Unique Things About Microsoft

Who is not familiar with Microsoft? the richest and largest software company in the world today? But do you know about something unique and interesting facts about Microsoft? This is little information on these unique facts

1. The mention of Microsoft's early

Microsoft name was first used on 29 November 1975 in a letter from Bill Gates, addressed to his fellow Microsoft founder Paul Allen. However, at that time his name was written as Micro-Soft Registered brand name of the company is officially a year later, on November 26, 1976.

2.iPod and Google Reproduction

Microsoft CEO, Steve Balmer, forcing children to use Microsoft products. In an interview with CNN television station, he once said that in many cases, children are very stubborn like other children. However, at least he can instill a rule to them not to use google or iPod.

3. Microsoft in Figures (1)

Currently, Microsoft employs about 95,828 people worldwide. The average age of those 37 years. In America alone, approximately 74.7% were male. Microsoft has 88 properties covering an area of ??1,121,739.83 square meters of buildings.

4. Microsoft in Figures (2)

Microsoft Dining Services is a caterer who serves the pegawa Microsoft in Redmond. The department every day provides 2200 pieces of pizza. Each year, an employee of Microsoft consumes nearly 4 million boxes of milk, 7 million dozen mineral water, and nearly 2 million tea bags.

5. Windows Sound Exclusive

Startup sound for Windows 95 was written by composer Brian Eno. To make a sound, he uses Apple's Macintosh tools. Meanwhile, other sound that is the vista created by Robert Fripp, former guitarist of the band King Crimson.

6. Exclusive to Mac: Office First

Microsoft Office first appeared in 1989. Package offered is still in the format of floppy disks or CD-ROM and is only for Mac OS operating systems only. Windows versions of Word, Excel and PowerPoint then offered in 1990.

7. Ancestors Windows

The first operating system called Xenix. Unix derivatives market is emerging on August 25, 1980. Bill Gates expects Xenix became standard operating system for PCs, but the reality is not. To operate the Xenix, you need a hard drive and 256 Kbyte RAM. While the first IBM PC had a maximum of 64 KBytes of RAM and hard drive prices are still too expensive because of the thousands of dollars.

8. Save The Wrong Button

Picture icon "save" in all Office programs before the 2003 version is wrong. Floppy disk slot cover is illustrated in the wrong position.

9. 16 Billion Per Data-Excel chart

Excel can manage a table that contains data up to 16,000 columns and one million rows. This amount is equal to 16 billion datasets.