Microsoft Facts

In the 1980s, an IBM computer wasn't considered 100 percent compatible unless it could run Microsoft Flight Simulator.

HP, Google, Microsoft, and Apple have one thing in common — apart from the obvious that they are IT companies. They were all started in garages.

Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft was a college drop out.

Microsoft made $16,005 in revenue in its first year of operation.

In October 1997, when Internet Explorer 4.0 was released, Microsoft employees placed a giant 10-foot-tall IE logo on Netscape's lawn with a sign reading "From the IE team... We Love You."

Microsoft once sued a student named Mike Rowe for registering the domain 'MikeRoweSoft.com'.