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.
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