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46 unusual facts about Microsoft


Alfaskop

From 1994 these companies were co-operating closely and delivering network technologies, Microsoft solutions, and systems integration.

August 2006 in video gaming

In a discussion at Microsoft Gamefest, security development engineer David Weinstein warns of active organized crime on MMORPG servers.

BanxQuote

- a unit of Time Warner Inc. (NYSE: TWX); MSNBC Interactive News LLC - a joint venture of Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) and NBC Universal; AOL Inc. (NYSE: AOL); LendingTree LLC - a subsidiary of Tree.com Inc. (Nasdaq: TREE); and Move, Inc. (Nasdaq: MOVE) operator of Realtor.com.

Binary search algorithm

Microsoft's .NET Framework 2.0 offers static generic versions of the binary search algorithm in its collection base classes.

Brendan Sullivan

He also sued Microsoft, on behalf of nine state attorneys general who were unhappy with the federal government's decision to drop the Microsoft antitrust case.

CellarTracker

CellarTracker was created in 2003 after creator Eric LeVine, then a programmer at Microsoft, had made the program for himself, tracking his wine.

Eranthemum

This plant was shown in Microsoft's Future Vision 2019 video, where Microsoft showcased their view on how the world will look in the future from a productivity standpoint.

Ex Box Boys

The band was previously known as The Xbox Boys, until the band ran into legal troubles with Microsoft.

Find My Phone

Microsoft's My Windows Phone service offers a free facility called "Find my Phone" for phones running Windows Phone.

Fort Gay, West Virginia

In 2010, Fort Gay was in the news when a resident of the town had his Xbox Live account suspended for writing "fort gay WV" as his location, as Microsoft has language policies that prohibit references to homosexuality.

Home Energy Saver

Microsoft, the first organization to license the Home Energy Saver, uses it to drive Microsoft Hohm.

HomeRF

The group was disbanded in January 2003 after other wireless networks became accessible to home users and Microsoft began including support for them in its Windows operating systems.

Introsort

The Microsoft .NET Framework Class Library, starting from version 4.5 (2012), uses Introsort instead of simple QuickSort.

Joel Dehlin

Prior to working for the LDS Church, he worked at Microsoft for 10 years in various roles, at Arthur Andersen, and at Novell.

July 2006 in video gaming

Microsoft announces that it will release a handheld to rival the iPod.

June 2006 in video gaming

Microsoft founder and chairman Bill Gates announces he will be stepping down from day-to-day responsibilities to be more active in the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

Microsoft Baseball 2001

It was released by Microsoft and was somewhat popular, though the series has since been discontinued.

Microsoft Max

Microsoft Max was the codename for a prototype software application developed by Microsoft.

Microsoft Music Central

Microsoft Music Central was a music encyclopedia on CD-ROM produced by Microsoft, similar to their Cinemania product and part of the Microsoft Home range.

Microsoft Schedule Plus

Microsoft Schedule Plus (or Microsoft Schedule+) was a time management software product developed by Microsoft, but was discontinued as part of Microsoft Office when most of its functionality was incorporated into Outlook 97.

Ngee Ann Secondary School

Construction works for PRIME have been fully completed in late 2010.Besides being name as the COE of ICT, the school have achieve names such as Microsoft Mentor School, Microsoft Pathfinder School and Microsoft Living Lab by CEO of Microsoft.

Nordallianz

Many corporations have located their business outside of Munich and thus within NordAllianz, including the German or European Headquarters of companies such as Microsoft, the EADS, General Electric, Swiss Re, ProSiebenSat.1

Orange County Astronomers

The game changer was the standardization by IBM of the personal computer and the Operating system by Microsoft.

Para Fuera

The film was conceptualized when Dr. Richard Bing learned of Microsoft's new search engine Bing, and wrote a letter to Microsoft about his life and upcoming 100th birthday.

Parc Bit

Many innovation research centres of enterprises related with tourism are placed here, such as Trivago or Microsoft.

Petabyte

In May 2013, Microsoft announces that as part of their migration of Hotmail accounts to the new Outlook.com email system, they'd migrated over 150 Petabytes of user data in six weeks.

Picture Perfect Morning

The video for Good Times was included as part of the multimedia samples included on Microsoft's Windows 95 Companion CD-ROM.

Reed Hastings

On March 26, 2007, Microsoft announced that Hastings had been elected to its board of directors.

Rich Barton

Richard Barton (born June 2, 1967) is a former Microsoft executive and founder of online travel company (and Microsoft spinoff) Expedia, Inc. and real-estate internet company Zillow.

ROOD

ROOD also criticised the fact that this site was obviously linked to MSN, which means free publicity for Microsoft.

Sack of Aquileia

This sack appears as part of the final scenario in the Attila the Hun campaign in the Microsoft computer game Age of Empires II: The Conquerors.

Service Pack 2

Note: Service Pack 2 may also refer to patches released for a number of other Microsoft products.

Soundscapes by Robert Fripp

On May 4, 2006, Steve Ball invited Robert Fripp back to the Microsoft campus for a second full day of work on Windows Vista following up on his first visit in the Fall of 2005.

System 1

The features of the operating system included a total lack of a command line interface (which was included in Microsoft's Windows 1.0 introduced in 1985), Finder, and the menu bar.

Taguspark

In an area of approximately 3.6 km², 2 km² of which are occupied by the Park, there are several research and development labs, innovative startups and business incubators in a range of fields such as information technologies (e.g. Microsoft, MIPS Technologies), telecommunications, electronics, materials, production, energy, environment, biotechnologies and fine chemistry.

Taipei Municipal Lishan Senior High School

LSSH joins the Microsoft's Taiwan School Of The Future Education Programme.

Tal-y-llyn Lake

In 2009 a landscape photograph of the lake was included as an official desktop wallpaper (GB-wp3) with the release of the Microsoft operating system Windows 7, thus bring an image of the lake to millions of desktop PCs.

Teach For India

Many TFI Fellows in recent years are young professionals who have worked in the corporate sector for organisations such as Goldman Sachs, McKinsey, Microsoft, JPMorgan, Hindustan Unilever, Infosys, Thermax and Siemens.

The Timothy Plan

Among the better known companies that don't meet the plan's guidelines are General Electric, The Coca-Cola Company, Microsoft, Starbucks, Time Warner and Walt Disney Company.

Threedegrees

threedegrees or 3° (frequently referred to as Three Degrees) was a communication and P2P application produced by Microsoft.

Tim Lees

He has performed and choreographed many football skills commercials including Coca-Cola Street Striker where Wayne Rooney headed the campaign later shown on Sky One, a Toni & Guy UK tour and at Wembley Stadium for Microsoft.

United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas

In 2009 Judge Leonard Davis, of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, ordered a permanent injunction that "prohibits Microsoft from selling or importing to the United States any Microsoft Word products that have the capability of opening .XML, .DOCX or DOCM files (XML files) containing custom XML," according to an announcement by the plaintiff, Toronto-based i4i Inc.

Upstate South Carolina

Clemson University, BMW, IBM, Microsoft, and Michelin have combined their resources to create International Center for Automotive Research (ICAR), a research park that specializes in the development of automotive technology.

Wazimbo

The song was featured first in a Microsoft commercial in California and in 2001 was part of the song track for the movie 'The Pledge' directed by Sean Penn and starring Jack Nicholson.

Wings of Power: WWII Heavy Bombers and Jets

Wings of Power adds vintage historical military aircraft to Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004.

Wings of Power WWII Heavy Bombers and Jets is a video game of the flight simulation genre released in 2004 as an add on to enhance Microsoft Flight Simulator 2004.


A2LL

The application server was developed using Microsoft's (D)COM technology and uses an Informix 9.4x database running on a Solaris machine containing 80 CPUs and a 300 GB Cache-RAM.

AMD mobile platform

Both low-power APU versions feature two Bobcat x86 cores and fully support DirectX11, DirectCompute (Microsoft programming interface for GPU computing) and OpenCL (cross-platform programming interface standard for multi-core x86 and accelerated GPU computing).

Amped: Freestyle Snowboarding

The video game also contains three songs from band Ink & Dagger's album The Fine Art of Original Sin. In 2005, former drummer Ryan McLaughlin sued Microsoft, claiming that they were used without the band's knowledge.

Andrew Cassese

In 2007, he starred as Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen in the Philadelphia Theatre Company premiere of Nerds://A Musical Software Satire.

Appleseed Foundation

The current co-chairs are Eric Koenig, retired from Microsoft and Susan Haller of Sprint Nextel.

Bhaskar Pramanik

As Chairman of Microsoft India, he reports directly to Jean-Philippe Courtois who is currently the President of Microsoft International.

Boutique

For example, before the release of the Wii, a Time Magazine article suggested that Nintendo could become a "boutique video-game company", producing games for niche audiences, rather than trying to compete directly with Microsoft and Sony.

CAML

Collaborative Application Markup Language, an XML-based markup language used with the Microsoft SharePoint collaborative portal application

DAK Industries

Microsoft had sought to obtain payment from DAK for a non-exclusive software licensing agreement covering mostly its Word product.

Derrick Fung

As part of the undergraduate program, he interned at Microsoft in Marketing, BNP Paribas in Equity Derivative Sales and on the trading floor of Merrill Lynch in 2009 as the first class after the merger with Bank of America.

Dynamic DNS

Microsoft developed alternative technology (GSS-TSIG) based on Kerberos authentication.

École des technologies numériques appliquées

Students of ETNA can prepare major certifications (Microsoft, Cisco Systems, Oracle).

Ensemble Studios

Ensemble Studios was a video game developer initially established in 1995 as an independent company by Tony Goodman, Rick Goodman and John Boog-Scott, but was acquired by Microsoft in 2001 and operated as an internal studio until 2009, when it was officially disbanded.

Expanded memory

(Microsoft thought that bank switching was a necessary, but inelegant and temporary, stopgap measure; Bill Gates said of expanded memory, "It's garbage! It's a kludge! ... But we're going to do it".)

Fredric Alan Maxwell

He is the author of Bad Boy Ballmer: The Man Who Rules Microsoft an unauthorized biography of Steve Ballmer (Morrow, 2002; HarperBusiness, 2003) which has been translated into six languages.

Graphical user interface

The menus were accessed by different keys (control in WordStar, Alt or F10 in Microsoft programs, "/" in Lotus 1-2-3, F9 in Norton Commander to name a few common ones).

Harriet Miers

As a commercial litigator, she represented clients including Microsoft and the Walt Disney Company.

In Search of the Pope's Children

He then made the claim that 87% of Ireland's exports generated by multinational companies such as Microsoft, Apple Computer, Dell, Intel, and Google, implying that decisions made in New York boardrooms have a far greater effect on the Irish economy than decisions made in the Dáil.

Institut de recherche et d'innovation

Originally founded by Bernard Stiegler and the Centre Pompidou, the IRI became an independent body in 2008, co-sponsored by the Centre Pompidou, the Centre for Contemporary Culture of Barcelona, and Microsoft France.

International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad

It is close to HITEC City (a centre housing software development centres of companies like Microsoft, Oracle Corporation, Motorola, Infosys and GE Capital) and the presence of IT majors from across the globe right on the campus through their schools and research centers.

Internet Society of China

The ISC issues what the Chinese government calls “self-disciplinary regulations,” including the Public Pledge on Self-Discipline for the Chinese Internet Industry, which has been signed by thousands of organizations operating websites in China, including Baidu, Soseen, Yahoo, Microsoft and Google.

Java Champions

In 2006, the Java Champions supported Michael Kölling in his attempts to get Microsoft to withdraw their patent application that would have stopped BlueJ.

Ken Nicholson

He was the founder of GamePC Consortium and inventor of the technology used by Microsoft as the basis for Windows' DirectX graphics.

Kikizo

Video Games Daily is home to over 300 interviews with high profile video game industry executives; as of July 2011 it remains the only consumer gaming site in the world to have interviewed all three console platforms' top-level bosses: Satoru Iwata - President of Nintendo Co., Ltd, Kaz Hirai - President and CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment, Inc and Robbie Bach - Chief Xbox Officer, Microsoft.

Language Interface Pack

Unlike MUI packs which are available only to Microsoft volume license customers and for select SKUs of Windows Vista, a Language Interface Pack is available freely and can be installed on a licensed copy of Microsoft Windows or Office and a fixed base language.

Look into the Eyeball

The single "Like Humans Do" was supplied with Windows XP Home Edition operating system to showcase Microsoft's Windows Media Player.

Lori Elberg

Lori's video "Spiderman Gets No Love" was featured on Cinemanow.com and Microsoft's Windows Media, was on the cover of Britain's New Media Age and featured in The Wall Street Journal in an article about internet video in 2001.

Marco Iansiti

Iansiti and Sinofsky discuss the approach Sinofsky took within the Windows and Windows Live Group at Microsoft to bridge this gap during the development of the Windows 7 operating system.

Merlien Institute Market Research Conferences

These conferences feature speakers from multinational companies such as Walmart, Hewlett-Packard, Citigroup, Procter & Gamble, Microsoft, Pepsico, Google, Coca-Cola, Unilever, Nestle, Huawei, international think tanks and research agencies.

Michael Cowpland

In 1996, he offered a challenge to Microsoft with a move into productivity software, acquiring WordPerfect from Novell for $158 million.

Microsoft Binary Format

In computing, Microsoft Binary Format (MBF) was a format for floating point numbers used in Microsoft's BASIC language products including MBASIC, QuickBasic and GW-BASIC.

Microsoft Script Debugger

Microsoft Script Debugger is relatively minimal debugger for Windows Script Host-supported scripting languages, such as VBScript and JScript.

Microsoft UI Automation

Microsoft UI Automation (UIA) is an Application Programming Interface that allows one to access, identify, and manipulate UI elements of another application.

MinWin

Several months after Traut's demonstration, some confusion arose from an interview by Ina Fried of CNET's News.com with Steven Sinofsky, the vice-president of Windows engineering at Microsoft.

National Film Festival for Talented Youth

Once again Nike sponsored a 48-hour student filmmaking competition, and the keynote panel, moderated by Nicholas de Wolff, featured "Social Network" Producer Dana Brunetti, Web series pioneer Hayden Black, Studio marketing leader Valerie van Galder, Microsoft head of Global Community Affairs Tim Dubel, and documentary filmmaker Stan Emert.

North East Surrey College Of Technology

The school is recognised as an Apple Authorised Training Centre and holds academy status with CISCO, Microsoft, and Oracle as a specialist training provider.

OpenVMS

Roger Gourd was the project lead for the Starlet program, with software engineers Dave Cutler (who would later lead development of Microsoft's Windows NT), Dick Hustvedt, and Peter Lippman acting as the technical project leaders, each having responsibility for a different area of the operating system.

Rémy Belvaux

On 4 February 1998 he was one of the four people (including Noël Godin and Jan Bucquoy), one of which who threw a cream pie in the face of the American businessman and Microsoft founder, Bill Gates, during Gates' visit to Brussels.

Scripps Genomic Health Initiative

A consortium of health care, technology and research leaders have joined forces in the first-of-its-kind research study, including genetic test provider Navigenics Inc., Affymetrix and Microsoft Corp.

Security and safety features new to Windows Vista

Windows Vista Service Pack 1 includes Secure Socket Tunneling Protocol, a new Microsoft proprietary VPN protocol which provides a mechanism to transport Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) traffic (including IPv6 traffic) through an SSL channel.

System Center Advisor

Microsoft System Center Advisor (SCA; formerly Codename Atlanta), is a commercial software as a service offering from Microsoft Corporation that helps change or assess the configuration of Microsoft Servers software over the Internet.

Techvedic

Techvedic entered into the business partnerships with software vendors like AVG, Intuit, Microsoft, etc., and leading OEMs including Dell and HP to become the authorized reseller of their products.

Universally unique identifier

UUIDs were originally used in the Apollo Network Computing System and later in the Open Software Foundation's (OSF) Distributed Computing Environment (DCE), and then in Microsoft Windows platforms as globally unique identifiers (GUIDs).

Van Wolverton

Wolverton has written other computer books, addressing MS-DOS, IBM OS/2, Microsoft Windows, WordPerfect, Netscape FastTrack, VisiCalc, QBasic and more.

Virtual chargeback

While numerous tools exist for tracking asset utilisation in a traditional sense (such as Microsoft's Operations Manager), they are considered by some to be of limited use when it comes to virtual machines.

Xpress Pro

One of the controversial aspects to the software was that it did not work on Microsoft's Windows Vista.