Acronyms
MCS
What is Microsoft Consulting Services?
The operating margin of Microsoft in the quarter ending in June 2023 (+/- 2%)
What is 43%? (41-45 ok)
This software allows users to communicate and collaborate online using chat, voice, and video calls.
What is Teams?
The gaming division at Microsoft started with this video game console
What is XBOX?
This browser preceded Edge and was first introduced in 1995 to compete with Netscape.
What is Internet Explorer?
MFA
Microsoft currently has this many FTE as of August 2023 (+/- 20,000)
What is 210,000? (190,000 - 230,000 ok)
The product category that Defender, MFA, Firewall, Microsoft Authenticator, and Sentinel roll up to.
What is Security?
The search engine that launched in 2009 to compete with Google?
What is Bing?
The first email service that launched in 1996 to compete with AOL and Yahoo?
What is Hotmail?
FRA
What is Field Revenue Accountability?
The age Bill Gates became the youngest billionaire in 1987, two years after Microsoft Windows was released (+/- 2)
What is 31? (29-33 ok)
The product category that Storage, Blob, Azure Virtual Desktop, and Networking roll up to.
What is Infrastructure?
This exec sponsor for the Womens at Microsoft ERG happens also be Microsoft's current CFO
Who is Hood?
The CEO between Bill Gates and Satya Nadella
Who is Ballmer?
CSA
What is Cloud Solution Architect?
The acquisition price in 2016 of the professional networking site LinkedIn (+/- $3B)
What is $26 billion? (23B-29B ok)
This 50-inch interactive whiteboard has front-facing stereo speakers, 8 wheels, and a dynamic camera for conference calls.
What is Surface Hub?
The acronym for how we engage with customers, which includes 5 sales stages
What is MCEM?
This city was the original headquarters for Microsoft and is sometimes incorrectly confused as the capital of New Mexico
What is Albuquerque?
AOAI
The year when Microsoft released Windows 1.0, its first graphical user interface for MS-DOS (+/- 5)
What is 1985? (1980-1990 ok)
Companies purchasing this most-expensive licensing bundle to give their employees access to basic and advanced Office products, security, Viva, Forms, PowerBIPro, and Teams at $38 per user per month.
What is E5?
The group answers questions regarding legal matters are Microsoft and manages our exposure to lawsuits
What is CELA?
The 5-letter name of the very first Microsoft program that was developed and sold as an interpreter for the Altair 8800
What is BASIC or MS-BASIC or Altair BASIC?