Microsoft is the world’s biggest multinational computer technology company formed by Bill Gates and Paul Allen in Albuquerque on April 4, 1975. In 1980 the Microsoft company partnership with IBM and later on it started its work producing Microsoft Windows Operating System, Microsoft Office suite software, games, music and videos and lines of search engines. Microsoft is the current top software product company and sell company too. Here, the Microsoft has a number of interesting facts on it which is we are going to present you.
Initially the Microsoft was as Microsoft
Initially the Microsoft was called as Microsoft and was intentionally introduced by Bill Gates to his fellow and co-founder Paul Allen and first the Micro-Soft was considered as the combination of microcomputer and software. In 1976 Microsoft registered at New Mexico by Bill Gates and Paul Allen and later on the Microsoft headquarter was moved to Redmond Washington.
Softie is a name for Microsoft average employee
The Microsoft average worker wanted to call themselves as softie and have the $106,000 salary an average. According to Microsoft employee data, it has 88,180 employee which are currently working on it and has the ratio of male and female 76:24%.
Product Codenames
Microsoft is a company where the company wants to work on its product under their names and then Bill Gates wanted to launch Windows by the name of Interface Manager but that time the employee of that company made the suggestion not to do so. And later on the product name were seem to have code names like “Lone Star”, “Longhorn” and etc.
Microsoft has a huge collection of Artwork
The Microsoft has a huge number of artwork collection over 5,000 including painting, statues, paper work, photographs and multimedia works. Microsoft believe that the artwork can make employee refresh and reduces the stress while working so as the it collected artworks done by local artists and by famous artists.
Microsoft stock has split nine times
Microsoft stock has split nine times till the date which is the most amazing fact of it. First the Microsoft was introduced on 13th March 1986 on public. At the beginning years, the Microsoft’s stock for public offering was $21 but now the stock would be equal to 288. As we know, the company dripped its stock when its price become too high and here the Microsoft dropped its stock nine times.