As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on January 6, 2004
Registration No. 33- 51583
UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
POST EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT NO. 3
TO
FORM S-8
REGISTRATION STATEMENT
Under
THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
MICROSOFT CORPORATION
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
| Washington | 91-1144442 | |
| (State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization) |
(IRS Employer Identification No.) |
One Microsoft Way
Redmond, Washington
98052-6399
(Address of Principal Executive Offices, including zip code)
Microsoft Corporation 1991 Stock Option Plan
(Full title of the plan)
John Seethoff
Deputy General Counsel, Finance and Operations
One Microsoft Way
Redmond, Washington 98052-6399
(425) 882-8080
(Name, address and telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)
Copies of all communications to:
Richard B. Dodd
Matthew S. Topham
Preston Gates & Ellis LLP
925 Fourth Avenue, Suite 2900
Seattle, WA 98104
(206) 623-7580
EXPLANATORY STATEMENT
A total of 4,160,000,000 shares of common stock (as adjusted for stock splits) of Microsoft Corporation (“Microsoft”) were registered in connection with the Microsoft Corporation 1991 Stock Option Plan, as amended (the “1991 Stock Plan”) by three separate registration statements on Form S-8 as follows: (a) 960,000,000 shares (as adjusted for stock splits) were registered by a registration statement on Form S-8, File No. 033-44302, filed on November 27, 1991 (the “1991 Form S-8”); (b) 1,600,000,000 shares (as adjusted for stock splits) were registered by a registration statement on Form S-8, File No. 033-51583, filed on December 20, 1993 (the “1993 Form S-8”); and (c) 1,600,000,000 shares (as adjusted for stock splits) were registered by a registration statement on Form S-8, File No. 333-06298, filed on November 22, 1996 (the “1996 Form S-8”).
On November 9, 2000, the stockholders of Microsoft Corporation approved the Microsoft Corporation 2001 Stock Plan, which replaces the 1991 Stock Plan. On December 28, 2000, Microsoft carried forward 1,360,000,000 shares (as adjusted for stock splits) of Microsoft common stock registered on the 1993 Form S-8 to the registration statement on Form S-8, File No. 333-52852, filed on December 28, 2000 in connection with the Microsoft Corporation 2001 Stock Plan.
Microsoft is filing this post-effective amendment to deregister 240,000,000 shares of Microsoft common stock that were registered under the 1993 Form S-8. On December 11, 2003, 317,719,856 options to purchase shares of Microsoft common stock that were originally granted pursuant to the 1991 Stock Plan were transferred to JP Morgan Chase Bank in connection with a stock option transfer program. Microsoft is deregistering a number of shares equal to the number of transferred options because the transferred options no longer have or represent any rights under the 1991 Stock Plan, including the right to receive shares of common stock registered for issuance in connection with the 1991 Stock Plan, and the shares subject to such options will not be available for regrant under the 1991 Stock Plan regardless of whether the transferred options are exercised or expire without exercise. Of the 317,719,856 shares of Microsoft common stock under the 1991 Stock Plan that Microsoft is deregistering as a result of the stock option transfer program, 240,000,000 shares are being deregistered from the 1993 Form S-8 and the remaining 77,719,856 shares are being deregistered from the 1996 Form S-8.
| Item 8. | Exhibits. |
| 24 | Power of Attorney |
SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused this registration statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Redmond, State of Washington, on this 5th day of January, 2004.
| MICROSOFT CORPORATION | ||
| By: | /s/ John G. Connors | |
| John G. Connors | ||
| Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer (Principal Financial and Accounting Officer) | ||
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this registration statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities indicated on January 5, 2004.
| Signature |
Title | |
| * William H. Gates III |
Chairman, Chief Software Architect, Director | |
| * Steven A. Ballmer |
Chief Executive Officer, Director (Principal Executive Officer) | |
| * James I. Cash, Jr., Ph.D. |
Director | |
| * Raymond V. Gilmartin |
Director | |
| * Ann McLaughlin Korologos |
Director | |
| * David F. Marquardt |
Director | |
| * Charles H. Noski |
Director | |
| * Helmut Panke |
Director | |
| * W. G. Reed, Jr. |
Director | |
| * Jon A. Shirley |
Director | |
| * John G. Connors |
Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer (Principal Financial and Accounting Officer) | |
| *By: | /s/ John A. Seethoff | |
| John A. Seethoff Attorney-In-Fact pursuant to a Power of Attorney attached as an exhibit hereto | ||