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1 ________ hosts free premium and retail games where players can compete against each other and in tournaments.

2 [54][55] On October 22, 2009 the first retail Microsoft Store open in Scottsdale, Arizona, the same day ________ was officially released to the public.

3 What area does Microsoft serve?

4 [16] On January 1, 1979, the company moved from Albuquerque to a new home in ________.

5 What is the slogan of Microsoft?

6 Alongside the release of Windows Vista, MSN Messenger became ________.

7 When was Microsoft founded?

8 What type of company is Microsoft?

9 How many employees does Microsoft have?

10 In 1987, Microsoft adopted its current logo, the so-called "________ Logo", designed by Scott Baker.

💡 Interesting Facts

  • as a means to challenge the Microsoft/Intel PC architecture, IBM executive Jack Kuehler formed the AIM alliance that created the PowerPC microprocessor used in Apple's computers from 1994 to 2006?
  • downloads from the Microsoft Update Catalog are accelerated with Microsoft's Background Intelligent Transfer Service, a technology that attempts to use as little bandwidth as possible?
  • the Windows Template Library is perhaps the only open source library by Microsoft?
  • the recent series of "I'm a PC" advertisements for Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system were created using Apple Macintosh computers?
  • Don Dodge, a former start-up evangelist for Microsoft, switched from using a Windows-based computer to a Mac-based one after he moved to Google?
  • Microsoft's Chrome project was so widely criticized by web developers for failing to meet media standards that the project was cancelled before it was released?
  • Microsoft attempted to tap into the Chinese computing market in 1999 with a prototype computer known as Microsoft Venus?
  • Microsoft chose Motorsports Hall of Fame of America inductee Chris Economaki to author the auto racing history portion of its Encarta encyclopedia?
  • Microsoft made its largest acquisition ever when it purchased digital marketing company aQuantive for over US$6 billion?
  • "Where do you want to go today?", launched in November 1994, was the title of Microsoft's first global image advertising campaign?
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