Microsoft Windows Comes Of Age - Happy 21st Birthday!
12. Between 1986 and 1996 Microsoft’s stock soared hundredfold and it was estimated that Microsoft had created 10,000 millionaires by 2000.
13. Bill Gates earns $250 every second, $20m a day and $7.8BN a year.
14. If Bill drops a thousand dollar bill, it’s not worth his while to pick it up, as he’ll make the same amount in the time it takes him to pick it up.
15. If Bill Gates was a country, he would be the 37th richest country in the world.
16. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is the wealthiest organisation for charitable grants with assets of approx $65Bn.
17. Erik Noyes from Charles Schwab came up with the phrase Blue Screen of Death “BSoD” in 1991.
18. Bill Gates scored 1590 on his SAT. Paul Allen, scored a perfect 1600.
19. 
The Windows operating system has 50 million lines of code (a line averages 60 characters) and grows 20% with every release. It’s put together by 7,200 people, comes in 34 languages and has to support 190,000 devices–different models of digital cameras, printers, handhelds and so on.
20. An estimated 250-300K applications have been developed for Windows.
21. Over 5 million testers signed up for Vista’s release candidates (I’m wagering the first patch will be released within 3 weeks!)
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Comment by designer kid on 15 October 2007:
lol
belated ahppy B’day oops System hang’ BSOD ! ——-> rebooting
Comment by Jimmy Indianapolis on 8 August 2007:
wow came upon this and I can say Microsoft @ 21 is like a college student. All about themself and really not ready to contribute anything to society. They may have the monopoly but at 21 you dont have my respect
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