The Microsoft Files
This Microsoft product featured “Live Tiles” and competed against iOS and Android.
What is "Windows Phone"?
A 20th-anniversary 'glow up' featuring a 3D green disco ball app icon caused internet chaos and user backlash for this audio streaming giant
What is Spotify?
Currently chasing another MVP trophy, this Japanese dual-threat athlete shocked the sports world by signing a historic $700 million contract with the LA Dodgers
Who is Shohei Ohtani?
The terrifying roar of this 1993 blockbuster film's T-Rex was engineered by mixing the slowed-down cries of a baby elephant, an alligator, and a tiger.
What is Jurassic Park?
This iconic astromech Star Wars droid shares its name with the main branch of our SqlTelemetry repository
What is R2D2?
This animated Microsoft Office assistant became infamous for interrupting users with unwanted help suggestions.
What is Clippy?
Setting an all-time record, this hip-hop superstar dominated the Billboard charts in 2026 by dropping three separate albums on the same day
Who is Drake?
Long before leading Inter Miami, this superstar cemented his status as the G.O.A.T. by scoring twice in the thrilling 2022 final to win his first World Cup trophy.
Who is Lionel Messi?
To film a legendary, gravity-defying hotel hallway fight scene for this 2010 Christopher Nolan sci-fi film, engineers constructed a massive, 100-foot rotating steel centrifuge.
What is Inception?
While IBM's version famously won a game of Jeopardy!, Microsoft's version investigates the mysterious cases of automated crash dumps.
What is Azure Watson?
This Microsoft digital assistant was named after an AI character from the Halo franchise.
What is "Cortana"?
Ryan Gosling stars as a science teacher 2026 cinematic adaptation of an Andy Weir novel.
What is Project Hail Mary?
Led by series MVP Jalen Brunson, this Eastern Conference franchise went on a historic 11-game playoff win streak to secure a spot in the 2026 NBA Finals, marking their first Finals appearance since 1999.
What are the New York Knicks?
Twenty years later, Anne Hathaway and Meryl Streep returned to theaters for a sequel titled after this luxury Italian fashion brand.
What is The Devil Wears Prada 2?
This service's name combines a word for a bright blue sky with a term for a brave navigator, serving as Microsoft's engine for running queries.
What is Azure Data Explorer?
Microsoft acquired this video game company in 2014, best known for creating Minecraft.
What is 'Mojang Studios'?
The Costume Institute Benefit is the formal name for this star-studded May extravaganza, which featured a 'Garden of Time' dress code
What is the Met Gala?
Thanks to a certain pop superstar, millions of new viewers suddenly learned the name of this Ohio-born NFL star and three-time Super Bowl champion.
Who is Travis Kelce
To create the legendary, terrifying roar of the Kaiju in this 1954 monster film, sound engineers rubbed a resin-coated leather glove across the loosened strings of a double bass.
What is Godzilla?
Sharing its name with a colorful creature, this internal tool builds a pre-built index across repositories like SqlTelemetry to help engineers find similar runners and test patterns.
What is bluebird?
This Microsoft encyclopedia software was eventually replaced in popularity by Wikipedia.
What is "Encarta"?
Named for the mythological twin sister of Apollo, this ongoing NASA program aims to land the first woman and person of color on the moon
What is Artemis III
This city became the first to host the Summer Olympics three times when it hosted the 2012 Games.
What is London
Though it holds the record for the most Academy Award nominations in history with 14, this 1997 disaster epic ironically didn't receive a single nomination for its screenplay.
What is Titanic?
Meaning the universe or an ordered whole, this massive internal Microsoft platform runs SCOPE scripts and predates its Azure NoSQL database cousin.
What is Cosmos?