WastedTimes Facts about Bill Gates and M$ |
| Author: | aiolos [ Mon 20 Nov, 2006 ] |
| Post subject: | Facts about Bill Gates and M$ |
Now, these are no joke. They're true ! Windows 1.0 was released on 20th Nov 1985 and the hardware requirements were 256KB of RAM, DOS 2.0 and two floppy drives, two years late. Windows 1.0 was only out for two weeks before it had to be patched to fix bugs Between 1986 and 1996 micros0ft’s stock soared hundredfold and it was estimated that micros0ft had created 10,000 millionaires by 2000. Bill Gates earns $250 every second, $20m a day and $7.8BN a year. My personal favorite : If Bill drops a thousand dollar bill, it’s not worth his while to pick it up, as he’ll make the same amount in the time it takes him to pick it up. If Bill Gates was a country, he would be the 37th richest country in the world. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is the wealthiest organisation for charitable grants with assets of approx $65Bn. Erik Noyes from Charles Schwab came up with the phrase Blue Screen of Death “BSoD” in 1991. Bill Gates scored 1590 on his SAT. Paul Allen, scored a perfect 1600. An estimated 250-300K applications have been developed for Windows. |
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