Microsoft Company History
These two co-founders established Microsoft in 1975.
Who are Bill Gates and Paul Allen?
In Microsoft enterprise and business licensing, it is the tier represented by the letter "E".
What is Enterprise?
In The Matrix, taking this color pill allows Neo to stay in the simulation and believe whatever he wants to believe.
What is the Blue Pill?
Signed in 1840 between British representatives and Māori chiefs, it is widely considered New Zealand’s founding document.
What is the Treaty of Waitangi (or Te Tiriti o Waitangi)?
Created in 1971 on the ARPANET to test self-replicating code, it is widely considered the world's first computer worm.
What is Creeper?
Microsoft was originally founded in this Southwest city and state before relocating its headquarters to Washington.
What is Albuquerque, New Mexico?
This essential identity verification feature, requiring a second proof method, is included by default across all M365 business plans.
What is Multi-Factor Authentication (or MFA)?
In this 1983 film starring Matthew Broderick, a student accidentally hacks into a military supercomputer named WOPR to play a game.
What is WarGames?
This famous 1854 armed rebellion by Victorian gold miners in Ballarat is considered a critical milestone for Australian democracy.
What is the Eureka Stockade (or Eureka Rebellion)?
In 1988, this Cornell graduate student released a self-replicating worm that inadvertently crippled large portions of the early Internet.
Who is Robert Tappan Morris?
Microsoft purchased this operating system from Seattle Computer Products in 1981, subsequently rebranding and licensing it to IBM.
What is QDOS (or 86-DOS)?
This plan tier is required over E3 if an organization needs out-of-the-box advanced threat protection, automated risk-based conditional access, and advanced eDiscovery.
What is M365 E5?
In the 1995 film Hackers, it is the handle of Dade Murphy, who previously crashed 1,571 systems in a single day.
What is Zero Cool (or Crash Override)?
In 1893, New Zealand made global history by becoming the first self-governing nation to grant women this fundamental right.
What is the right to vote (women's suffrage)?
In May 2000, tens of millions of Windows PCs were infected by this worm spread via an email titled "LOVE-LETTER-FOR-YOU.TXT.vbs".
What is the ILOVEYOU worm (or Love Bug)?
In 1997, Microsoft made a crucial $150 million investment to save this rival tech company from potential bankruptcy.
What is Apple?
This specific licensing capability allows frontline workers using F-series plans to share a single PC shift-by-shift without violating terms.
What is Shared Computer Activation (or SCA)?
In Sneakers (1992), the team is hired to recover a mysterious "black box" that performs this function against government and financial databases.
What is breaking encryption (or universal decryption)?
Before Canberra was officially opened as the national capital, the Australian Federal Parliament sat in this city from 1901 to 1927.
What is Melbourne?
Discovered in 2010, this malicious worm was engineered to physically destroy centrifuges at Iran's Natanz nuclear facility.
What is Stuxnet?
This was Microsoft’s internal codename for Windows 95 during its development phase.
What is Project Chicago?
Under Microsoft's New Commerce Experience, choosing a month-to-month commitment over an annual term results in this financial tradeoff.
What is a price premium (or ~20% markup)?
In Live Free or Die Hard, this term describes a multi-stage cyber attack designed to shut down a nation's transportation, financial, and utility infrastructure.
What is a Fire Sale?
In 1985, French secret service agents bombed and sank this Greenpeace flagship while docked in Auckland Harbor.
What is the Rainbow Warrior?
Distributed via floppy disks at a 1989 WHO conference, this attack is recognized as the first documented instance of ransomware.
What is the AIDS Trojan (or PC Cyborg Trojan)?