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5 of the best desktop operating systems you never used: Bill Gates' original dream when he created Microsoft was to have "a computer on every desk and in every home, all running Microsoft software." Clearly, he accomplished that goal. Depending on whose statistics you want to believe, Windows has a market share in the high 80% - low 90% range....; Tags: Desktop, Steve Jobs, BeOS, IBM OS/2, DOS, Operating System, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., IBM Corp., NeXTSTEP, NeXT Computer Co., DESQview, GEOS, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, John Sheesley; Blog posts 2008-03-19
Who's Joe?: blog rootTaming DOS appsOnce upon a time, there was a DESQview tuning program called Tame. (Never heard of DESQview? Shame on you.) Not only does it still exist, it's moved into tuning DOS apps running under Windows. It does it very well, too. (www.tamedos.com, if you'd find something like that...; Tags: Microsoft development tools, Microsoft Windows NT, Programming languages, Tim.Parsons@..., DOS App, DOS, DESQview; Discussion threads 2005-05-20

Microsoft's state of denial: Market forces versus real needsThe irony of the whole thing is that we, the consumers, are going to be dragged kicking and screaming into Vista by the juggernaut of market forces. OK, I can ignore Vista until SP2 or so, but there will come a time when file-sharing with fellow...; Tags: chawkins@..., linux, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista, networking, vista; Discussion threads 2007-01-05
Happy 20th Bday Windows!: Yesterday (November 20) was the 20th birthday of everyone's favoriteoperating system - Windows. Windows 1.0 shipped November 20,1985. Looking back at Windows 1.0 now is something of a joke. The oldgraphical DOS Shell that came with DOS 6.0 was more graphical thanWindows 1.0. You could run a few...; Tags: Microsoft Windows, Windows 1.0; Blog posts 2005-11-21
A legacy of Windows, part 1: Windows 1-2-3: In this Daily Drill Down series, Mike Jackman draws a history of Windows, all the way back to 1.0 and up to the ghosts of Windows future versions Whistler and Blackcomb. In this first part, he covers Windows from version 1.0 through 3.1.Believe it or not, the Windows graphical operating...; Tags: Operating systems, Michael Jackman, Microsoft Windows, GUI, typewriter; Technical articles 2000-09-08

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