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aiolos

Mon 20 Nov, 2006


Facts about Bill Gates and M$

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Now,<b style="color:#FFA34F"></b> these are no joke.<b style="color:#FFA34F"></b> They're true <b style="color:#FFA34F"></b>!<b style="color:#FFA34F"></b>
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Windows 1.0 was released on 20th Nov 1985 and the hardware requirements were 256KB of RAM,<b style="color:#FFA34F"></b> DOS 2.0 and two floppy drives,<b style="color:#FFA34F"></b> two years late.<b style="color:#FFA34F"></b>
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Windows 1.0 was only out for two weeks before it had to be patched to fix bugs
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Between 1986 and 1996 Microsoft&<b style="color:#FFA34F"></b>#8217;s stock soared hundredfold and it was estimated that Microsoft had created 10,000 millionaires by 2000.<b style="color:#FFA34F"></b>
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Bill Gates earns <b style="color:#FFA34F"></b>$250 every second,<b style="color:#FFA34F"></b> <b style="color:#FFA34F"></b>$20m a day and <b style="color:#FFA34F"></b>$7.8BN a year.<b style="color:#FFA34F"></b>
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My personal favorite <b style="color:#FFA34F"></b>:<b style="color:#FFA34F"></b> <b style="color:#FFA34F"></b> If Bill drops a thousand dollar bill,<b style="color:#FFA34F"></b> it&<b style="color:#FFA34F"></b>#8217;s not worth his while to pick it up,<b style="color:#FFA34F"></b> as he&<b style="color:#FFA34F"></b>#8217;ll make the same amount in the time it takes him to pick it up.<b style="color:#FFA34F"></b>
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If Bill Gates was a country,<b style="color:#FFA34F"></b> he would be the 37th richest country in the world.<b style="color:#FFA34F"></b>
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The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is the wealthiest organisation for charitable grants with assets of approx <b style="color:#FFA34F"></b>$65Bn.<b style="color:#FFA34F"></b>
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Erik Noyes from Charles Schwab came up with the phrase Blue Screen of Death <b style="color:#FFA34F"></b>&<b style="color:#FFA34F"></b>#8220;BSoD&<b style="color:#FFA34F"></b>#8221;<b style="color:#FFA34F"></b> in 1991.<b style="color:#FFA34F"></b>
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Bill Gates scored 1590 on his SAT.<b style="color:#FFA34F"></b> Paul Allen,<b style="color:#FFA34F"></b> scored a perfect 1600.<b style="color:#FFA34F"></b>
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An estimated 250-300K applications have been developed for Windows.<b style="color:#FFA34F"></b>