Microsoft’s first 11 employees. The young, smiling teen at the bottom left and the geek with a heavy beard are known to us, Bill Gates and Paul Allen respectively ...

Microsoft also let its employees check the ability to upgrade to Windows 11 via use of the PC Health Check app. However, its support teams "didn't get many upgrade tickets" as a result.

Married couple Steve and Marla Wood, a programmer and administrative assistant, respectively, were two of Microsoft's original 11 employees, and they were also the first two to leave the company.

On May 13, Microsoft told the state that about 2,000 employees would get laid off starting July 12. Software engineers made up more than 40 percent of those cuts, according to Bloomberg.