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[Podcast] Hard Hitting Microsoft Tidbits and NFL Football

Updated: Aug 6, 2021


S2E8 Two Guys, Coffee & Business


Hard Football Hit and Tackle

Today we're talking interesting Microsoft Tidbits and NFL football. So get your popcorn because it's showtime!



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Show Notes

  1. The first ever mention of Microsoft was in 1975 in a letter from Bill Gates to co-founder Paul Allen. It was written as Micro-Soft coming from microcomputer and software

  2. The favorite food on the Microsoft campus is pizza and the free drink choices are milk and orange juice. Employees drink 23 million free beverages very year. Microsoft has over 37 cafeterias.

  3. Microsoft uses code names for all new products and new releases.

  4. Microsoft software engineers are known as Softies

  5. Microsoft is one of the largest corporate collectors of artwork.

  6. The Microsoft campus has a lot of bunnies on it! Somewhere along the lines someone dropped off rapidly reproducing bunnies and they did what they do best.

  7. https://mashable.com/2010/07/17/microsoft-facts/#kWatL.AimEqj

  8. Microsoft has created three billionaires and as many as 12,000 millionaires.

  9. Microsoft employees are expected to bring M&Ms to the office to share on their work anniversaries – The tradition is one pound for every year they’ve been with the company.

  10. Microsoft is rumored to hold more than 50,000 patnets.

  11. In 1994 Timex and Microsoft designed the Datalink 150 watch together. It was the first smartwatch ever, beating Apple by 12 years. It also wasn’t that great.

  12. Microsoft coined the term tablet.

  13. https://www.businessinsider.com/18-facts-about-microsoft-2016-3

  14. The shortcut Alt-Shift-D will place the date automatically in MS Word

  15. Microsoft Office was launched for the Macintosh in 1989 before it was released for windows

  16. https://wallstreetinsanity.com/40-facts-you-didnt-know-about-microsoft/

Football

  • Top teams in each division

  • Who’s going to be in the super bowl

  • Who’s winning the super bowl

  • Best team of all time

  • Bears Record – on the record

  • Will the defense be ranked in the top 5 with addition of Roquan Smith?

Who do you have playing in and winning the Superbowl? Tell us in the comments section below!

YouTube Transcript

- guys coffee and business podcast

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welcome back everybody the - guys listen

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pizza thank you guys come hit - guys

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you did this podcast I love my

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quick cover total and I appear with Tom

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George nice and today we're gonna talk

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about some my crostata targeting

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Microsoft tidbits and the NFL football

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season that is upon us

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yeah I know I'm ever since last night

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saw the Bears rating at all Fame Game

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I've just been kind of zoom into my life

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thinking about it that's right I'm

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excited so today we'll take a different

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names I'll be Cris Collinsworth all

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right go from there

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so I actually found a bunch of

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interesting Microsoft decks that I did

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not know about there is a lot of codes

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that you can put into Microsoft Word

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that way should give you a four thousand

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written out characters of certain things

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and there's a 911 reference if you put

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in q33 and change the font Oh winged in

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it shows like a mailbox plane hitting to

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disturb others like towers and ran Wow

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pretty crazy um well I didn't find

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anything that cool I guess kind of I

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never knew where the name Microsoft came

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from oh and originally it was micro -

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and that's soft and it was for

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microcomputer and software oh that is

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not gained by the two

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so that's how they got there any it's

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crazy because I remember years ago to

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the Oh was like a little almost changed

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I think now it's just for color right

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yeah yeah used to be the window and

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holidays nice

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so that supposed to be this person to

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talk about that all right I kind of

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found a couple of interesting statistics

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their revenue and 28d so far against

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more than 110 billion just for one year

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isn't it crazy oh my god and this very

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first company they have one trillion in

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them yeah that's what's really so

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Microsoft's stock s95

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Wow which I could have been part of all

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right the first time in 1883 were yeah I

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think it started at 21-21 dollars a

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share which means you probably have like

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