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TRIVIA TODAY - Monday, July 19, 2010
Greetings Infomaniacs,
Did everyone have a good weekend? I'm running a bit behind
schedule this morning, so I'll let you get right to the
trivia!
Enjoy!
Melissa
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TODAY'S MYSTERY QUOTE
QUOTE: ?The computer was born to solve problems that did
not exist before.?
HINT: (1955-), American business magnate, philanthropist,
author and chairman of Microsoft.
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RANDOM TIDBITS
The first ever mention of ?Microsoft? was in a letter from
Bill Gates to co-founder Paul Allen in 1975. Gates initially
wrote the company name as Micro-soft.
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?Microsoft? was officially registered as a company in
November, 1976 in New Mexico where Gates and Allen were
working with their first major customer, MITS. Microsoft
didn?t move to its current campus in Redmond, Washington
until 1986.
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Pioneering musician Brian Eno was the musical brains behind
Window 95?s start up tune, dubbed ?The Microsoft Sound.?
Eno also composed the music for the computer game Spore.
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VIDEO CLIP
Super News! - Bill Gates vs. Steve Jobs
Bill Gates and Steve Jobs go virtual in the funny animated
parody of the Mac vs. PC commercials from Apple. Find out
who will will the battle between these old friends.
http://www.evtv1.com/player.aspx?itemnum=7080
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Ever since the company?s first operating system, Microsoft
has worked on its projects under codenames. Apparently Gates
was ready to launch Windows under the name ?Interface Manager?
before he was persuaded to change it by an employee.
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The average Microsoft employee, or ?Softie? as they call
themselves, is a 38-year-old male with the average salary
for a developer coming in at $106,000. Microsoft currently
employs 88,180 people who work across 32,404,796 square
feet of Microsoft?s premises, over 50,000 of which are U.S.-
based.
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Microsoft holds over 10,000 patents and files around 3,000
every year. Although most of the patents relate to obscure
elements of software, the 5,000th and 10,000th were consumer-
friendly, easily-understandable ideas. The 5,000th was for
tech in Xbox 360 games that lets people ?watch? a video game
remotely, while the 10,000th was for the Microsoft Surface,
linking real-life objects with data and images.
(mashable.com)
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*** Weekly Mind-Scrambler ***
I'm pleasing to the eye
A tool for many absent of mind
A tapestry of fickle lies
Blind to even the most pensive spies
I'm often the breeder of fervent lust
But I am by far one you shouldn't trust.
What am I?
Submit your answer by visiting: http://www.thedailytease.com
Answer will be posted in Friday's Trivia Today. Good Luck!
If your name appears in Friday's newsletter,
email me your complete name and address and I will ship
your prize.
Be sure to put "Winner" in the subject line.
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QUOTE: ?The computer was born to solve problems that did
not exist before.?
ANSWER: Bill Gates.
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Questions? Comments? email us at: mailto:melissa@gophercentral.com