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11月20日 Happy 21st birthday, Windows !20th of November, 2006 marks the 21st birthday of Windows. Windows 1.0 was released on 20th November, 1985. I found 21 interesting facts about Windows here and i reproduce them as follows:
1. Windows 1.0 was released on 20th Nov 1985 and the hardware requirements were 256KB of RAM, DOS 2.0 and two floppy drive.
2. The retail price was $100, which is worth about $177 in today’s money - pretty much the same as Windows XP Home.
3. Microsoft sent out a press kit featuring a squeegee and a washcloth to announce the launch of Windows 1.0, a full two years before the product was launched.
4. If Bill Gates had got his way, he would have called it “Interface Manager”. 21 years later, I don’t think Interface Manager Vista, or Vista Interface Manager would have had the same ring to it….
5. When Vista was launched Microsoft were David fighting Goliath, and had to fight many court battles:
“We weren’t kidding that we bet the entire company on it,” Gates recalls. “The strange thing was we were a much smaller company at the time. We were competing to establish this platform with companies larger than ourselves.”
6. Windows 1.0 was only out for two weeks before it had to be patched to fix bugs.
7. Windows crashes an estimated 25m times a day.
8. Windows 1.0 included a large number of utilities that are still part of Windows today - Calendar, Notepad, Terminal, Calculator, Clock, Windows Write and Windows Paint, Control Panel, and the Reversi game.
9. Support for Windows 1.0 was weak, and even Microsoft’s own apps didn’t support it. In fact, Excel and Word didn’t work with Windows until 1987 and 1989.
10. Windows 3.1 was the first stable release, which led to many hardware manufacturers preloading it on their computers. This proved to be a major turning point in Windows history and world domination.
11. Windows 3.1 (Pre-release name Janus) was released in March of 1992. In its first few months on the shelf it sold over 2 million copies (including upgrades). The Windows 3.1x OSs were groundbreaking for their time and they paved the road for today’s modern Microsoft environments.
12. Between 1986 and 1996 Microsoft’s stock soared hundredfold and it was estimated that Microsoft had created 10,000 millionaires by 2000.
13. Bill Gates earns $250 every second, $20m a day and $7.8BN a year.
14. If Bill drops a thousand dollar bill, it’s not worth his while to pick it up, as he’ll make the same amount in the time it takes him to pick it up.
15. If Bill Gates was a country, he would be the 37th richest country in the world.
16. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is the wealthiest organisation for charitable grants with assets of approx $65Bn.
17. Erik Noyes from Charles Schwab came up with the phrase Blue Screen of Death “BSoD” in 1991.
18. Bill Gates scored 1590 on his SAT. Paul Allen, scored a perfect 1600.
19. The Windows operating system has 50 million lines of code (a line averages 60 characters) and grows 20% with every release. It’s put together by 7,200 people, comes in 34 languages and has to support 190,000 devices–different models of digital cameras, printers, handhelds and so on.
20. An estimated 250-300K applications have been developed for Windows.
21. Over 5 million testers signed up for Vista’s release candidates 10月30日 Windows Vista just about to RTM !Having been involved with the Windows Vista Beta since the very beginning, I am very excited that Vista is about to RTM. Some RTM related news.
Check out the new Windows Vista and Office 2007 packaging here
Check out the new Windows Vista system sounds by Robert Fripp here Windows Vista can go RTM any moment now ! 10月25日 Presenting Windows Vista and Office 2007 at GTEC OttawaGTEC is a conference targetted mainly towards the public sector. Big IT players show off their products to the government agencies and demonstrate how their product can help towards a better governance. This year GTEC was from 23th-25 October at the Ottawa Congres Centre. I was part of Microsoft Canada's crew and demonstrated Windows Vista and Office 2007 to the attendees there. It was a lot of fun and I was surprised at the number of people who had tried out the BETA versions of Windows Vista; everyone seemed to be so excited about the product ! Some of the pictures from yesterday follow.
 At work...  ...At play 8月2日 150+ free software provided by MicrosoftWho knew that Microsoft provides more than 150, quality freeware utilities ? Well, technical evangelist, Blake Handler took the pain to list them all at one place Thanks Blake ! 6月27日 Fear Factor gives wrong infoOn tonight's Fear Factor, the host was heard saying "Tivo is the only program which allows you to burn your recorded TV program to DVDs". This is so not correct. I have been using Windows XP Media Center edition for quite sometime now and it lets you do this and much more ! For more info check out this link. Get your facts right fear factor ! 6月7日 Windows Vista BETA2 public downloadWant to download Windows Vista BETA 2 ? Microsoft is about to make the beta available for public download. The following links are not yet live, but can go live any time now.
English x86 http://download.windowsvista.com/preview/beta2/en/x86/download.htm English x64 http://download.windowsvista.com/preview/beta2/en/x64/download.htm 6月5日 Windows XP Media Center Edition keyboard shortcutsI am no expert at Windows XP MCE. To find a expert in that specific field, you can find the guru's blog here. I was looking for a list of keyboard shortcuts to use when i am next to the PC and experiencing the 2' eXPerience. I found an awesome list of keyboard shortcuts for the MCE UI here. Enjoy MCE'ing 3月8日 Google Inside picsEverybody must have seen pics of Microsoft office buildings and such, ever wonder what it looks like inside Google ? Check out some of the spy pics here. 2月21日 World's largest error messageCame across something interesting and hence thought of sharing it here. These two displays are one of the biggest displays at The Times Square in NYC.
  Mind you, Windows XP did not crash, its the application that malfunctioned and hence Windows error reporting is trying to report the error. Read the full article here |
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