GeekWire

DECEMBER 18, 2024

A lot has changed since Windows debuted in 1985 as a graphical operating environment which runs on the Microsoft MS-DOS operating system. Microsoft co-founders Bill Gates and Paul Allen chose to produce software for a range of PCs, rather than making hardware of their own.

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The Verge

MAY 21, 2020

The Xbox source code includes the kernel for the operating system on the original console, a custom version of Windows 2000. Microsoft developed the first Xbox with x86 hardware in mind, but the Xbox kernel was based on a custom and stripped down version of Windows 2000 with DirectX 8 support. Original Xbox Dashboard.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

While Apple had been ahead in producing mouse-driven GUIs at the time, it remained focused on the combination of hardware and software. Microsoft had already created its low-cost PC DOS operating system for IBM PCs, and was firmly positioned as a software company. Windows XP (2001). With Windows 1.0, Windows 95 (1995).

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Vox

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Back in 2001 when I worked at Vodafone, we saw this problem coming,” said Marc Rogers, who is now chief security officer at the cybersecurity firm Q-Net Security. Use an authenticator app or hardware key instead. And, as Ugo’s story shows, there are unintended consequences when they do.

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Trends in the Living Networks

JULY 14, 2011

Lonely Planet launched CitySync in January 2000, providing in-depth guides to four US cities plus Sydney for mobile devices running the PalmOS operating system. Despite being historically a software firm rather than hardware vendor, it was easy for it to outsource manufacturing of the console.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 16, 2024

“Clippy” the Microsoft Office assistant — aka “the little paperclip with the soulful eyes and the Groucho eyebrows” — debuted later that year with the release of Office 97, going on to interrupt the drafting of untold numbers of term papers and letters at inconvenient moments before its official retirement in 2001.

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GeekWire

MARCH 13, 2025

The closest comparison, Ballmer said, was the companys alliance with IBM, developing operating systems for early personal computers. We were looking, at that time, at maybe acquiring HTC, because it was already clear we would have to do hardware. How does OpenAI compare to Microsofts past partnerships?

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