Happy Birthday Microsoft
September 23, 2005 at 11:42 AM
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Microsoft, the worlds largest software company, celebrates its 30th anniversary today.
Microsoft Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates and Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer will congratulate employees for their contributions to date at Company Meeting Today at Safeco Field in Seattle.
- Microsoft currently has 640,000 partners in the Microsoft Partner Program.
- The youngest current employee at Microsoft is 18 years old; the oldest is 74.
- There are more than 2,000 bloggers at Microsoft.
- More than 3 million internal e-mail messages are exchanged by Microsoft employees every day.
- Approximately 42 million cans of soda have been consumed by employees since 1978, when the Microsoft tradition of free soda started.
- Microsoft started with two employees 30 years ago, Bill Gates and Paul Allen. Today, the company employees more than 60,000 people in 80 countries.