Remove 2001 Remove Hardware Remove Mobile
article thumbnail

A new era for Windows: Can Microsoft’s longtime engine power another tech revolution?

GeekWire

Microsoft co-founders Bill Gates and Paul Allen chose to produce software for a range of PCs, rather than making hardware of their own. It originated on mobile phones and the field of computational photography. Microsoft is betting Windows on AI, looking to breathe new life into one of the most successful products in tech history.

Windows 119
article thumbnail

Windows turns 35: a visual history

The Verge

While Apple had been ahead in producing mouse-driven GUIs at the time, it remained focused on the combination of hardware and software. This approach to providing software for hardware partners to sell their own machines created a huge platform for Microsoft. Windows XP (2001). With Windows 1.0, Windows 95 (1995).

Windows 145
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

With ‘Pluton’ chip, Microsoft shows strength, and proves Trustworthy Computing still matters

GeekWire

This mobilization of industry giants is reminiscent of Microsoft at the height of its power. Pluton can provide new defenses against the emerging class of hardware-based speculative execution that we saw emerging in 2018 with Spectre and Meltdown.

Microsoft 133
article thumbnail

Fountainhead: Egenera PAN now available on Dell blades

Fountainhead

Since about 2001, Egenera has been selling its high-end hardware/software combination that unified re-purposing of physical and virtual servers. Mobile Work. (4). Mobility. (2). Today at Citrix I'm helping others understand opportunities and pathways for mobility and cloud infrastructure. / /. Marketing. (3).

Dell 100
article thumbnail

Interview: Steve Ballmer is still Microsoft’s largest individual investor — and its most loyal fan

GeekWire

and Europe, and the rise of cloud computing with both successes and missteps in areas like search and mobile. We were looking, at that time, at maybe acquiring HTC, because it was already clear we would have to do hardware. Ballmer said Microsofts problems in mobile went back to its original approach to the category.

article thumbnail

Fountainhead: Correcting computing's wrongs - road to recovery?

Fountainhead

Both of these technologies instantly resulted in additional hardware on the motherboard: The Network Interface Card (NIC) for connection to Ethernet, etc., These pieces of hardware were sometimes incorporated into the motherboard itself, or sometimes were additional plug-ins. and the Host Bus Adaptor (HBA) for connection to storage.

Hardware 100
article thumbnail

Fountainhead: First fruits from the Dell/Egenera deal

Fountainhead

This is the first of a pipeline of customers buying-into Infrastructure Orchestration (also referred to as Fabric Computing or Unified Computing) - first offered in 2001 by Egenera with their high-end BladeFrame + PAN Manager software, and now being mainstreamed as the Dell PAN System by combining PAN Manager with Dell hardware.

Dell 100