Category Archives: Microsoft
Microsoft Word’s 30th Birthday
Thirty years ago today, Microsoft released it’s first full-featured application, a word processor called Word for MS-DOS 1.00. Microsoft provided a free demonstration copy with every copy of PC World magazine. It’s the first time in history a magazine has included a floppy-disk.
Bill Gates Explains control-alt-delete
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Steve Jobs: Thank You, Bill Gates
Today in 1997, Steve Jobs was on the cover of Time Magazine, thanking Bill Gates for saving Apple.
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Steve Jobs and Bill Gates, 1997
Fifteen years ago today, Steve Jobs was on the cover of Time Magazine, thanking Bill Gates for saving Apple.
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The Story of Information 