Who wants a little fun with numbers? Forbes has given it a go with Microsoft, detailing some very interesting facts and figures. Did you know that the company's first operating system - MSDOS 1.0 - contained 4,000 lines of code compared to the roughly 50 million in Windows Vista?
10,000 millionaires were made via stock ownership in Microsoft over the years too. Impressive. The company also owns or leases 32,404,796 total square feet, and had acquired 128 companies by the end of 2009.
We know the company has sold about 40 million Xbox 360 consoles worldwide too, but the cutest number has to be 5 million - the number of Zune players Microsoft has sold. That's compared to 260 million iPods. Aww.
Read the rest of the number crunching here.
10,000 millionaires were made via stock ownership in Microsoft over the years too. Impressive. The company also owns or leases 32,404,796 total square feet, and had acquired 128 companies by the end of 2009.
We know the company has sold about 40 million Xbox 360 consoles worldwide too, but the cutest number has to be 5 million - the number of Zune players Microsoft has sold. That's compared to 260 million iPods. Aww.
Read the rest of the number crunching here.
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