Brief history of computer together with microsoft

His presentation, called "A Research Center for Augmenting Human Intellect" includes a live demonstration of his computer, including a mouse and a graphical user interface GUI , according to the Doug Engelbart Institute. This marks the development of the computer from a specialized machine for academics to a technology that is more accessible to the general public. The team behind UNIX continued to develop the operating system using the C programming language, which they also optimized. Months later, entrepreneur Nolan Bushnell and engineer Al Alcorn with Atari release Pong, the world's first commercially successful video game.

On April 4, after the success of this first endeavor, the two childhood friends form their own software company, Microsoft.

Jobs and Wozniak present the Apple II computer at the Faire, which includes color graphics and features an audio cassette drive for storage. Optional features include a display, printer, two diskette drives, extra memory, a game adapter and more.

The machine also includes a drop-down menu and icons. Also this year, the Gavilan SC is released and is the first portable computer with a flip-form design and the very first to be sold as a "laptop. Meanwhile, Commodore announces the Amiga This investment ends an ongoing court case in which Apple accused Microsoft of copying its operating system. OS X goes through 16 different versions, each with "10" as its title, and the first nine iterations are nicknamed after big cats, with the first being codenamed "Cheetah," TechRadar reported.

The Web browser is one of the first major challenges to Internet Explorer, owned by Microsoft. He took responsibility and set high goals for future accessibility.

Without doubt, the attitude about accessibility coming from Microsoft employees is far more positive than it was a few years ago. The defensiveness that characterized so many discussions in years past is gone. Accessibility has indeed become part of the company's mission, albeit a small part, and Microsoft developers readily seek opportunities to do more to address obstacles. Criticism seems welcome, developers are almost begging for users' feedback, and the number of employees working on access has dramatically increased, both within the Accessibility and Disabilities Group and in major product areas.

Microsoft has come a long way and has made the strongest, most visible commitment to accessibility of any technology company, but it is not difficult to argue that even more should be done. Windows CE does not contain accessibility features. Key applications such as Access are not nearly as accessible as they should be.

Some other software, such as Encarta, has major accessibility problems. Even when significant progress has been made, new products are released without fully incorporating existing accessibility features. For example, Windows Millennium probably will not include Narrator, the operating systems' built-in voice-output program.

Significant problems remain in Office and in developer tools, even though work has been done to improve the accessibility of these products. Assistive technology vendors generally commend Microsoft for the company's support, but they also note that support is uneven, depending on the application in question. We know that pressure from advocates has made a difference in convincing Microsoft to do more at key points: first, around the release of Windows 95, and later, after the Internet Explorer fiasco.

We have many champions inside the company, within the Accessibility and Disabilities Group and within some product groups. But these champions will need us to remain assertive in pushing the company to make good on its commitments and providing timely feedback on problems we encounter. For those who really want to be in the know on what Microsoft is up to for accessibility, the company publishes a free electronic newsletter called AbleNews.

Americans, from the average consumer to the federal government, have begun reconsidering their relationship with Silicon Valley. Over the past few decades computers have cemented their place at the center of personal and professional lives. Most readers under the age of 40 probably don't know what people would do during the workday without a PC, nor would most of us know how to cook a meal or find a dentist without checking the internet.

Companies and individuals have made record-shattering fortunes providing these services, but at a cost. Personal data has become ever more insecure and we've come to depend on sources of information that turn out to be little more than infotainment in disguise.

Cities have degraded their infrastructure in reliance on companies that then set record-shattering losses, while other companies have created a new era of monopoly by quietly acquiring every potential competitor. If the last 40 years have been the story of computers blowing open access to information, the next decade might tell the story of what Americans choose to do about that.

Americans love the inventor working out of their garage. From Ben Franklin puttering in his living room to Thomas Edison inventing the modern world out of Menlo Park, this is a story that people tell over and over again. It's the common-man-makes-good story. In the case of Microsoft it's also somewhat true. Allen had worked as a programmer for the company Honeywell while Gates studied at mathematics and computer science at Harvard.

Nevertheless, they did launch their company out of a garage in Albuquerque, N. Microsoft was originally founded to write code for a company called MITS which produced the Altair computer. Specifically, their company sold an interpreter for the popular BASIC programming language that would run on the Altair.

An "interpreter" is a piece of software which lets users write and execute code on the computer. They named their company Microsoft for Microcomputer Software, a nod to the era of miniaturization that changed computing forever. This proved wildly successful. Over the next five years, Gates and Allen continued to develop both their version of BASIC and other programming languages, selling interpreter software to manufacturers. UNIX and its related software LINUX remained as the other major operating systems that users could install if they chose, as they do today, but neither have ever received mainstream consumer adoption.

Report entered the consumer computer market but the two companies never competed directly. Although over time Apple and Microsoft came to dominate the personal computer market, each took a very different approach. Until it entered the tablet market, Microsoft never had a relationship with the hardware running its operating system.

It simply licensed DOS and later Windows to manufacturers. Apple, on the other hand, was and is a company that controls every step of the process. It doesn't license its operating system. It builds devices to run Apple software natively.

While Apple's approach has, arguably, led to more advanced, stable and efficient computers, it also left the company with a decided disadvantage in the market. Microsoft's licensing model let it access far more consumers at a cheaper price point, leading its operating system to dominate the market.

By , when the company released its first version of Windows, MS-DOS had become the industry standard with Apple in second place and falling behind. In the company relocated to its current home of Redmond, Wash. In the company released Windows 95, a redesign of its Windows OS which used the basic design template that it would rely on arguably to this day.

That same year Microsoft also released its web browser Internet Explorer, a product that would lead to troubles that might seem very familiar to technology CEOs today. This was a one-party market dominance not seen since the Justice Department broke up the Bell System telephone monopoly, and one never before allowed since the U. Microsoft's one-party rule was different, though, in a way that regulators and lawyers continue to struggle with today.