The Original Microsoft Windows 1.0 Press Release
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At any rate, on very interesting part of the document was that it emphasized that it was created on Windows Write. Often I open promotional PDFs for Office 2010, iWork, and more just to look at the properties, and usually they're created in Adobe InDesign, not the program they're promoting. Would make more sense to show you're "eating your own dog food" and make your promotional materials in your own program as they did here.
Technical people tend to get this wrong with pitches that are all about the "how", when they should be about the "why".
We hackers tend to love the details of how something works. Regular people just care about the benefits that a black box brings to them.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphical_Environment_Manager
If ever there was a good lesson it's this - DRDos was lighyears ahead, and far superior to MSDos. GEM was ridiculously more advanced than Windows, yet they lost. Having the better product doesn't always translate to winning.
Of course things like this helped MS:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AARD_code
(MS put some code in place to detect DR-DOS and make things not work properly).
"Microsoft Senior Vice President Brad Silverberg later sent another memo, stating: "What the [user] is supposed to do is feel uncomfortable, and when he has bugs, suspect that the problem is DR-DOS and then go out to buy MS-DOS."
It'd be great to see a movie made of this period of time when MS were engaging in so many dirty tricks.
EDIT: Looks like i had GEM2, the "lawsuit friendly" version. DRI had been sued by Apple for similarities between the MacOs of Lisa and GEM, they removed some features like overlapping windows on the desktop and a few animation effects.
As the DoJ proved so aptly, it's the least ethical salesforce that wins.
DR-DOS and GEM was sold to end users. MS-DOS and, later, Windows, was sold to OEMs in the form of the Microsoft tax, sucking out any opportunity for competitors.
> It'd be great to see a movie made of this period of time when MS were engaging in so many dirty tricks.
It would take a five-season series for that...
Interesting that even in 1985 (with relatively few products released) Microsoft still couldn't resist from using fluff terms like "Premiere"
Windows Vista Enterprise Premium Gold Edition.
So they were technically correct.
The jury is still out on that "Premium Gold" part, though.
Still, I miss being a command line encyclopedia.
This is plain wrong.
I don't think Win 1.0 can run Pro 9 or play a HD movie. I don't think also that $50 hardware at enough to open 3/4 browsing tabs.
Another feature that was finally updated in Win7 was the "Add Font" interface, which as late as Vista was still using the Win3.1 UI: http://www.imgur.com/lGSIA.png
Someone working on Tron Legacy must have a similar feeling as if you look really closely at the desktop in the trailer you can see it shows "SolarOS 4.0.1".
Wait, what?