#8 Microsoft’s Surface tablet was created in secrecy at the company’s Studio B location in Redmond, Washington, U.S., which supposedly has an underground bunker where the development team worked on the tablet.

#9 You can’t create folders in the name of CON, PRN, AUX, or NUL because these keywords are reserved by DOS.

#10 Microsoft services like Microsoft Office has over one billion users worldwide and its SkyDrive cloud service stores over one billion files.

 #11 The Redmond based giant files an estimated 3,000 patents a year and owns over 10,000, making it one of the top five patent owners in the country.

#12 The company's 1986 initial public offering, and subsequent rise in its share price, created an estimated three billionaires and 12,000 millionaires from Microsoft employees. It took 23 years since going public in 1986 for Microsoft to report its first-ever revenue drop.

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