Hello Friends, Welcome to the KrishCreepyInfos. When you Think of Microsoft these things like Windows OS, Microsoft office Suite and Visual Studio IDE will strike in your mind. Microsoft is an American Multinational Company.
The company also publishes books like Microsoft Press and video games like Xbox Game Studios and hardware like Microsoft Mouse computer mice.
Microsoft is the portmanteau of two words microcomputer software. founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen on April 4, 1975, to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800.
Microsoft holds a plethora of thriving products. Aside from a wide range of fruitful products Microsoft is known for its impact on the tech world and the plethora of interesting facts tied to the company.
Here are Shocking facts about Microsoft you never knew. Believe me, every single one is quite interesting.
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| Bill Gates and Paul Allen |
1. TIC TAC TOE.
As a teen at Lakeside Prep School, Gates wrote his first computer program on a General Electric computer. It was a version of tic-tac-toe where you could play against the machine.
2. Bill Gates wrong predictions
i) In 1981 Gates said that nobody would ever need more than 640KiloBytes of memory on Personal Computers, now you know how wrong he predicted we are not satisfied with1TB(1000 GB) also today.
ii) Gates said in 2004 that in two years “problem of e-mail spam will be over”, but till now also it’s not resolved.
3. The Company was founded in New Mexico, not Washington
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| Redmond |
While Microsoft is synonymous with Redmond, Washington, the company didn’t start there. Microsoft was officially founded in Albuquerque, New Mexico on April 4, 1975. Redmond became Microsoft HQ in 1985.
4. First OS Developed by the Company was Called XENIX
Microsoft licensed UNIX from AT&T, created XENIX, and then licensed the OS to hardware vendors such as Intel and SCO.
5. Bill Gates wanted to call Windows as Interface Manager
If Bill Gates had his way, Windows OS would have been called 'Interface Manager'. Gates had planned to release it under the same name. However, 'Windows' name prevailed because it best describes the boxes or computing 'windows' that were fundamental to the new operating system.
6. Less than 1MB in size
Windows 1.0 had a colour 16-bit interface and was less than 1MB in size. It required a minimum of 256 kilobytes (KB), two double-sided floppy disk drives, and a graphics adapter card.
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| Windows 1.0 |
7. Microsoft becomes world's top software company
In 1988, Microsoft became the world's largest PC software company based on sales.
8. Three unreleased Windows versions
Some Windows versions which reportedly couldn't get released were: Windows Nashville Windows Cairo and Windows Neptune.
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| Windows Neptune |
9. When Microsoft beat Apple in customer satisfaction
Windows 7 is said to have been evaluated by 8 million beta testers worldwide before it was released.
10. The First Smartwatch Was Also Made by Microsoft
Aside from the tablet PC, Microsoft also created the first smartwatch, way back in 1994. The watch was coproduced with Timex and was called Timex DataLink 150.It featured a tiny LCD and was able to connect with Windows PCs to download various data, such as appointments. The watch was also water-resistant up to 100 meters. But, as the tablet PC, smartwatch from Microsoft didn’t sell in large numbers.
11. Bing has a mobile search click share of 34%
Google beats Bing once again; the most popular search engine in the world has a paid mobile search click share of 74%, with smartphone and tablet numbers combined. Bing facts on marketing, however, show that it comes out on top in the tablet department, leading the search click share by 1% over Google.
12. Windows Got Its First Virus in 1992
Windows was virus-free for almost a decade until someone decided to create the first virus for Windows. It was called WinVer 1.4.
13. Microsoft doesn’t sell software, it sells software licenses
Microsoft doesn’t sell software at all and never sold it. Throughout the years it only sold software licenses. In other words, you can buy an indefinite license to use Windows or MS Word but you never own the software.
14. Want to Learn all About MS Word? Type “=rand(200,99)” Into a Word Document and Hit Enter
Microsoft Word gives you access to an extensive description of Word features. Just type the combination of symbols shown above (without quotation marks) and hit enter and you’ll receive the document.
15. If the text “=rand.old()” is typed into Word followed by the Enter key
It transforms into 18 stanzas of “The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Dog.”
16. The First Hardware Produced by Microsoft Was a Mouse Back in 1983
A computer mouse released by Microsoft in 1983. It is the first mouse released by the company, and it was bundled with Microsoft Word, Notepad, and an on-screen teaching tutorial for an initial price of $195.
17. Like a Boss
In 1994, he was asked by a TV interviewer if he could jump over a chair from a standing position. Gates promptly took the challenge and leap over the chair like a boss.
