On Wed, 01 Aug 2007 15:10:46 +0100, Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
>All the Myth about Microsoft!
>| * Microsoft was first with graphical user interface
The Alto computer system incorporated the first graphical user
interface in 1973.
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>| * Microsoft designed BASIC Language
It was originally designed in 1963, by John George Kemeny and Thomas
Eugene Kurtz at Dartmouth Colleg.
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>| * Microsoft designed visual basic
It was created by Alan Cooper.
http://www.forestmoon.com/BIRTHofVB/BIRTHofVB.html
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>| * Microsoft invented DOS
MS-DOS began as QDOS (for Quick and Dirty Operating System),
written by Tim Paterson for computer manufacturer Seattle Computer
Products (SCP) in 1980.
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>| * Microsoft designed the first spreadsheet - Excel
Visicalc was the first spreadsheet program.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VisiCalc
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>| * Microsoft designed the first word processor
Released in 1979 by Micropro International, WordStar was the first commercially
successful word processing software program.
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>| * First with Internet browser
Tim Berners-Leetogether with Robert Cailliau, built the first working prototype
in late 1990 and early 1991. It was called WorldWideWeb.
Anyone who thinks Microsoft is innovative had better take another look.
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