
Last week, I showed off 10 fun facts about Apple. In the interest of equality amongst the OSes, here’s a corresponding list of 10 fun facts about Microsoft, including one of the most adorable things I’ve ever read: MS’s Redmond, Washington, campus is full of abandoned baby bunnies. That’s way cuter than the infestation of hipsters on Apple’s campus in Cupertino!
Also among the cool facts about Microsoft is that the company is actually a lot hipper than people let on. Not only do they ask some incredibly strange questions in their job interviews, the Windows boot-up noise was actually composed by avant-garde musician and generally experimental sound guy Brian Eno, who has worked with everyone from David Bowie to U2 and Coldplay. Like record producers, the company also gives code names to pretty much everything, in an attempt to obscure products before they hit the market (like how movies are shipped to theaters under fake names to prevent bootlegging straight from the 35mm film or how record producers give albums false identities for the same reason).
Another fun fact about Microsoft is that employees celebrate their anniversaries with M&Ms. No, they don’t get them, they give them! Specifically, they have to bring in a pound of everyone’s favorite chocolate candy for every year of employment with Microsoft. Who gets those M&Ms? Probably the company’s thousands of employees each get one.
Really, how can people hate on a company whose first staff photo looks like the inside of a Doobie Brothers album?
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