40 Amazing Things You Never Knew About Microsoft


#37 When you type ‘Q33N’ in Wingdings font, the word page displays ‘Q33N’ image. It is the flight number of the flight that struck one of the two World Trade Centers on 9th September 2001.

#38 Steve Ballmer, the current CEO of Microsoft, became the first billionaire of the company that wasn’t a co-founder or relative of a founder, thanks to his stock options package.

#39 Microsoft, the software giant, has been manufacturing hardware dating back to 1983 with the introduction of the Microsoft Mouse 1.0.

#40 In 1981, Microsoft acquired a program called QDOS, which stood for ‘Quirky and Dirty operating system’ for $25,000 and went on to rename it MS-DOS. IBM soon partnered with the company and MS-DOS became the preferential IBM PC OS.

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