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Bill Gates first spelled the company's name as Micro-soft, which made sense because it meant "microcomputer" and "software."

October 25, 2001 Microsoft launched Windows XP - the most popular product, and it is compiled with 45,000,000 lines of code.

The standard Linux kernel today has over 10,000,000 lines of code, and this number is growing at the rate of 10% annually. About 4500 lines of code are added and 1500 lines are changed every day. First, in 1991, version 0.01 of the Linux kernel was released with 10239 lines of code.