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Microsoft was originall𝓡y called Micro-Soft, a combination of the terms micro꧋computer and software.
Microsoft co-fou𓂃nder Bill Gates didn't start the company alone; his high school friend Paul Allen was the other half of the founding duo.
Before Microsoft, Gate✃s and Allen created Traf-O-Data, a computerised machine that processed data from traf💯fic counter tubes.
The infamous Blue Screen of Death didn't de🔥but in Windows; it first appeared in the OS/2 operating system.
In 1𒁃994, Bill Gates bought the Leicester Codex, a collection of Leonardo da Vinci's writings, and even featur🌠ed some of the papers as a screensaver in Microsoft Plus! for Windows 95.
The "MS" in MSNBC stands for Microsoft, which co-founded the news network with NBC🍒 in 1996 before selling its stake in 2012.
Bill Gates has been the richest person in the world since 1993, with 🐻a net worth exceeding $100 ᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚbillion in 1999.
Although Bill Gates dropped out of Harvard, he attended for three years, had enough credits to graduate, and received an honorary docto𓃲rate in 2007.
Bill Gates co-founded the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation with his ex-wife Melinda to tackle global issues like healthcare, ꦉeducation, and poverty.
Bill Gates stepped down as Microsoft CEO in 2000, bef☂ore the release of Windows XP.