Japan and wholly owned by Sony . It was originally incorporated as Sony Ericsson , but Sony acquired Ericsson ' s share in the venture on February ___MASK7___ , ___MASK28___ . Microsoft Office is an office suite of applications , servers , and services developed by Microsoft . It was first announced by Bill Gates on ___MASK76___ August 1988 , at COMDEX in Las Vegas . Initially a marketing term for a bundled set of applications , the first version of Office contained Microsoft Word , Microsoft Excel , and Microsoft PowerPoint . Over the years , Office applications have grown substantially closer with shared features such as a common spell checker , OLE data integration and Visual Basic for Applications scripting language . Microsoft also positions Office as a development platform for line - of - business software under the Office Business Applications brand . On 10 July ___MASK28___ , Softpedia reported that Office is used by over a billion people worldwide . Dundee , officially the City of Dundee , is Scotland ' s fourth - largest city and the 51st - most - populous built - up area in the United Kingdom . The mid - year population estimate for ___MASK59___ was 148 , 210 which gave Dundee a population density of 2 , 477 / km or 6 , ___MASK19___ / sq mi , the second - highest in Scotland . It lies within the eastern central Lowlands on the north bank of the Firth of Tay , which feeds into the North Sea . Under the name of " Dundee City ", it forms one of the 32 council areas used for local government in Scotland . A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring and recording information about the members of a given population . It is a regularly occurring and official count of a particular population . The term is used mostly in connection with national population and housing censuses ; other common censuses include agriculture , business , and traffic censuses . The United Nations defines the essential features of population and housing censuses as " individual enumeration , universality within a defined territory , simultaneity and defined periodicity ", and recommends that population censuses be taken at least every ___MASK41___ years . United Nations recommendations also cover census topics to be collected , official definitions , classifications and other useful information to co - ordinate international practice . BAM ! Entertainment is a dormant video game publisher that published such titles as "", " Wallace & Gromit in Project Zoo ", and various video game console adaptations of Cartoon Network programs . Threatened as early as ___MASK92___ , NASDAQ eventually delisted their stock in 2004 . Currently based out of San Jose , California , the company has not released any new products since its delisting . Microsoft Corporation ( commonly referred to as Microsoft or MS ) is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Redmond , Washington , that develops , manufactures , licenses , supports and sells computer software , consumer electronics and personal computers and services . Its best known software products are the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems , Microsoft Office office suite , and Internet Explorer and Edge web browsers . Its flagship hardware products are the Xbox video game consoles and the Microsoft Surface tablet lineup . As of ___MASK1___ , it was the world ' s largest software maker by revenue , and one of the world ' s most valuable companies . Games for Windows is a discontinued brand owned by Microsoft and introduced in ___MASK20___ to coincide with the release of the Windows Vista operating system . The brand itself represents a standardized technical certification program and online service for Windows games , bringing a measure of regulation to the PC game market in much the same way that console manufacturers regulate their platforms . The branding program was open to both first - party and third - party publishers . Redmond is a city in King County , Washington , United States , located east of Seattle , within the Seattle metropolitan area . The population is ___MASK42___ , 560 in 2016 , an increase from the 2010 census , up from 45 , 256 in ___MASK99___ census . Redmond is commonly recognized as the home of Microsoft and Nintendo of America . With an annual bike race on city streets and the state ' s only velodrome , Redmond is also known as the " Bicycle Capital of the Northwest ". ZeniMax Online Studios LLC is a subsidiary of ZeniMax Media , specializing in the development of massively multiplayer online games . The company developed " The Elder Scrolls Online " and its downloadable content . ZeniMax Online Studios had around ___MASK74___ employees in ___MASK28___ . In addition to the main Hunt Valley , Maryland based office , ZeniMax Online also maintains a customer support center in Galway , Ireland as well as an additional office in Austin , Texas . Bethesda Softworks LLC is an American video game publisher based in Rockville , Maryland . The company was founded by Christopher Weaver in ___MASK64___ in Bethesda , Maryland as a division of Media Technology Limited , and nowadays is a wholly owned subsidiary of ZeniMax Media . Originally a video game developer itself , Bethesda Softworks now acts as the publisher for their in - house development team , Bethesda Game Studios , and ZeniMax Media ' s subsidiaries , ZeniMax Online Studios , id Software , Arkane Studios , MachineGames , Tango Gameworks and BattleCry Studios . 4J Studios is a Scottish video game development studio based in Dundee and East Linton . The company has worked with a wide range of publishers including ZeniMax Media , Mojang , and Microsoft Studios . The staff include many former key personnel from defunct studio VIS Entertainment . 4J Studios also helped develop Minecraft . Since ___MASK89___ , 4J Studios have been working on the console editions of Minecraft with Microsoft , Sony and Mojang . They have received many awards for these ports . In ___MASK28___ , 4J Studios was awarded a Golden Joystick Award for the Best Selling Game , and a TIGA Games Industry Award for the Best Arcade Game for their XBLA port of Minecraft . Minecraft is also available for Xbox One , PS3 , PS4 , and PS Vita . Windows Phone ( WP ) is a family of mobile operating systems developed by Microsoft for smartphones as the replacement successor to Windows Mobile and Zune . Windows Phone features a new user interface derived from Metro design language . Unlike Windows Mobile , it is primarily aimed at the consumer market rather than the enterprise market . It was first launched in ___MASK11___ with Windows Phone ___MASK53___ . Windows Phone 8 . 1 is the latest public release of the operating system , released to manufacturing on April 14 , 2014 .