Wednesday, 29 January 2014

Corporate : 10 things you didn't know about Microsoft

  1. The first Operation System Microsoft coded was Xenix, which was a version of UNIX under a different name.
  2. Bill Gates wrote a class scheduling program for his school. He tweaked the program’s code so that he was placed in classes with mostly female students.
  3. Microsoft has around 35 cafeterias serving around 37,000 people each day.
  4. Microsoft Research hosted more than 800 interns at its worldwide labs in 2011.  
  5. Microsoft holds over 10,00 patents.
  6. The first Windows virus was called Winver 1.4.
  7. By April 2012, Microsoft had sold 67 million units of Xbox 360.
  8. Microsoft's 2011 acquisition of Skype Technologies for $8.5 billion was its largest to date. - See more at: http://www.baselinemag.com/enterprise-apps/15-fast-facts-about-microsoft#sthash.CYVbyisb.dpuf
     Microsoft's 2011 acquisition of Skype Technologies for $8.5 billion was it's largest till date.
  9. Bill Gates became a billionaire at 31. He is now worth $76 billion.
  10. Microsoft has a reputation of asking weird questions during interviews like "Why is a man-hole covered?".
    Microsoft's 2011 acquisition of Skype Technologies for $8.5 billion was its largest to date. - See more at: http://www.baselinemag.com/enterprise-apps/15-fast-facts-about-microsoft#sthash.CYVbyisb.dpuf
    Microsoft's 2011 acquisition of Skype Technologies for $8.5 billion was its largest to date. - See more at: http://www.baselinemag.com/enterprise-apps/15-fast-facts-about-microsoft#sthash.CYVbyisb.dpuf
    Microsoft's 2011 acquisition of Skype Technologies for $8.5 billion was its largest to date. - See more at: http://www.baselinemag.com/enterprise-apps/15-fast-facts-about-microsoft#sthash.CYVbyisb.dpuf

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