Interesting Facts About Windows from the History

• More than 70.39% of Internet users are currently running Windows, and there are 1,693,244,385 users. (As per 2012)

• Bill Gates started Microsoft with Paul Allen in Gates’ 500-square-foot garage in 1975 with a huge vision—a computer on every desktop and in every home. 

• Microsoft currently employs 88,180 people who work across 32,404,796 square feet of Microsoft’s premises.

• Microsoft shipped out the first copy of Windows 1.0 on November 20, 1985. Its TV commercial featured current CEO Steve Ballmer as an enthusiastic salesman.

• Windows 1.0 only required a minimum of 256 kilobytes (KB), two double-sided floppy disk drives, and a graphics adapter card.

• Control Panel made its first appearance in Windows 2.0.

• Windows XP was compiled from 45 million lines of code.