1. Before starting Microsoft, Allen and Gates had a company that designed a computer system that automatically processed traffic counting data. Name this short-lived enterprise?

2. To primarily develop and sell what product was MS founded in 1975?

3. The company’s best-known product is the Windows Operating Systems. Can you name which versions of Windows had the codenames Chicago, Longhorn, and Whistler?

4. Apart from Gates and the present head Satya Nadella, who else has held the post of CEO?

5. In a deal worth more than $68 billion, the largest ever purchase for the firm happened earlier this year. What did Microsoft acquire and what was its previous biggest buy?

6. Not all of Microsoft’s products have hit the jackpot. Name the portable media player launched in 2006 that was discontinued in 2011 because of poor patronage.

7. Apart from Nadella, name the only other Indian (an IITian) in the Microsoft Board of Directors.

8. Primarily known for making software, the company made its first hardware in 1983. What was it?

9. ‘Bill, thank you. The World’s a better place’ Who is said to have made this comment after Microsoft came to the rescue of this person’s company in 1997 with an infusion of $150 million?

10. What is the lasting contribution of British music composer Brian Eno?