This is How Microsoft Introduced Windows 1.0

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[citation][nom]Be0wulf22[/nom]Actually, it's a well known fact that Bill Gates stole the idea of a multi-tasking OS from Apple/Mac. Fast forward to today, and Micro$oft is still stealing ideas from Apple.[/citation]

And if you go back, Apple stole those ideas from Xerox.
 
1985, aaahhh i was putting the moves on my 6th grade sweetheart. playing games on my intellivision while every one else had commodores and atari's.
constantly having a mixed race war, with G.I.Joes, Transformers, Robotech, and Star Wars, with Star Wars mostly winning because they had sheilds! was in my 2nd year of learning programming on apple 2's and the first year our apples all had 2 5.25" floppy drives and the first year we had a mouse for them at school, and playing oregon trail on it all study hall after we broke all our Stompers cars and cursing Da'Bears! Madonna, Micheal Jackson, Wham!, and Prince were battling out in the music charts.
Micheal J. Fox ruled the silver screen with both Back to the Future and Teenwolf. november 20th i was packing my stuff to go move to New York the day after Thanksgiving.
 
[citation][nom]Be0wulf22[/nom]Actually, it's a well known fact that Bill Gates stole the idea of a multi-tasking OS from Apple/Mac. Fast forward to today, and Micro$oft is still stealing ideas from Apple.[/citation]
Wrong. Apple didn't invented multitasking or the gui. Unix for example in 69 had multitasking long before Apple even existed. The first GUI belonged to Xerox in 1973, 10 years before Apple. In 81 Xerox introduced the Star 8010 which was the first computer with a windows based GUI. The star also introduced other stuff like icons, folder, raster graphics. It was the first commercial computer with ethernet.

Even though Microsoft copied Apple, Apple also copied Xerox first.
 
[citation][nom]hang-the-9[/nom]And if you go back, Apple stole those ideas from Xerox.[/citation]
Apple paid Xerox. Microsoft did a lot of shady things in the 80s. It is what it is. The Mac was a superior system to anything Microsoft offered until at earliest, Windows XP. People prefer cheaper, lower quality hardware over high price and high quality. It's been proven time and again. Today, the two systems are pretty comparable. It depends on what pros and cons matter most to you. I choose Windows simply because I like games and because I can build my own system for half the price.
 
[citation][nom]Maxor127[/nom]Apple paid Xerox.[/citation]
No Apple didn't pay anyone for the use of the GUI. They stole the idea and didn't paid any license as did microsoft. In 88 Apple sued Microsoft for copyright infringement of the Mac OS GUI. In 89 Xerox sued Apple on the same grounds.
 
"1985. Just think about that. What were you doing?" Being conceived. In fact, the date of the release is exactly 9 months before I was born!
 
I like the video of ballmer promoting windows 3 (IIRC) in a commerical, its pretty hilarious.

[citation][nom]jadelith[/nom]I was exactly 1 day old when this was released[/citation]

I was a month and 3 days old!
 
Personally, that step Microsoft took when it realized that DOS is getting lame, they need to do that again. They need to quit the whole Windows name, and start something revolutionary. And they need to do that soon. Otherwise, its just a company that will run into a brick wall eventually.
 
[citation][nom]peterkidd[/nom]"...lets users integrate the tasks they perform with their computer by providing the ability to work with several programs at the same time and easily switch between them without having to quit and restart individual applications."Fast forward to current day for iphone, sans iOS 4. Good job Apple you just did it! Haha.[/citation]
I'd take iOS 4 or Windows 1.0 over Symbian. 😛
 
[citation][nom]gamebrigada[/nom]Personally, that step Microsoft took when it realized that DOS is getting lame, they need to do that again. They need to quit the whole Windows name, and start something revolutionary. And they need to do that soon. Otherwise, its just a company that will run into a brick wall eventually.[/citation]Wow what a flash of brilliance! You could totally take the reigns and turn poor unsuccessful Microsoft into a thriving company.
 
Windows 1985, the introduction of multi-tasking. Apple 2010, still a work in progress. So sorry Apple, don't fret, there are plenty of idiots that will buy your stuff!
 
[citation][nom]schizz69[/nom]1 thing I have to say about Win 1.0 there was no room for bloatware. All code did something useful. Why can't more modern systems take a page from the old testament?[/citation]

Most of the code in Windows is useful. The bloatware tends to come from the OEMs such as Dell/HP. Sometimes its not so bad, other times its horrible. Asus started a desktop line and they have maybe 2 or 3 programs installed but most of them are useful.

But I always wonder how people can forget that MS did have a GUI, albiet not pretty but still a GUI, back in 1985. Most think Windows 3.11 was the first Windows GUI but thats not so.

Ahhh the memories.
 
There is a popular misconception that Xerox PARC created the GUI first.
Folks read up about Douglas Englebart who demonstrated 2 networked computers using a primitive GUI that utilized Windowing elements and hypertext with a computer mouse,a revolutionary chorded keyset with video teleconferencing back in 1968 before even the ARPANET.Go to Wikipedia and read up about Douglas Englebart or The Mother of All Demos.
The original 1968 demonstration has been saved and you can even watch it today.The demonstration occurred around the time of the Apollo 8 circumlunar moon shot.
 
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