History of Windows Operating Systems
History of the Windows Operating System
Rodney K. Gary
March 4, 2012
Diana Merkel - Instructor
Strayer University
Microsoft Boots Up
In the beginning of the 1970s, if we needed to copy a document or a secretary needed to produce a document over again for there supervisor they would likely us a carbon paper of some sort. Very few people even heard of microcomputers but Bill Gates and Paul Allen, two young computer enthusiasts saw a path to the future with personal computing.
Microsoft, which was the partnership of Gates and Allen in 1975 began very small but had a huge vision. There vision was placing a computer on every desk in every home across the world. Microsoft also began to change the way things were getting accomplished at work.
IBM approaches the newly formed Microsoft about a project code-named “Chess”. Microsoft continues to focus on a new operating system that manages, or runs, the computer hardware and also serves to bridge the gap between the processor and the computer hardware.
Introducing Windows 1.0
In 1982 Microsoft works on the first version of a new operating system originally called Interface Manager as the code name. Skeptic considered this to be “vaporware” but the final name became Windows because the boxes or computing “windows” that are fundamental to the new system. Bill Gates announces Microsoft Windows on November 10, 1983.
Two years after the initial announcement of Windows, Microsoft ships Windows 1.0 on November 20, 1985. Instead of typing MS-DOS commands, you could now just move the mouse to point and click your way through screens.
Scroll bars, icons, dialog boxes, and drop-down menus are introduced to make programs easier to learn and use. Without having to quit and restart each program you are able to switch among several of them. To help you manage day-to-day activities Windows 1.0 ships with Paint, Windows Writer, Notepad, Calculator, A Calendar, Card File and Clock.
Rodney K. Gary
March 4, 2012
Diana Merkel - Instructor
Strayer University
Microsoft Boots Up
In the beginning of the 1970s, if we needed to copy a document or a secretary needed to produce a document over again for there supervisor they would likely us a carbon paper of some sort. Very few people even heard of microcomputers but Bill Gates and Paul Allen, two young computer enthusiasts saw a path to the future with personal computing.
Microsoft, which was the partnership of Gates and Allen in 1975 began very small but had a huge vision. There vision was placing a computer on every desk in every home across the world. Microsoft also began to change the way things were getting accomplished at work.
IBM approaches the newly formed Microsoft about a project code-named “Chess”. Microsoft continues to focus on a new operating system that manages, or runs, the computer hardware and also serves to bridge the gap between the processor and the computer hardware.
Introducing Windows 1.0
In 1982 Microsoft works on the first version of a new operating system originally called Interface Manager as the code name. Skeptic considered this to be “vaporware” but the final name became Windows because the boxes or computing “windows” that are fundamental to the new system. Bill Gates announces Microsoft Windows on November 10, 1983.
Two years after the initial announcement of Windows, Microsoft ships Windows 1.0 on November 20, 1985. Instead of typing MS-DOS commands, you could now just move the mouse to point and click your way through screens.
Scroll bars, icons, dialog boxes, and drop-down menus are introduced to make programs easier to learn and use. Without having to quit and restart each program you are able to switch among several of them. To help you manage day-to-day activities Windows 1.0 ships with Paint, Windows Writer, Notepad, Calculator, A Calendar, Card File and Clock.
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