Would you have known this? Interesting, Odd and amusing Facts about the biggest Software Corporation of the World:
1: First Official Announcement
The name “Microsoft” was mentioned the first time in a Letter from Bill Gates to his Co-Founder Paul Allen on 11/29 1975. The Name was written”Micro-Soft”, wich was later than registred a Trademark in the year 1976.
2: iPod and Google are forbidden!
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer forces his children to use Microsoft Products. Once in a Interview with him from CNN he said to the question, if he would use a iPod:
“No, I do not. Nor do my children. My children–in many dimensions they’re as poorly behaved as many other children, but at least on this dimension I’ve got my kids brainwashed: You don’t use Google, and you don’t use an iPod.”
3: Microsoft in Numbers
Microsoft employs 95.828 Individuals Worldwide. The average Age of these People is 37 Years. 74,7 % of the Employees in the US are men. Microsoft owns 88 properties worldwide with a size of 1.121.739,83 square meters.
4: Exclusively for the Mac
Office was first made for the Macintosh platform in the year 1989. It was available on Floppy and CD-ROM.
The Windows editions Word, Exel and Powerpoint hit the market one year later than the MAC OS Version in the year 1990.
5: Premium Start up Sounds
The Start up sound for Windows 95 was composed by the ambient music Componist Brian Eno, who utilized a Macintosh Computer to create this little piece of Music. The Sounds for Windows Vista were made by Robert Fripp, Ex Guitar Player of the Band “King Crimson”.
6: Microsoft in Numbers II
The Microsoft Catering Service is responsible for the Food, which daily serves about 2.220 Slices of Pizza to the MS employees. Yearly they deliver 4 Million cartons of milk, 7 Million Bottles of Water an 2 Million Teabags.
7: Over 12.000 Days at Microsoft
Bill Gates worked form the 4th of April 1975 until the 27th of June 2008 at Microsoft, his Self-Founded Corp.. That is (including weekends and vacation) 12.139 Days.
8: Windows’s Grandpa
The first Operation System Microsoft coded was Xenix, wich appears to be a Unix Distro, that rolled out on the 24th of August in the year of 1980. Bill Gates wanted that this OS is the Standard on every PC, but that didn’t happen, becuase Xenix required a Hard Disk and 256 kb of RAM. IBM Pc’s had 64 Kb Maximum, and Hard Dirves were very expensive (several thousand Dollars).
9: Save Button with a error
The “Save” Pictogram in the MS Office versions up to 2003 had a little Problem:
The cut out on the bottom of the Diskette was on the wrong side.
10: 16 Billion Entries per Excel 2007 Table
In a Excel 2007 Table, there are 16.000 Possible Columns and 1 Million possible Rows, that makes a total of 16.000.000.000 Entries
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