Microsoft Trivia Questions and Answers:

Who is the current CEO of Microsoft?
(a) Sunder Pichai
(b) Satya Nadella
(c) Parag Aggarwal
(d) Narayan Murti

Answer. (b)

Which was the first version of Microsoft Office released?
(a) Office 95
(b) Office 2000
(c) Office XP
(d) Office 365

Answer. (a)

Which cloud computing platform is developed by Microsoft?
(a) Azon Web Services
(b) G Cloud Platform
(c) Azure
(d) Oracle Cloud

Answer. (c)

Who are the two founders of Microsoft?
(a) Bill Gates and Steve Wozniak
(b) Bill Gates and Paul Allen
(c) Bill Gates and Sergey Brin
(d) Bill Gates and David Shaw

Answer. (b)

What is the name of Microsoft’s web browser?
(a) Edge
(b) Chrome
(c) Firefox
(d) Safari

Answer. (a)

What is the name of Microsoft’s search engine?
(a) Google
(b) Bing
(c) Yahoo
(d) DuckDuckGo

Answer. (b)

What was the original name of Microsoft?
(a) Micro-Soft
(b) Software Systems
(c) Traf-O-Data
(d) Microsoft

Answer. (a)

Who succeeded Bill Gates as CEO of Microsoft in 2000?
(a) Steven Anthony Ballmer
(b) Satya Nadella
(c) Jeff Bezos
(d) Paul Allen

Answer. (a)

Which programming language was developed by Microsoft?
(a) Java
(b) C++
(c) Python
(d) C#

Answer. (d)

Which company did Microsoft acquire in 2016 for $26.2 billion?
(a) LinkedIn
(b) GitHub
(c) Skype
(d) Minecraft

Answer. (a)

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In what year was Microsoft Windows released?
(a) 1980
(b) 1985
(c) 1990
(d) 1995

Answer. (b)

In what year did Bill Gates step down as CEO of Microsoft?
(a) 2000
(b) 2005
(c) 2010
(d) 2014

Answer. (b)

Which operating system became the dominant force for Microsoft in the 1990s?
(a) MS-DOS
(b) Windows 3.1
(c) Windows 95
(d) Windows XP

Answer. (b)

What was the name of the infamous antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft in the late 1990s?
(a) United States v. Microsoft
(b) European Union v. Microsoft
(c) World Trade Organization v. Microsoft
(d) United Nations v. Microsoft

Answer. (a)

When was Microsoft founded?
(a) 1975
(b) 1985
(c) 1995
(d) 2005

Answer. (a)

Which famous Windows operating system was released in 2001?
(a) Windows 7
(b) Windows XP
(c) Windows 8
(d) Windows 10

Answer. (b)

What was the first product Microsoft created?
(a) Microsoft Word
(b) Microsoft Windows
(c) Microsoft Excel
(d) Microsoft Basic

Answer. (d)

In what year did Microsoft acquire LinkedIn?
(a) 2010
(b) 2013
(c) 2016
(d) 2019

Answer. (c)

In what city was Microsoft founded?
(a) Seattle
(b) San Francisco
(c) New York
(d) Los Angeles

Answer. (a)

In what year did Bill Gates step down as the chairman of Microsoft’s board of directors?
(a) 2008
(b) 2014
(c) 2018
(d) 2020

Answer. (c)

Which operating system is developed by Microsoft?
(a) macOS
(b) Windows
(c) Linux
(d) Android

Answer. (b)

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Which gaming console was developed by Microsoft?
(a) PlayStation
(b) Xbox
(c) Nintendo Switch
(d) Sega Genesis

Answer. (b)

What was the name of the first version of Windows?
(a) Windows 1.0
(b) Windows 2.0
(c) Windows 3.0
(d) Windows 95

Answer. (a)

What is the name of Microsoft’s cloud computing platform?
(a) Microsoft Azure
(b) Microsoft Office 365
(c) Microsoft Dynamics 365
(d) Microsoft Exchange

Answer. (a)

In what year did Microsoft go public?
(a) 1980
(b) 1986
(c) 1992
(d) 2000

Answer. (b)