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Search By Tandy Trower  | Monday, March 8, 2010 at 11:41 pm The Secret Origin of Windows  A quarter century ago, Windo ws wa sn't everywhere. In fact, some were doubtful it would ever ship at all. And Tandy Trower was there.  Few people understand Microsoft better than Tandy Trower, who worked at the company from 1981-2009. Trower was the product manager who ulti mately shipped Wi ndows 1 .0, an endeavor that so me advised him was a  path tow ard a rui ned caree r. Four product managers had already tried and  fail ed to ship Wi ndows before him, and he initially thought that he w as being assigned an i mpossible task. In this follow-up to yesterday’s story on the  future of Windows , Trower recounts the inside story of his experience in transforming Windows from vaporware into a product that has left an unmi stakable imprin t on the world, 25 years afte r it was first released. Thanks to GUIdebook for letting us borrow many of the Win dows images in this story. –David Worthington  Microsoft staffers talk MS-DOS 2.0 with the editors of PC World in late 1982 or early 1983. Win dows 1 .0 wouldn’t ship for al most anothe r two years. From left: Microsoft’s Chris Larson, PC World’s Steve Cook, Bill Gates, Tandy Trow er, and founding PC World editor Andrew Fluegelman. In the late fall of 1984, I was just past three years in my employment with Microsoft. Considering the revolving doors in Silicon Valley at that time, I already had met or exceeded the typical time of employment with a high-tech company. Ov er t hat time I already had established a goo d track r ecord, having Now on Technologizer... Hist ory Needs Pi r acy 7 P C Buil din g T ip s My Fav or ite PC, th e iPad T he F irst M icr opro ce ssor Trending on Technolo gizer  At ari Oddities The W indows 8 Logo Defines M icrosoft's Future Game Boy Oddities Technologizer  on Facebook Follow us a t T wit te r Follow us at Google+ F ollo w us a t F ac ebook Cont ac t A bo ut Technologizer  & Harry In partnership with iPad iPhone Smart phones A pple W indows Fac ebook Google A ndroid M ore Ways to Get Us... RSS Feed | Free E-Mail Newsletter   Add to: Google | Yahoo | More Twitter: Harry|  All Technologizer  Join Our Facebook Page Could not retrieve id for t he specified page. Please verify converted by Web2PDFConvert.com

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By Tandy Trower | Monday March 8 2010 at 1141 pm

The Secret Origin of Windows A quarter century ago Windows wasnt everywhere In fact some weredoubtful it would ever ship at all And Tandy Trower was there

Few people understand Microsoft better than Tandy Trower who worked at

the company from 1981-2009 Trower was the product manager who

ultimately shipped Windows 1 0 an endeavor that some advised him was a

path tow ard a ruined career Four product managers had already tried and

failed to ship Windows before him and he initially thought that he was being

assigned an i mpossible task In this follow-up to yesterdayrsquos story on the

future of Windows Trower recounts the inside story of his experience in

transforming Windows from vaporware into a product that has left an

unmistakable imprint on the world 25 years after it was first released

Thanks to GUIdebook for letting us borrow many of the Windows images in

this story

ndashDavid Worthington

Microsoft staffers talk MS-DOS 20 with the editors of PC World in late 1982or early 1983 Windows 1 0 wouldnrsquot ship for almost another two years From

left Microsoftrsquos Chris Larson PC Worldrsquos Steve Cook Bill Gates Tandy

Trower and founding PC World editor Andrew Fluegelman

In the late fall of 1984 I was just past three years in my employment with

Microsoft Considering the revolving doors in Silicon Valley at that time I

already had met or exceeded the typical time of employment with a high-tech

company Over that time I already had established a good track record having

rsquo

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Bill Gates made it quiteclear that he was not happy

Windows was developing areputation for career death

successfully introduced many versions including the so-called GW-BASIC which

was licensed to PC clone vendors various BASIC compilers and a BASIC

interpreter and compiler for the Apple Macintosh As a result I had been given

the overall responsibility for managingMicrosoftrsquos programming languages

which included FORTRAN Pascal COBOL 8086 Macro Assembler and its first

C compiler for MS-DOS It was at this point that things took a significant turn

I had just gone through one of those infamous grueling project reviews with Bill

Gates who was known for his ability to cover all details related to product

strategy not only those on the technical side Borlandrsquos Turbo Pascal had just

come out seemed to be taking the market by storm and looked like a possible

competitor to Microsoft BASIC as the language that was shipped with every PC

While Microsoft had its own version of Pascal it had been groomed as a

professional developerrsquos tool and in fact was the core language Microsoft wrote

many of its own software products in before it was displaced by C

At $50 for the Borland product vs the

Microsoft $400 compiler it was a bit

like comparing a VW to a Porsche But

while T urbo Pascal was lighter weight

for serious development it was almost as quick for programming and debugging

as Microsoftrsquos BASIC interpreters And Pascal was the programming language

that most computer science students most typically studied The new Borland

product would require ser ious strategy revisions to the existing plans to port

Microsoft Pascal to a new compiler architecture But it also required thinking

about how to address this with our BASIC products Could a Turbo BASIC be on

the horizon In any case Gates made it quite clear that he was not happy

Returning to my office I was somewhat devastated In the days that followed as

I tried to come up with a revised strategy I was uncertain about whether I

should even continue in this role I had come to Microsoft from a consumer

computer company where I had primarily managed a variety of entertainment

and education software Even in my early career at Microsoft I had managed its

early PC games like Flight Simulator Decathlon and Typing Tutor And I had

loved managing BASIC not just because it was the product the company was

best known for but because BASIC helped me get my own start in the PC

business and I believed it allowed a wide audience to tap into the power of PCs

Now my job had evolved to where I was managing a family of products mostly

for a highly technical audience So I spoke with Steve Ballmer then my direct

manager and head of Microsoftrsquos product marketing group and suggested that

perhaps I was the wrong person for this job

A couple of weeks later Ballmer called me in and proposed that I transfer over

to manage Windows Sounds like a plum job right Well that wasnrsquot so obvious

at the time Windows had been announced the previous year with much fanfare

and support from most of the ex isting PC vendors However by the time of my

discussion with Steve Windows still had not shipped within the promised

timeframe and was starting to earn the reputation of being ldquovaporwarerdquo In fact

Ballmer had just returned from what we internally referred to as the ldquomea

culpardquo tour to personally apologize to analysts and press for the product not

having shipped on time and to reinforce Microsoftrsquos definite plans to complete it

soon

Further Microsoftrsquos strategy to get

IBM to license Windows had failed

IBM had rejected Windows in favor of

its own character-based DOS

application windowing product called TopView With IBM still the dominant PC

seller Microsoft would have to market Windows directly to IBM PC users I t

would be the first t ime the company sold an OS level product directly to end-

users (unless you count the Apple SoftCard a hardware card that enabled Apple

II users to run CPM-80 applications on their Apple IIs which I had also

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Windows needed to befinished not furthertweaked in any way that jeopardized getting it outthat summer withoutfurther embarrassment

previously managed) Since I had been the product manager that had the most

experience with marketing technically oriented products through retail channels

(rather licensed to PC v endors) Ballmer thought the job might be a good fit In

addition he pointed out that since Windows was intended to expand the appeal

of PC through its easier-to-use graphical user interface it should appeal to my

more end-user product experience and interests

At that point Windows was no longer considered the

companyrsquos star project as it had become a bit of an

embarrassment Even internally there were doubtsamong some in the company that Windows would ever

ship Also because Ballmer had already burned though

four product managers to try to get therendashpeople who

now had been either reassigned or were no longer at

Microsoftndashthe product was developing a reputat ion for

career death Apparently prior to offering the job to me

Ballmer had tried to persuade Rob Glaser already

recognized as a bright up-and coming talent to take the position But Glaser

turned him down When Glaser heard that I was offered the position he even

stopped by to counsel might that it would be a bad career move

This made me think that perhaps the offer to me was a ploy by Gates andBallmer to fire me because of their disappointment in dealing with Turbo Pascal

and my suggestion that perhaps my assignment to managing programming

languages was a poor choice on their part It seemed clever give me a task that

no one else had succeeded with let me fail as well and they would have not only

a scapegoat but easy grounds to terminate me So I confronted Gates and

Ballmer about my theory After their somewhat raucous laughter they regained

their composure and assured me that the offer was sincere and that they had

confidence in my potential success

So in January of 1985 I transitioned over the Windows team but even as I

assumed my new role I discovered that the Windows development architect

and manager Scott McGregor a former Xerox PARC engineer has justresigned Ballmer himself took up McGregorrsquos role as the development lead in

addition to his other responsibilities

Shaping Up WindowsMy first task was to assess of what was done and what was left to be done as

well as come up with a marketing strategy of how to sell an OS add-on to end

users a task that was a significant challenge because no Windows applications

existed at that time How to sell a new application interface without any

applications

I discovered that while the three core functional components of Windows

(Kernelndashmemory management Userndashwindowing and controls and GDIndashdevice

rendering) were mostly in place there was still a substantial amount of work to

be done and Ballmer had given me only six months to finalize the product and

get out the door This didnrsquot bother too much since I had currently held the

record for getting a product from definition to market in the shortest time

There wasnrsquot much time to make

changes Ballmer was emphatic not to

redefine what was already done even

though McGregor had changed

Windows from its original overlapping

windows design to a tiled windows

model and every windowing system

out there or under dev elopment

featured overlapping windows There also was not enough time to change the

Windows system font displayed in title bars and control labels from a fixed

width typeface to a proportional typeface which made the overall look a bit

clunky especially in comparison to the newly announced Macintosh interface

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Steversquos promise was that in the next release I would get creative freedom to

make any significant changes to the productrsquos interface I could add some

functionality to make it more appealing to end-users but overall the product

needed to be finished not further tweaked in any way that jeopardized getting it

out that summer without further embarrassment

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middot 101 weeks ago

However by the time of my discussion with Steve Windows still had not shipped within thepromised timeframe and was starting to earn the reputation of being ldquovaporwarerdquo

httpwwwgrammarbookcompunctuationquotesasp

Periods and commas always go inside quotation marks even inside single quotes

Examples The sign changed from Walk to Dont Walk to Walk again within 30 seconds

She said Hurry up

She said He said Hurry up

Reply3 replies middot active 64 weeks ago

middot 101 weeks ago

icyfog fixed

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middot 101 weeks ago

Heres a little more bio on Tandy

Tandy Trower a former 28 year employee of Microsoft resigned in November 2009 to pursue anew venture to create software and services to support robotic solutions that can enhance thelives of an increasing worldwide population that require assistive care In his last 6 years atMicrosoft Trower founded the companys current robotics initiative successfully launching aseries of development toolkits to help further catalyze the development of applications for theemerging personal robotics market

Reply1 reply middot active 104992 weeks ago

middot 101 weeks ago

A wonderful CYA article that totally omits the known thefts and copying done by MS Thisattempt to rewrite history and facts for a company convicted of being an illegal monopoly EPICFAIL

Reply2 replies middot active 61 weeks ago

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middot 101 weeks ago

Don

Given the history of Silicon Valley business (I was there during the formative years and I knowwhat Im talking about) Microsoft while there are plenty of things I can say about it was notthe only one doing the thieving or the copying Bomb throwing comments are useless

Reply1 reply middot active 6 weeks ago

middot 101 weeks ago

-- Periods and commas always go inside quotation marks

Youll find that this is a style issue and the British style is to put them outside the quoteswhere they make much more sense

Reply

middot 101 weeks ago

Interesting article about the history and experience at microsoft Im a PC user from thebegining and worked with windows since the begining starting with dos and windows 31 It isinteresting to see how far PC has come and become integral part of our daily lives with hotmailoffice xbox windows mobile Im even more excited about the future of PC user in light of thetechnologies microsoft is bringing like project natal windows phone 7 series and media center

Reply

middot 101 weeks ago

Great write up takes me back in time Thanks

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middot 101 weeks ago

IcyFog you are correct when it comes to usage in the United States but you might not becorrect in many other English-Speaking countries

httpgrammarccccommnetedugrammarmarksquot

It seems that UK and US English differs in more ways than common idioms and certain

spelling differences

Reply

middot 101 weeks ago

ndash Periods and commas always go inside quotation marks

Putting the periods and commas outside the quotation marks is usually referred to as either British style or logical punctiation Look it up -)

Reply

middot 101 weeks ago

Punctuation inside the quotation marks is a stupid rule English is a living language and usintelligent people are doing away with that rule slowely but surely

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middot 101 weeks ago

Regarding the unnecessarily assertive punctuation complaint - have a look athttpcatborgjargonhtmlwriting-stylehtml

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middot 101 weeks ago

Its quite interesting how Windows started out

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middot 101 weeks ago

However after many months of attempting to make the joint development process work theprocess-driven IBM style that measured success on the number of lines of code rather than thequality or performance of that code and Microsoftrsquos more developer driven ldquocowboyrdquo style justwasnrsquot workin

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So is Mr Tandy trying to state that Microsoft and its cowboy style produced much better quality and performance than IBM Give me a break

OS2 was a far superior product to Windows from a technical standpoint Sure OS2 did crashfrom time to time but not nearly as often as Windows did And OS2 could run rings aroundWindows in terms of performance doing preemptive multitasking when Windows still couldonly do cooperative multitasking at best OS2 had a robust object model which is still superior to Windows Ever see the animated Windows flashlight when a file is moved That never happened with OS2 because of its object model

OS2 died because IBM could not sell it Windows flourished because of Microsoftsexcellence in business practices like getting Windows pre-installed on every PC sold to theexclusion of all competitive OSes

See the history of Microsofts technical aspects from products like Internet Explorer MSNMicrosoft Bob Live Search and PocketPC Microsoft typically has won due to its excellencein business not technical superiority

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middot 101 weeks ago

If you think early Windows stole from MacIntosh and MITs X-Windows that is nothingcompared to the outright code theft of Windows NT kernel from DEC VMS operating systemYES SIR Windows 7 is still based on this same stolen Windows NT code base THIS ISFACT

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middot 101 weeks ago

George - You are confusing OS2 20 and later versions with the 1x versions of OS2Microsoft was long gone from OS2 development by the time 20 came out and 13 was largelya totally different beast

Also while youre on your high horse you might think about the fact that Windows and OS2had different design requirements Windows was required to work with 8 bit CPUs while OS2could largely throw away backwards compatibility and start with 16 bit CPUs Later versions of Windows had to carry that old DOS compatibility while OS2 chose the more bloated approachof running DOS in a virtual machine which resulted in a minimum memory requirement of 4MBat a time when 4MB cost over $1000

Make no mistake part of the reason OS2 never succeeded was because it was far too bloatedfor the average PC of the time and by the time PCs caught up Windows caught up as well

Reply1 reply middot active 16 weeks ago

middot 101 weeks ago

Andy - Please dont confuse fact with allegation While its true that Microsoft and DECsettled a lawsuit there was no admission of what you refer to Certainly NT was heavilyinfluenced by Dave Cutlers previous work at DEC but there is nothing other than circumstantialevidence to suggest that there was any stolen code

You might as well claim that Netscape stole Mosaic since both were written by the samepeople

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middot 101 weeks ago

I owned Windows286 10 Bought it retail at MicroCenter in Marietta GA As I recall I needed itto play a game I recall not being impressed

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middot 101 weeks ago

Andys comment is about 995 right on NT being stolen I wasnt at DECWest when thishappened but I worked there right out of college and talked with the old-timers Dave Cutler was pissed that project Mica got canceled so he went down the road (literally) to Microsoft tosell what hed been working on Lawsuits were fired off once DECies saw how similar some of the kernel and subsystem design was when working on the DEC Alpha port of NT and reportedit to their PHBs Read some history for yourself here

httpwwwroughlydraftedcom20090730readers-because while they may not have leftDEC copyrights in the NT source there were some line-for-line reproduction of VMSimplementation

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Its nice to look back and recall the days when todays biggest companies started I dont knowif theres something in common with Google Microsoft Apple in the way they start If there is Ithink its innovation that lead them to where they are now

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middot 101 weeks ago

George - no hes not trying to state that at all - youre trying to imply it to fit your anti-MSscreed he was comparing the different programming paradigms each company used notmaking any comment about the quality of code each produced

he also never compared os2 and windows 2 nor made claims about which was better sowhats the point of you comparing them hes simply giving an insider perspective on thedevelopment of windows do we need to turn it into yet another holy OS war

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middot 101 weeks ago

As so many are pointing out punctuation mistakes they seem to be fully ignoring other egregious language errors

From featured excerpt Windows needed to be finished not further tweaked in anyway that jeopardized getting it out that summer without further embarrassment

A) Run-on sentence

B) Incorrect usage of anyway it should be the two-word form any way

I remember some specialized flatbed-scanner proggies based on Win 1x Seems like Vistawas just Windows 20 all over again almost but not quite

DW Great piece BTW The writing here just needs some serious CE love

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Bill Gates made it quiteclear that he was not happy

Windows was developing areputation for career death

successfully introduced many versions including the so-called GW-BASIC which

was licensed to PC clone vendors various BASIC compilers and a BASIC

interpreter and compiler for the Apple Macintosh As a result I had been given

the overall responsibility for managingMicrosoftrsquos programming languages

which included FORTRAN Pascal COBOL 8086 Macro Assembler and its first

C compiler for MS-DOS It was at this point that things took a significant turn

I had just gone through one of those infamous grueling project reviews with Bill

Gates who was known for his ability to cover all details related to product

strategy not only those on the technical side Borlandrsquos Turbo Pascal had just

come out seemed to be taking the market by storm and looked like a possible

competitor to Microsoft BASIC as the language that was shipped with every PC

While Microsoft had its own version of Pascal it had been groomed as a

professional developerrsquos tool and in fact was the core language Microsoft wrote

many of its own software products in before it was displaced by C

At $50 for the Borland product vs the

Microsoft $400 compiler it was a bit

like comparing a VW to a Porsche But

while T urbo Pascal was lighter weight

for serious development it was almost as quick for programming and debugging

as Microsoftrsquos BASIC interpreters And Pascal was the programming language

that most computer science students most typically studied The new Borland

product would require ser ious strategy revisions to the existing plans to port

Microsoft Pascal to a new compiler architecture But it also required thinking

about how to address this with our BASIC products Could a Turbo BASIC be on

the horizon In any case Gates made it quite clear that he was not happy

Returning to my office I was somewhat devastated In the days that followed as

I tried to come up with a revised strategy I was uncertain about whether I

should even continue in this role I had come to Microsoft from a consumer

computer company where I had primarily managed a variety of entertainment

and education software Even in my early career at Microsoft I had managed its

early PC games like Flight Simulator Decathlon and Typing Tutor And I had

loved managing BASIC not just because it was the product the company was

best known for but because BASIC helped me get my own start in the PC

business and I believed it allowed a wide audience to tap into the power of PCs

Now my job had evolved to where I was managing a family of products mostly

for a highly technical audience So I spoke with Steve Ballmer then my direct

manager and head of Microsoftrsquos product marketing group and suggested that

perhaps I was the wrong person for this job

A couple of weeks later Ballmer called me in and proposed that I transfer over

to manage Windows Sounds like a plum job right Well that wasnrsquot so obvious

at the time Windows had been announced the previous year with much fanfare

and support from most of the ex isting PC vendors However by the time of my

discussion with Steve Windows still had not shipped within the promised

timeframe and was starting to earn the reputation of being ldquovaporwarerdquo In fact

Ballmer had just returned from what we internally referred to as the ldquomea

culpardquo tour to personally apologize to analysts and press for the product not

having shipped on time and to reinforce Microsoftrsquos definite plans to complete it

soon

Further Microsoftrsquos strategy to get

IBM to license Windows had failed

IBM had rejected Windows in favor of

its own character-based DOS

application windowing product called TopView With IBM still the dominant PC

seller Microsoft would have to market Windows directly to IBM PC users I t

would be the first t ime the company sold an OS level product directly to end-

users (unless you count the Apple SoftCard a hardware card that enabled Apple

II users to run CPM-80 applications on their Apple IIs which I had also

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Windows needed to befinished not furthertweaked in any way that jeopardized getting it outthat summer withoutfurther embarrassment

previously managed) Since I had been the product manager that had the most

experience with marketing technically oriented products through retail channels

(rather licensed to PC v endors) Ballmer thought the job might be a good fit In

addition he pointed out that since Windows was intended to expand the appeal

of PC through its easier-to-use graphical user interface it should appeal to my

more end-user product experience and interests

At that point Windows was no longer considered the

companyrsquos star project as it had become a bit of an

embarrassment Even internally there were doubtsamong some in the company that Windows would ever

ship Also because Ballmer had already burned though

four product managers to try to get therendashpeople who

now had been either reassigned or were no longer at

Microsoftndashthe product was developing a reputat ion for

career death Apparently prior to offering the job to me

Ballmer had tried to persuade Rob Glaser already

recognized as a bright up-and coming talent to take the position But Glaser

turned him down When Glaser heard that I was offered the position he even

stopped by to counsel might that it would be a bad career move

This made me think that perhaps the offer to me was a ploy by Gates andBallmer to fire me because of their disappointment in dealing with Turbo Pascal

and my suggestion that perhaps my assignment to managing programming

languages was a poor choice on their part It seemed clever give me a task that

no one else had succeeded with let me fail as well and they would have not only

a scapegoat but easy grounds to terminate me So I confronted Gates and

Ballmer about my theory After their somewhat raucous laughter they regained

their composure and assured me that the offer was sincere and that they had

confidence in my potential success

So in January of 1985 I transitioned over the Windows team but even as I

assumed my new role I discovered that the Windows development architect

and manager Scott McGregor a former Xerox PARC engineer has justresigned Ballmer himself took up McGregorrsquos role as the development lead in

addition to his other responsibilities

Shaping Up WindowsMy first task was to assess of what was done and what was left to be done as

well as come up with a marketing strategy of how to sell an OS add-on to end

users a task that was a significant challenge because no Windows applications

existed at that time How to sell a new application interface without any

applications

I discovered that while the three core functional components of Windows

(Kernelndashmemory management Userndashwindowing and controls and GDIndashdevice

rendering) were mostly in place there was still a substantial amount of work to

be done and Ballmer had given me only six months to finalize the product and

get out the door This didnrsquot bother too much since I had currently held the

record for getting a product from definition to market in the shortest time

There wasnrsquot much time to make

changes Ballmer was emphatic not to

redefine what was already done even

though McGregor had changed

Windows from its original overlapping

windows design to a tiled windows

model and every windowing system

out there or under dev elopment

featured overlapping windows There also was not enough time to change the

Windows system font displayed in title bars and control labels from a fixed

width typeface to a proportional typeface which made the overall look a bit

clunky especially in comparison to the newly announced Macintosh interface

15 BreakthroughProducts That Went

Absolutely Nowhere

The 25 Most NotableQuotes in Tech History

How 1940s Whiskey Ads Predicted theFuture

The Great OperatingSystem Games

The Weird SecretOrigin of TechsFavorite Insult

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Don 0

Steversquos promise was that in the next release I would get creative freedom to

make any significant changes to the productrsquos interface I could add some

functionality to make it more appealing to end-users but overall the product

needed to be finished not further tweaked in any way that jeopardized getting it

out that summer without further embarrassment

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middot 101 weeks ago

However by the time of my discussion with Steve Windows still had not shipped within thepromised timeframe and was starting to earn the reputation of being ldquovaporwarerdquo

httpwwwgrammarbookcompunctuationquotesasp

Periods and commas always go inside quotation marks even inside single quotes

Examples The sign changed from Walk to Dont Walk to Walk again within 30 seconds

She said Hurry up

She said He said Hurry up

Reply3 replies middot active 64 weeks ago

middot 101 weeks ago

icyfog fixed

Reply

middot 101 weeks ago

Heres a little more bio on Tandy

Tandy Trower a former 28 year employee of Microsoft resigned in November 2009 to pursue anew venture to create software and services to support robotic solutions that can enhance thelives of an increasing worldwide population that require assistive care In his last 6 years atMicrosoft Trower founded the companys current robotics initiative successfully launching aseries of development toolkits to help further catalyze the development of applications for theemerging personal robotics market

Reply1 reply middot active 104992 weeks ago

middot 101 weeks ago

A wonderful CYA article that totally omits the known thefts and copying done by MS Thisattempt to rewrite history and facts for a company convicted of being an illegal monopoly EPICFAIL

Reply2 replies middot active 61 weeks ago

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Don

Given the history of Silicon Valley business (I was there during the formative years and I knowwhat Im talking about) Microsoft while there are plenty of things I can say about it was notthe only one doing the thieving or the copying Bomb throwing comments are useless

Reply1 reply middot active 6 weeks ago

middot 101 weeks ago

-- Periods and commas always go inside quotation marks

Youll find that this is a style issue and the British style is to put them outside the quoteswhere they make much more sense

Reply

middot 101 weeks ago

Interesting article about the history and experience at microsoft Im a PC user from thebegining and worked with windows since the begining starting with dos and windows 31 It isinteresting to see how far PC has come and become integral part of our daily lives with hotmailoffice xbox windows mobile Im even more excited about the future of PC user in light of thetechnologies microsoft is bringing like project natal windows phone 7 series and media center

Reply

middot 101 weeks ago

Great write up takes me back in time Thanks

Reply

middot 101 weeks ago

IcyFog you are correct when it comes to usage in the United States but you might not becorrect in many other English-Speaking countries

httpgrammarccccommnetedugrammarmarksquot

It seems that UK and US English differs in more ways than common idioms and certain

spelling differences

Reply

middot 101 weeks ago

ndash Periods and commas always go inside quotation marks

Putting the periods and commas outside the quotation marks is usually referred to as either British style or logical punctiation Look it up -)

Reply

middot 101 weeks ago

Punctuation inside the quotation marks is a stupid rule English is a living language and usintelligent people are doing away with that rule slowely but surely

Reply

middot 101 weeks ago

Regarding the unnecessarily assertive punctuation complaint - have a look athttpcatborgjargonhtmlwriting-stylehtml

Reply

middot 101 weeks ago

Its quite interesting how Windows started out

Reply

middot 101 weeks ago

However after many months of attempting to make the joint development process work theprocess-driven IBM style that measured success on the number of lines of code rather than thequality or performance of that code and Microsoftrsquos more developer driven ldquocowboyrdquo style justwasnrsquot workin

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So is Mr Tandy trying to state that Microsoft and its cowboy style produced much better quality and performance than IBM Give me a break

OS2 was a far superior product to Windows from a technical standpoint Sure OS2 did crashfrom time to time but not nearly as often as Windows did And OS2 could run rings aroundWindows in terms of performance doing preemptive multitasking when Windows still couldonly do cooperative multitasking at best OS2 had a robust object model which is still superior to Windows Ever see the animated Windows flashlight when a file is moved That never happened with OS2 because of its object model

OS2 died because IBM could not sell it Windows flourished because of Microsoftsexcellence in business practices like getting Windows pre-installed on every PC sold to theexclusion of all competitive OSes

See the history of Microsofts technical aspects from products like Internet Explorer MSNMicrosoft Bob Live Search and PocketPC Microsoft typically has won due to its excellencein business not technical superiority

Reply

middot 101 weeks ago

If you think early Windows stole from MacIntosh and MITs X-Windows that is nothingcompared to the outright code theft of Windows NT kernel from DEC VMS operating systemYES SIR Windows 7 is still based on this same stolen Windows NT code base THIS ISFACT

Reply

middot 101 weeks ago

George - You are confusing OS2 20 and later versions with the 1x versions of OS2Microsoft was long gone from OS2 development by the time 20 came out and 13 was largelya totally different beast

Also while youre on your high horse you might think about the fact that Windows and OS2had different design requirements Windows was required to work with 8 bit CPUs while OS2could largely throw away backwards compatibility and start with 16 bit CPUs Later versions of Windows had to carry that old DOS compatibility while OS2 chose the more bloated approachof running DOS in a virtual machine which resulted in a minimum memory requirement of 4MBat a time when 4MB cost over $1000

Make no mistake part of the reason OS2 never succeeded was because it was far too bloatedfor the average PC of the time and by the time PCs caught up Windows caught up as well

Reply1 reply middot active 16 weeks ago

middot 101 weeks ago

Andy - Please dont confuse fact with allegation While its true that Microsoft and DECsettled a lawsuit there was no admission of what you refer to Certainly NT was heavilyinfluenced by Dave Cutlers previous work at DEC but there is nothing other than circumstantialevidence to suggest that there was any stolen code

You might as well claim that Netscape stole Mosaic since both were written by the samepeople

Reply

middot 101 weeks ago

I owned Windows286 10 Bought it retail at MicroCenter in Marietta GA As I recall I needed itto play a game I recall not being impressed

Reply

middot 101 weeks ago

Andys comment is about 995 right on NT being stolen I wasnt at DECWest when thishappened but I worked there right out of college and talked with the old-timers Dave Cutler was pissed that project Mica got canceled so he went down the road (literally) to Microsoft tosell what hed been working on Lawsuits were fired off once DECies saw how similar some of the kernel and subsystem design was when working on the DEC Alpha port of NT and reportedit to their PHBs Read some history for yourself here

httpwwwroughlydraftedcom20090730readers-because while they may not have leftDEC copyrights in the NT source there were some line-for-line reproduction of VMSimplementation

Reply

middot 101 weeks ago

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Its nice to look back and recall the days when todays biggest companies started I dont knowif theres something in common with Google Microsoft Apple in the way they start If there is Ithink its innovation that lead them to where they are now

Reply

middot 101 weeks ago

George - no hes not trying to state that at all - youre trying to imply it to fit your anti-MSscreed he was comparing the different programming paradigms each company used notmaking any comment about the quality of code each produced

he also never compared os2 and windows 2 nor made claims about which was better sowhats the point of you comparing them hes simply giving an insider perspective on thedevelopment of windows do we need to turn it into yet another holy OS war

Reply

middot 101 weeks ago

As so many are pointing out punctuation mistakes they seem to be fully ignoring other egregious language errors

From featured excerpt Windows needed to be finished not further tweaked in anyway that jeopardized getting it out that summer without further embarrassment

A) Run-on sentence

B) Incorrect usage of anyway it should be the two-word form any way

I remember some specialized flatbed-scanner proggies based on Win 1x Seems like Vistawas just Windows 20 all over again almost but not quite

DW Great piece BTW The writing here just needs some serious CE love

Reply

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Windows needed to befinished not furthertweaked in any way that jeopardized getting it outthat summer withoutfurther embarrassment

previously managed) Since I had been the product manager that had the most

experience with marketing technically oriented products through retail channels

(rather licensed to PC v endors) Ballmer thought the job might be a good fit In

addition he pointed out that since Windows was intended to expand the appeal

of PC through its easier-to-use graphical user interface it should appeal to my

more end-user product experience and interests

At that point Windows was no longer considered the

companyrsquos star project as it had become a bit of an

embarrassment Even internally there were doubtsamong some in the company that Windows would ever

ship Also because Ballmer had already burned though

four product managers to try to get therendashpeople who

now had been either reassigned or were no longer at

Microsoftndashthe product was developing a reputat ion for

career death Apparently prior to offering the job to me

Ballmer had tried to persuade Rob Glaser already

recognized as a bright up-and coming talent to take the position But Glaser

turned him down When Glaser heard that I was offered the position he even

stopped by to counsel might that it would be a bad career move

This made me think that perhaps the offer to me was a ploy by Gates andBallmer to fire me because of their disappointment in dealing with Turbo Pascal

and my suggestion that perhaps my assignment to managing programming

languages was a poor choice on their part It seemed clever give me a task that

no one else had succeeded with let me fail as well and they would have not only

a scapegoat but easy grounds to terminate me So I confronted Gates and

Ballmer about my theory After their somewhat raucous laughter they regained

their composure and assured me that the offer was sincere and that they had

confidence in my potential success

So in January of 1985 I transitioned over the Windows team but even as I

assumed my new role I discovered that the Windows development architect

and manager Scott McGregor a former Xerox PARC engineer has justresigned Ballmer himself took up McGregorrsquos role as the development lead in

addition to his other responsibilities

Shaping Up WindowsMy first task was to assess of what was done and what was left to be done as

well as come up with a marketing strategy of how to sell an OS add-on to end

users a task that was a significant challenge because no Windows applications

existed at that time How to sell a new application interface without any

applications

I discovered that while the three core functional components of Windows

(Kernelndashmemory management Userndashwindowing and controls and GDIndashdevice

rendering) were mostly in place there was still a substantial amount of work to

be done and Ballmer had given me only six months to finalize the product and

get out the door This didnrsquot bother too much since I had currently held the

record for getting a product from definition to market in the shortest time

There wasnrsquot much time to make

changes Ballmer was emphatic not to

redefine what was already done even

though McGregor had changed

Windows from its original overlapping

windows design to a tiled windows

model and every windowing system

out there or under dev elopment

featured overlapping windows There also was not enough time to change the

Windows system font displayed in title bars and control labels from a fixed

width typeface to a proportional typeface which made the overall look a bit

clunky especially in comparison to the newly announced Macintosh interface

15 BreakthroughProducts That Went

Absolutely Nowhere

The 25 Most NotableQuotes in Tech History

How 1940s Whiskey Ads Predicted theFuture

The Great OperatingSystem Games

The Weird SecretOrigin of TechsFavorite Insult

converted by Web2PDFConvertcom

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IcyFog +1

David Worthington 0

David Worthington 0

Don 0

Steversquos promise was that in the next release I would get creative freedom to

make any significant changes to the productrsquos interface I could add some

functionality to make it more appealing to end-users but overall the product

needed to be finished not further tweaked in any way that jeopardized getting it

out that summer without further embarrassment

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The Secret Origin of Windows - Actualiteacutes -[] The Secret Origin of Windows Posted mars 09 2010 1055 by Laurent MILTGEN-DELINCHAMP Filed under windows []

[TL] The Secret Origin of Windows - Overclocknet - Overclockingnet[] that has left an unmistakable imprint on the world 25 years after it was first released Read[]

Khanov blog raquo Blog Archive raquo Microsoft ndash povijest[] sam naišao na ovaj članak pa bih ga želio podijeliti s vama Ukoliko imate nekoliko minutaslobodnog vremena mislim da se []

middot 101 weeks ago

However by the time of my discussion with Steve Windows still had not shipped within thepromised timeframe and was starting to earn the reputation of being ldquovaporwarerdquo

httpwwwgrammarbookcompunctuationquotesasp

Periods and commas always go inside quotation marks even inside single quotes

Examples The sign changed from Walk to Dont Walk to Walk again within 30 seconds

She said Hurry up

She said He said Hurry up

Reply3 replies middot active 64 weeks ago

middot 101 weeks ago

icyfog fixed

Reply

middot 101 weeks ago

Heres a little more bio on Tandy

Tandy Trower a former 28 year employee of Microsoft resigned in November 2009 to pursue anew venture to create software and services to support robotic solutions that can enhance thelives of an increasing worldwide population that require assistive care In his last 6 years atMicrosoft Trower founded the companys current robotics initiative successfully launching aseries of development toolkits to help further catalyze the development of applications for theemerging personal robotics market

Reply1 reply middot active 104992 weeks ago

middot 101 weeks ago

A wonderful CYA article that totally omits the known thefts and copying done by MS Thisattempt to rewrite history and facts for a company convicted of being an illegal monopoly EPICFAIL

Reply2 replies middot active 61 weeks ago

converted by Web2PDFConvertcom

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George +1

middot 101 weeks ago

Don

Given the history of Silicon Valley business (I was there during the formative years and I knowwhat Im talking about) Microsoft while there are plenty of things I can say about it was notthe only one doing the thieving or the copying Bomb throwing comments are useless

Reply1 reply middot active 6 weeks ago

middot 101 weeks ago

-- Periods and commas always go inside quotation marks

Youll find that this is a style issue and the British style is to put them outside the quoteswhere they make much more sense

Reply

middot 101 weeks ago

Interesting article about the history and experience at microsoft Im a PC user from thebegining and worked with windows since the begining starting with dos and windows 31 It isinteresting to see how far PC has come and become integral part of our daily lives with hotmailoffice xbox windows mobile Im even more excited about the future of PC user in light of thetechnologies microsoft is bringing like project natal windows phone 7 series and media center

Reply

middot 101 weeks ago

Great write up takes me back in time Thanks

Reply

middot 101 weeks ago

IcyFog you are correct when it comes to usage in the United States but you might not becorrect in many other English-Speaking countries

httpgrammarccccommnetedugrammarmarksquot

It seems that UK and US English differs in more ways than common idioms and certain

spelling differences

Reply

middot 101 weeks ago

ndash Periods and commas always go inside quotation marks

Putting the periods and commas outside the quotation marks is usually referred to as either British style or logical punctiation Look it up -)

Reply

middot 101 weeks ago

Punctuation inside the quotation marks is a stupid rule English is a living language and usintelligent people are doing away with that rule slowely but surely

Reply

middot 101 weeks ago

Regarding the unnecessarily assertive punctuation complaint - have a look athttpcatborgjargonhtmlwriting-stylehtml

Reply

middot 101 weeks ago

Its quite interesting how Windows started out

Reply

middot 101 weeks ago

However after many months of attempting to make the joint development process work theprocess-driven IBM style that measured success on the number of lines of code rather than thequality or performance of that code and Microsoftrsquos more developer driven ldquocowboyrdquo style justwasnrsquot workin

converted by Web2PDFConvertcom

822019 A Origem Secreta Do Windows

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Andy +1

Nobody Real +1

Nobody Real -1

Denver 0

1TimeDECGuy 0

IDM 0

So is Mr Tandy trying to state that Microsoft and its cowboy style produced much better quality and performance than IBM Give me a break

OS2 was a far superior product to Windows from a technical standpoint Sure OS2 did crashfrom time to time but not nearly as often as Windows did And OS2 could run rings aroundWindows in terms of performance doing preemptive multitasking when Windows still couldonly do cooperative multitasking at best OS2 had a robust object model which is still superior to Windows Ever see the animated Windows flashlight when a file is moved That never happened with OS2 because of its object model

OS2 died because IBM could not sell it Windows flourished because of Microsoftsexcellence in business practices like getting Windows pre-installed on every PC sold to theexclusion of all competitive OSes

See the history of Microsofts technical aspects from products like Internet Explorer MSNMicrosoft Bob Live Search and PocketPC Microsoft typically has won due to its excellencein business not technical superiority

Reply

middot 101 weeks ago

If you think early Windows stole from MacIntosh and MITs X-Windows that is nothingcompared to the outright code theft of Windows NT kernel from DEC VMS operating systemYES SIR Windows 7 is still based on this same stolen Windows NT code base THIS ISFACT

Reply

middot 101 weeks ago

George - You are confusing OS2 20 and later versions with the 1x versions of OS2Microsoft was long gone from OS2 development by the time 20 came out and 13 was largelya totally different beast

Also while youre on your high horse you might think about the fact that Windows and OS2had different design requirements Windows was required to work with 8 bit CPUs while OS2could largely throw away backwards compatibility and start with 16 bit CPUs Later versions of Windows had to carry that old DOS compatibility while OS2 chose the more bloated approachof running DOS in a virtual machine which resulted in a minimum memory requirement of 4MBat a time when 4MB cost over $1000

Make no mistake part of the reason OS2 never succeeded was because it was far too bloatedfor the average PC of the time and by the time PCs caught up Windows caught up as well

Reply1 reply middot active 16 weeks ago

middot 101 weeks ago

Andy - Please dont confuse fact with allegation While its true that Microsoft and DECsettled a lawsuit there was no admission of what you refer to Certainly NT was heavilyinfluenced by Dave Cutlers previous work at DEC but there is nothing other than circumstantialevidence to suggest that there was any stolen code

You might as well claim that Netscape stole Mosaic since both were written by the samepeople

Reply

middot 101 weeks ago

I owned Windows286 10 Bought it retail at MicroCenter in Marietta GA As I recall I needed itto play a game I recall not being impressed

Reply

middot 101 weeks ago

Andys comment is about 995 right on NT being stolen I wasnt at DECWest when thishappened but I worked there right out of college and talked with the old-timers Dave Cutler was pissed that project Mica got canceled so he went down the road (literally) to Microsoft tosell what hed been working on Lawsuits were fired off once DECies saw how similar some of the kernel and subsystem design was when working on the DEC Alpha port of NT and reportedit to their PHBs Read some history for yourself here

httpwwwroughlydraftedcom20090730readers-because while they may not have leftDEC copyrights in the NT source there were some line-for-line reproduction of VMSimplementation

Reply

middot 101 weeks ago

converted by Web2PDFConvertcom

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Duggeek 0

Enter text right here

Name Email Website (optional)

Submit Comment

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facebook

Displayed next to your comments Not displayed publicly If you have a website link to it here

Its nice to look back and recall the days when todays biggest companies started I dont knowif theres something in common with Google Microsoft Apple in the way they start If there is Ithink its innovation that lead them to where they are now

Reply

middot 101 weeks ago

George - no hes not trying to state that at all - youre trying to imply it to fit your anti-MSscreed he was comparing the different programming paradigms each company used notmaking any comment about the quality of code each produced

he also never compared os2 and windows 2 nor made claims about which was better sowhats the point of you comparing them hes simply giving an insider perspective on thedevelopment of windows do we need to turn it into yet another holy OS war

Reply

middot 101 weeks ago

As so many are pointing out punctuation mistakes they seem to be fully ignoring other egregious language errors

From featured excerpt Windows needed to be finished not further tweaked in anyway that jeopardized getting it out that summer without further embarrassment

A) Run-on sentence

B) Incorrect usage of anyway it should be the two-word form any way

I remember some specialized flatbed-scanner proggies based on Win 1x Seems like Vistawas just Windows 20 all over again almost but not quite

DW Great piece BTW The writing here just needs some serious CE love

Reply

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822019 A Origem Secreta Do Windows

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IcyFog +1

David Worthington 0

David Worthington 0

Don 0

Steversquos promise was that in the next release I would get creative freedom to

make any significant changes to the productrsquos interface I could add some

functionality to make it more appealing to end-users but overall the product

needed to be finished not further tweaked in any way that jeopardized getting it

out that summer without further embarrassment

1 2 3 NEXT PAGEraquo

123 Comments

Tweet 28 Like 561 likes Sign Up to see what your friends like

Read more Microsoft Microsoft Windows Nostalgia Operating Systems

Comments (127)Sort by Date Rating Last Activity

The Secret Origin of Windows - Actualiteacutes -[] The Secret Origin of Windows Posted mars 09 2010 1055 by Laurent MILTGEN-DELINCHAMP Filed under windows []

[TL] The Secret Origin of Windows - Overclocknet - Overclockingnet[] that has left an unmistakable imprint on the world 25 years after it was first released Read[]

Khanov blog raquo Blog Archive raquo Microsoft ndash povijest[] sam naišao na ovaj članak pa bih ga želio podijeliti s vama Ukoliko imate nekoliko minutaslobodnog vremena mislim da se []

middot 101 weeks ago

However by the time of my discussion with Steve Windows still had not shipped within thepromised timeframe and was starting to earn the reputation of being ldquovaporwarerdquo

httpwwwgrammarbookcompunctuationquotesasp

Periods and commas always go inside quotation marks even inside single quotes

Examples The sign changed from Walk to Dont Walk to Walk again within 30 seconds

She said Hurry up

She said He said Hurry up

Reply3 replies middot active 64 weeks ago

middot 101 weeks ago

icyfog fixed

Reply

middot 101 weeks ago

Heres a little more bio on Tandy

Tandy Trower a former 28 year employee of Microsoft resigned in November 2009 to pursue anew venture to create software and services to support robotic solutions that can enhance thelives of an increasing worldwide population that require assistive care In his last 6 years atMicrosoft Trower founded the companys current robotics initiative successfully launching aseries of development toolkits to help further catalyze the development of applications for theemerging personal robotics market

Reply1 reply middot active 104992 weeks ago

middot 101 weeks ago

A wonderful CYA article that totally omits the known thefts and copying done by MS Thisattempt to rewrite history and facts for a company convicted of being an illegal monopoly EPICFAIL

Reply2 replies middot active 61 weeks ago

converted by Web2PDFConvertcom

822019 A Origem Secreta Do Windows

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interval 0

gramie 0

ram 0

lordfu 0

Prootwadl 0

Andreas 0

nobody 0

Joy 0

Tech 0

George +1

middot 101 weeks ago

Don

Given the history of Silicon Valley business (I was there during the formative years and I knowwhat Im talking about) Microsoft while there are plenty of things I can say about it was notthe only one doing the thieving or the copying Bomb throwing comments are useless

Reply1 reply middot active 6 weeks ago

middot 101 weeks ago

-- Periods and commas always go inside quotation marks

Youll find that this is a style issue and the British style is to put them outside the quoteswhere they make much more sense

Reply

middot 101 weeks ago

Interesting article about the history and experience at microsoft Im a PC user from thebegining and worked with windows since the begining starting with dos and windows 31 It isinteresting to see how far PC has come and become integral part of our daily lives with hotmailoffice xbox windows mobile Im even more excited about the future of PC user in light of thetechnologies microsoft is bringing like project natal windows phone 7 series and media center

Reply

middot 101 weeks ago

Great write up takes me back in time Thanks

Reply

middot 101 weeks ago

IcyFog you are correct when it comes to usage in the United States but you might not becorrect in many other English-Speaking countries

httpgrammarccccommnetedugrammarmarksquot

It seems that UK and US English differs in more ways than common idioms and certain

spelling differences

Reply

middot 101 weeks ago

ndash Periods and commas always go inside quotation marks

Putting the periods and commas outside the quotation marks is usually referred to as either British style or logical punctiation Look it up -)

Reply

middot 101 weeks ago

Punctuation inside the quotation marks is a stupid rule English is a living language and usintelligent people are doing away with that rule slowely but surely

Reply

middot 101 weeks ago

Regarding the unnecessarily assertive punctuation complaint - have a look athttpcatborgjargonhtmlwriting-stylehtml

Reply

middot 101 weeks ago

Its quite interesting how Windows started out

Reply

middot 101 weeks ago

However after many months of attempting to make the joint development process work theprocess-driven IBM style that measured success on the number of lines of code rather than thequality or performance of that code and Microsoftrsquos more developer driven ldquocowboyrdquo style justwasnrsquot workin

converted by Web2PDFConvertcom

822019 A Origem Secreta Do Windows

httpslidepdfcomreaderfulla-origem-secreta-do-windows 67

Andy +1

Nobody Real +1

Nobody Real -1

Denver 0

1TimeDECGuy 0

IDM 0

So is Mr Tandy trying to state that Microsoft and its cowboy style produced much better quality and performance than IBM Give me a break

OS2 was a far superior product to Windows from a technical standpoint Sure OS2 did crashfrom time to time but not nearly as often as Windows did And OS2 could run rings aroundWindows in terms of performance doing preemptive multitasking when Windows still couldonly do cooperative multitasking at best OS2 had a robust object model which is still superior to Windows Ever see the animated Windows flashlight when a file is moved That never happened with OS2 because of its object model

OS2 died because IBM could not sell it Windows flourished because of Microsoftsexcellence in business practices like getting Windows pre-installed on every PC sold to theexclusion of all competitive OSes

See the history of Microsofts technical aspects from products like Internet Explorer MSNMicrosoft Bob Live Search and PocketPC Microsoft typically has won due to its excellencein business not technical superiority

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middot 101 weeks ago

If you think early Windows stole from MacIntosh and MITs X-Windows that is nothingcompared to the outright code theft of Windows NT kernel from DEC VMS operating systemYES SIR Windows 7 is still based on this same stolen Windows NT code base THIS ISFACT

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middot 101 weeks ago

George - You are confusing OS2 20 and later versions with the 1x versions of OS2Microsoft was long gone from OS2 development by the time 20 came out and 13 was largelya totally different beast

Also while youre on your high horse you might think about the fact that Windows and OS2had different design requirements Windows was required to work with 8 bit CPUs while OS2could largely throw away backwards compatibility and start with 16 bit CPUs Later versions of Windows had to carry that old DOS compatibility while OS2 chose the more bloated approachof running DOS in a virtual machine which resulted in a minimum memory requirement of 4MBat a time when 4MB cost over $1000

Make no mistake part of the reason OS2 never succeeded was because it was far too bloatedfor the average PC of the time and by the time PCs caught up Windows caught up as well

Reply1 reply middot active 16 weeks ago

middot 101 weeks ago

Andy - Please dont confuse fact with allegation While its true that Microsoft and DECsettled a lawsuit there was no admission of what you refer to Certainly NT was heavilyinfluenced by Dave Cutlers previous work at DEC but there is nothing other than circumstantialevidence to suggest that there was any stolen code

You might as well claim that Netscape stole Mosaic since both were written by the samepeople

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middot 101 weeks ago

I owned Windows286 10 Bought it retail at MicroCenter in Marietta GA As I recall I needed itto play a game I recall not being impressed

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middot 101 weeks ago

Andys comment is about 995 right on NT being stolen I wasnt at DECWest when thishappened but I worked there right out of college and talked with the old-timers Dave Cutler was pissed that project Mica got canceled so he went down the road (literally) to Microsoft tosell what hed been working on Lawsuits were fired off once DECies saw how similar some of the kernel and subsystem design was when working on the DEC Alpha port of NT and reportedit to their PHBs Read some history for yourself here

httpwwwroughlydraftedcom20090730readers-because while they may not have leftDEC copyrights in the NT source there were some line-for-line reproduction of VMSimplementation

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middot 101 weeks ago

George - no hes not trying to state that at all - youre trying to imply it to fit your anti-MSscreed he was comparing the different programming paradigms each company used notmaking any comment about the quality of code each produced

he also never compared os2 and windows 2 nor made claims about which was better sowhats the point of you comparing them hes simply giving an insider perspective on thedevelopment of windows do we need to turn it into yet another holy OS war

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middot 101 weeks ago

As so many are pointing out punctuation mistakes they seem to be fully ignoring other egregious language errors

From featured excerpt Windows needed to be finished not further tweaked in anyway that jeopardized getting it out that summer without further embarrassment

A) Run-on sentence

B) Incorrect usage of anyway it should be the two-word form any way

I remember some specialized flatbed-scanner proggies based on Win 1x Seems like Vistawas just Windows 20 all over again almost but not quite

DW Great piece BTW The writing here just needs some serious CE love

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middot 101 weeks ago

Don

Given the history of Silicon Valley business (I was there during the formative years and I knowwhat Im talking about) Microsoft while there are plenty of things I can say about it was notthe only one doing the thieving or the copying Bomb throwing comments are useless

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middot 101 weeks ago

-- Periods and commas always go inside quotation marks

Youll find that this is a style issue and the British style is to put them outside the quoteswhere they make much more sense

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middot 101 weeks ago

Interesting article about the history and experience at microsoft Im a PC user from thebegining and worked with windows since the begining starting with dos and windows 31 It isinteresting to see how far PC has come and become integral part of our daily lives with hotmailoffice xbox windows mobile Im even more excited about the future of PC user in light of thetechnologies microsoft is bringing like project natal windows phone 7 series and media center

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middot 101 weeks ago

Great write up takes me back in time Thanks

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middot 101 weeks ago

IcyFog you are correct when it comes to usage in the United States but you might not becorrect in many other English-Speaking countries

httpgrammarccccommnetedugrammarmarksquot

It seems that UK and US English differs in more ways than common idioms and certain

spelling differences

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middot 101 weeks ago

ndash Periods and commas always go inside quotation marks

Putting the periods and commas outside the quotation marks is usually referred to as either British style or logical punctiation Look it up -)

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middot 101 weeks ago

Punctuation inside the quotation marks is a stupid rule English is a living language and usintelligent people are doing away with that rule slowely but surely

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middot 101 weeks ago

Regarding the unnecessarily assertive punctuation complaint - have a look athttpcatborgjargonhtmlwriting-stylehtml

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middot 101 weeks ago

Its quite interesting how Windows started out

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middot 101 weeks ago

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So is Mr Tandy trying to state that Microsoft and its cowboy style produced much better quality and performance than IBM Give me a break

OS2 was a far superior product to Windows from a technical standpoint Sure OS2 did crashfrom time to time but not nearly as often as Windows did And OS2 could run rings aroundWindows in terms of performance doing preemptive multitasking when Windows still couldonly do cooperative multitasking at best OS2 had a robust object model which is still superior to Windows Ever see the animated Windows flashlight when a file is moved That never happened with OS2 because of its object model

OS2 died because IBM could not sell it Windows flourished because of Microsoftsexcellence in business practices like getting Windows pre-installed on every PC sold to theexclusion of all competitive OSes

See the history of Microsofts technical aspects from products like Internet Explorer MSNMicrosoft Bob Live Search and PocketPC Microsoft typically has won due to its excellencein business not technical superiority

Reply

middot 101 weeks ago

If you think early Windows stole from MacIntosh and MITs X-Windows that is nothingcompared to the outright code theft of Windows NT kernel from DEC VMS operating systemYES SIR Windows 7 is still based on this same stolen Windows NT code base THIS ISFACT

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middot 101 weeks ago

George - You are confusing OS2 20 and later versions with the 1x versions of OS2Microsoft was long gone from OS2 development by the time 20 came out and 13 was largelya totally different beast

Also while youre on your high horse you might think about the fact that Windows and OS2had different design requirements Windows was required to work with 8 bit CPUs while OS2could largely throw away backwards compatibility and start with 16 bit CPUs Later versions of Windows had to carry that old DOS compatibility while OS2 chose the more bloated approachof running DOS in a virtual machine which resulted in a minimum memory requirement of 4MBat a time when 4MB cost over $1000

Make no mistake part of the reason OS2 never succeeded was because it was far too bloatedfor the average PC of the time and by the time PCs caught up Windows caught up as well

Reply1 reply middot active 16 weeks ago

middot 101 weeks ago

Andy - Please dont confuse fact with allegation While its true that Microsoft and DECsettled a lawsuit there was no admission of what you refer to Certainly NT was heavilyinfluenced by Dave Cutlers previous work at DEC but there is nothing other than circumstantialevidence to suggest that there was any stolen code

You might as well claim that Netscape stole Mosaic since both were written by the samepeople

Reply

middot 101 weeks ago

I owned Windows286 10 Bought it retail at MicroCenter in Marietta GA As I recall I needed itto play a game I recall not being impressed

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middot 101 weeks ago

Andys comment is about 995 right on NT being stolen I wasnt at DECWest when thishappened but I worked there right out of college and talked with the old-timers Dave Cutler was pissed that project Mica got canceled so he went down the road (literally) to Microsoft tosell what hed been working on Lawsuits were fired off once DECies saw how similar some of the kernel and subsystem design was when working on the DEC Alpha port of NT and reportedit to their PHBs Read some history for yourself here

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middot 101 weeks ago

George - no hes not trying to state that at all - youre trying to imply it to fit your anti-MSscreed he was comparing the different programming paradigms each company used notmaking any comment about the quality of code each produced

he also never compared os2 and windows 2 nor made claims about which was better sowhats the point of you comparing them hes simply giving an insider perspective on thedevelopment of windows do we need to turn it into yet another holy OS war

Reply

middot 101 weeks ago

As so many are pointing out punctuation mistakes they seem to be fully ignoring other egregious language errors

From featured excerpt Windows needed to be finished not further tweaked in anyway that jeopardized getting it out that summer without further embarrassment

A) Run-on sentence

B) Incorrect usage of anyway it should be the two-word form any way

I remember some specialized flatbed-scanner proggies based on Win 1x Seems like Vistawas just Windows 20 all over again almost but not quite

DW Great piece BTW The writing here just needs some serious CE love

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So is Mr Tandy trying to state that Microsoft and its cowboy style produced much better quality and performance than IBM Give me a break

OS2 was a far superior product to Windows from a technical standpoint Sure OS2 did crashfrom time to time but not nearly as often as Windows did And OS2 could run rings aroundWindows in terms of performance doing preemptive multitasking when Windows still couldonly do cooperative multitasking at best OS2 had a robust object model which is still superior to Windows Ever see the animated Windows flashlight when a file is moved That never happened with OS2 because of its object model

OS2 died because IBM could not sell it Windows flourished because of Microsoftsexcellence in business practices like getting Windows pre-installed on every PC sold to theexclusion of all competitive OSes

See the history of Microsofts technical aspects from products like Internet Explorer MSNMicrosoft Bob Live Search and PocketPC Microsoft typically has won due to its excellencein business not technical superiority

Reply

middot 101 weeks ago

If you think early Windows stole from MacIntosh and MITs X-Windows that is nothingcompared to the outright code theft of Windows NT kernel from DEC VMS operating systemYES SIR Windows 7 is still based on this same stolen Windows NT code base THIS ISFACT

Reply

middot 101 weeks ago

George - You are confusing OS2 20 and later versions with the 1x versions of OS2Microsoft was long gone from OS2 development by the time 20 came out and 13 was largelya totally different beast

Also while youre on your high horse you might think about the fact that Windows and OS2had different design requirements Windows was required to work with 8 bit CPUs while OS2could largely throw away backwards compatibility and start with 16 bit CPUs Later versions of Windows had to carry that old DOS compatibility while OS2 chose the more bloated approachof running DOS in a virtual machine which resulted in a minimum memory requirement of 4MBat a time when 4MB cost over $1000

Make no mistake part of the reason OS2 never succeeded was because it was far too bloatedfor the average PC of the time and by the time PCs caught up Windows caught up as well

Reply1 reply middot active 16 weeks ago

middot 101 weeks ago

Andy - Please dont confuse fact with allegation While its true that Microsoft and DECsettled a lawsuit there was no admission of what you refer to Certainly NT was heavilyinfluenced by Dave Cutlers previous work at DEC but there is nothing other than circumstantialevidence to suggest that there was any stolen code

You might as well claim that Netscape stole Mosaic since both were written by the samepeople

Reply

middot 101 weeks ago

I owned Windows286 10 Bought it retail at MicroCenter in Marietta GA As I recall I needed itto play a game I recall not being impressed

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middot 101 weeks ago

Andys comment is about 995 right on NT being stolen I wasnt at DECWest when thishappened but I worked there right out of college and talked with the old-timers Dave Cutler was pissed that project Mica got canceled so he went down the road (literally) to Microsoft tosell what hed been working on Lawsuits were fired off once DECies saw how similar some of the kernel and subsystem design was when working on the DEC Alpha port of NT and reportedit to their PHBs Read some history for yourself here

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middot 101 weeks ago

George - no hes not trying to state that at all - youre trying to imply it to fit your anti-MSscreed he was comparing the different programming paradigms each company used notmaking any comment about the quality of code each produced

he also never compared os2 and windows 2 nor made claims about which was better sowhats the point of you comparing them hes simply giving an insider perspective on thedevelopment of windows do we need to turn it into yet another holy OS war

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middot 101 weeks ago

As so many are pointing out punctuation mistakes they seem to be fully ignoring other egregious language errors

From featured excerpt Windows needed to be finished not further tweaked in anyway that jeopardized getting it out that summer without further embarrassment

A) Run-on sentence

B) Incorrect usage of anyway it should be the two-word form any way

I remember some specialized flatbed-scanner proggies based on Win 1x Seems like Vistawas just Windows 20 all over again almost but not quite

DW Great piece BTW The writing here just needs some serious CE love

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middot 101 weeks ago

George - no hes not trying to state that at all - youre trying to imply it to fit your anti-MSscreed he was comparing the different programming paradigms each company used notmaking any comment about the quality of code each produced

he also never compared os2 and windows 2 nor made claims about which was better sowhats the point of you comparing them hes simply giving an insider perspective on thedevelopment of windows do we need to turn it into yet another holy OS war

Reply

middot 101 weeks ago

As so many are pointing out punctuation mistakes they seem to be fully ignoring other egregious language errors

From featured excerpt Windows needed to be finished not further tweaked in anyway that jeopardized getting it out that summer without further embarrassment

A) Run-on sentence

B) Incorrect usage of anyway it should be the two-word form any way

I remember some specialized flatbed-scanner proggies based on Win 1x Seems like Vistawas just Windows 20 all over again almost but not quite

DW Great piece BTW The writing here just needs some serious CE love

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