15 Amazing Facts About MICROSOFT

 Microsoft being the first real software company in the world Microsoft made computing hardware accessible to the masses and managed to become one of the most revolutionizing inventions in history and the most amazing part of this is that Microsoft cleared the way for other software innovations collaborating with Apple for a short period of time.

Microsoft managed to develop its own 

competitive brand and hold for one of the most used operating systems in the world at the moment there's likely not one person on the planet that hasn't heard the names Bill Gates or Paul Allen and they've proven to have just as much of an impact as the revolutionary operating system they created Microsoft's long term plan has been and continues to be putting a PC on every desk in every home and they are closer to that goal than ever before whether you love it or not the company has made many innovations both in tech and the business world and has radically changed how we use technology Microsoft continues to innovate and holds up to fifty thousand patents in their record including the hololens headset being one of the top five patent holders in the US.

Here's 15 things you didn't 

know about Microsoft: 

NUMBER 1:

It was founded by childhood friends Bill Gates and Paul Allen. 

Microsoft was founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen who met when they were studying at Lakeside school in Seattle they quickly developed a friendship through their interest for technology and curiosity they even hacked the security system of the computer center corporation a company that immediately asked them to help them find weak spots in their platform in 1995 Allen showed Gates an issue of popular electronics magazine would showcase the Altair 8800 the first microcomputer in the world soon after they came up with the idea of developing a programming language for that computer and the rest as they say is history.

NUMBER 2:

Microsoft's headquarters is in continuous expansion the Redmond 

headquarters is a sprawling over 800 million square foot campus that has been Microsoft's home since 1986 nowadays around 40,000 employees work there take a commuter bus called the connector to work and can enjoy many amenities including coffee shops stores and restaurants you could say that Microsoft has built a mini city in itself and that it's in continuous expansion last year Microsoft revealed big plans for adding 18 buildings and an 87,000 120 square foot open plaza the campus also has a visitor center complete with AI and cutting-edge technology showcasing but 

also with a nod to Microsoft's

past.

NUMBER 3:

Before Microsoft there was truffaut data however the two 

co-founders of Microsoft didn't become successful overnight on the contrary while still in high school gates and Allen created a computer that could count traffic automatically while the system technically worked they struggled to find the right business model and it was all a big flop in the end however they did get something major out of the experience the code they had was really really good they got to know how microprocessors worked which was critical for their next endeavors their partner at the time engineer Paul Gilbert went on to say that Microsoft could not have happened if it weren't for truffaut data.

NUMBER 4:

Microsoft hustled and chose their partners wisely 

it's fair to say that if you put some geniuses together great day will happen which is true but even more true is that Paul Allen and Bill Gates knew how to choose their business partners and make great things happen and their partnership with IBM was the most important of all you see IBM needed software for their personal computers and Microsoft was the best company for the challenge 

35 of their 100 employees at the t

ime worked for one year on this project all in all the result was das also known as disk operating system which was the operating system that brought Microsoft their big break no other company at the time could make a programming language and a software app for IBM which turned out to be a big hit among consumers.

NUMBER 5:

Bill Gates the Microsoft inventor has a net worth of ninety two 

point three billion dollars Bill Gates became the world's richest man in 1995 with a net worth of twelve point nine billion dollars and maintained his position on and off for decades to come however he broke all records in 1987 when at the age of 31 he became the youngest-ever billionaire it was the year in which Microsoft went public and the company's growth simply exploded Paul Allen is a billionaire himself and many Microsoft people became very rich for example Steve Ballmer who was the CEO from 2000 to 2013 is now worth thirty eight point seven billion dollars according to some sources Microsoft has even achieved to make as many as twelve thousand millionaires at the moment Bill Gates is sitting at number two on the list of the richest people in the world with a net worth of ninety two point three billion dollars.

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umber 6:

Microsoft has had some user interface 

failures in the past this goes to show\ that even if you're insanely successful they'll be failures and low points in your journey take for example Bob the main screen that didn't happen fortunately for Microsoft users and the company itself Bob was a yellow cartoon character with glasses that looked a lot like Bill Gates and his so-called living room was supposed to guide users for example if you clicked on the envelope in the room you'd open your email plus there was other cartoon characters that were supposed to be included a dog named Rover Shelly the turtle and many more the project was abandoned soon after but some elements stayed and were included such as the helpers in later version of Windows.

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umber 7:

Bill Gates had a strange love-hate 

relationship with Steve Jobs the world seemed divided into one person likes Apple and the other likes Microsoft products and there's no way they could ever mix or agree with each other that's what can be said about the longtime feud between Bill Gates and Steve Jobs the two were actually friends at the beginning even collaborating Microsoft continued with the software for the Apple 2 PC that all changed when Microsoft released the first ever Windows operating system in 1985 and Jobs felt that Microsoft had ripped off his idea the conflict went on for years for example Jobs kept criticizing Microsoft for being unoriginal and uninspiring according to him while gates dissed the iPad idea from the Gecko however throughout the years it was still clear that they respected each other a lot Gates thought jobs had excellent taste and Jobs said that he admired the Microsoft co-founder a lot and enjoyed working with him for that brief period of time friends or foes who really knows.

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umber 8: 

Microsoft was sued for monopolizing the browser market the 

now infamous case of the United States vs. Microsoft Corporation made waves in 2001 basically the company was accused of having a monopoly and anti-competitive practices that means that Microsoft could squash all competition before they even got to the market and it was all because of Internet Explorer at that time you had to pay to use a browser and Microsoft had the idea of making Windows come together with Internet Explorer as a package this lawsuit was a huge deal because it could have forced Microsoft to divide the company and thus dissolve the Empire so to speak however they reached a settlement in the end in which Microsoft agreed to share their application programming interfaces with third-party developers.

Number 9:

Microsoft may be worth one trillion 

dollars in two years whether you're a fan or not you have to admit that Microsoft is a pretty impressive company they managed to stay on the market for the last forty three years and their products are everywhere and most importantly they continue to make a lot of money according to a Wall Street analyst the money-making streak is only going to grow and reach one trillion dollars in 2020 in 2017 Microsoft chairs went up more than 35% which was actually better than their competitors Apple and Google did so maybe if you're looking to invest look no further than Microsoft.

Number 10:

Microsoft had a revenue of 90 billion 

dollars in 2017 Microsoft is among the tech giants because of its innovation and knack for taking advantage of market opportunities as a result the company made 90 billion dollars in 2017 alone what's more Microsoft is known to be very trustworthy and generated twenty two point three billion dollars as a cash return for shareholders last year one of the main resources for this growth is the Microsoft commercial cloud service which offers products such as Azure and Microsoft Office 365 however they have pledged to continue innovating and expanding their cloud services while also keeping up with artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies. 

Number 11:

Microsoft enabled Bill Gates to help 

people throughout the world to put it mildly Microsoft changed how we use and see technology but that is not the only revolutionary idea linked to Microsoft Bill Gates stepped down as CEO in 2000 and has been even less involved in recent years the reason he wanted to focus on philanthropy through the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation he still would be the richest person in the world if he hadn't given large chunks of his fortune away Gates philosophy is that money is no good if you can't help others and he's doing just that now he and his wife worked tirelessly to improve global healthcare eradicate extreme poverty and are involved in many educational initiatives.

Number 12:

Microsoft has big plans involving AI Microsoft is quietly 

working on developing its artificial intelligence powered products at least more quietly than Google who's constantly promoting them at a recent Microsoft conference for developers that took place in Seattle May of 2018 they have revealed their most innovative tools that aim to help companies include AI into their processes it means the products have better text-to-speech abilities custom voice recognition and computers that are way better at recognizing objects and doing visual searches for example doctors will be able to screen patients and identify early patterns that predict blindness Microsoft's current corporate vice president said I hope we spark imagination and I hope we show them more ways that imagination can come true.

Number 13:

 

More than 1.5 billion people use Windows daily although the numbers 

aren't exact Microsoft claims they have had one-and-a-half billion users of Windows per day in 2016 and 1.2 billion for Microsoft Office and if that seems impressive it's because it is one in seven people on earth is pretty much considering that statistically speaking not everyone has access to a laptop or other devices at the same time Microsoft has seen a shift from Windows in recent years the cloud is now the biggest thing they're taking notice of Microsoft Office 365 is the most important thing for them now and it shows there are around 120 million users of the platform's business division only.

Number 14:

Microsoft loves code names no this isn't 

a spy movie but if it were it would be called code name Microsoft probably I mean we don't really know but what we do know is that the company loves using code names for its products that are still in development they receive their store names later on in the production stage and Microsoft announces the actual name shortly before it's ready to be used by customers the code names range from pretty common ones such as codename blue for Windows Phone 8.1 and Memphis for Windows 98 to Zenon for the Xbox 360 and Red Dog for Microsoft Azure.

Number 15:

Microsoft was way ahead of its time 

from a start-up with many successes and failures in the 70s to the giant tech empire of today Microsoft's journey has been a fascinating one and frankly the world has a lot to thank them for they have worked tirelessly to bring personal computers to every home and while experimenting with different products ahead of their competitors for example Microsoft released the very first tablet in 2001 way ahead of the iPad craze generated by Apple in 2010 the tablet ran on Windows XP and it was supposed to do the same thing that a personal computer could do just failed to thrive on  the market.

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Number 16:

Microsoft employees love M&Ms people usually have 

traditions at the office such as buying gifts for birthdays or eating pizza on Tuesdays Microsoft employees however seemed to power their brains with lots and lots of sugar the tradition says that for each year that you've worked in the company you have to bring a pound of\ M&Ms for your coworkers that means if someone was hired 15 years ago they would have to bring in 15  pounds of the sugary stuff to work and if you thought that was sweet Microsoft restaurants in the Redmond Washington campus offer a wide variety of world-class cuisine making it pretty hard to decide each day what you're gonna have for lunch.