Know more about Windows-operating systems..

Do you think it was either of Paul allen or Bill Gates who was behind naming the Microsoft's (GUI) operating system as -->windows ..

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who do you think was the the guy behind Windows it was none other than

The marketing whiz ------>>> Rowland Hanson ..

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On November 10, 1983, at the Plaza Hotel in New York City, Microsoft Corporation formally announced Microsoft Windows, a next-generation(in those days) operating system that would provide a graphical user interface (GUI) and a multitasking environment for IBM computers.

Windows might have been released under the original name of Interface Manager if marketing whiz, Rowland Hanson had not convinced Microsoft's founder Bill Gates that Windows was the far better name.

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Goin to the backstage of development of windows !!!!!!!!!

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* windows didnot get encouragement from IBM at first as in those days MS-DOS Microsoft's other operating system was more successful .

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* The Graphical user interface(GUI) in windows were a taken from Apple's Lisa and Macintosh(Mac) pc's..

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* Microsoft Windows version 1.0 was considered buggy, crude, and slow..

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* Apple computers filed a law suit against windows warned Bill Gates that Windows 1.0 infringed on Apple copyrights and patents, and that his corporation stoled Apple's trade secrets. Microsoft Windows had similar drop-down menus, tiled windows and mouse support.

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The most Brilliant act of Bill Gates ...

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Bill Gates and his head counsel Bill Neukom, decided to make an offer to license features of Apple's operating system.

Apple agreed and a contract was drawn up. Here's the clincher: Microsoft wrote the licensing agreement to include use of Apple features in Microsoft Windows version 1.0 and all future Microsoft software programs. As it turned out, this move by Bill Gates was as brilliant as his decision to buy QDOS from Seattle Computer Products and his convincing IBM to let Microsoft keep the licensing rights to MS-DOS.

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And when Microsoft Broke The Rulesssssssss.....

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Microsoft released a much-improved Windows version 2.0 that made Windows based computers look more like a Mac. Windows 2.0 had icons to represent programs and files, improved support for expanded-memory hardware and windows that could overlap. Apple Computer saw a resemblance and filed a 1988 lawsuit against Microsoft, alleging that they had broken the 1985 licensing agreement..

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In their defense, Microsoft claimed that the licensing agreement actually gave them the rights to

use Apple features. After a four-year court case, Microsoft won. Apple claimed that Microsoft had infringed on 170 of their copyrights. The courts said that the licensing agreement gave Microsoft the rights to use all but nine of the copyrights, and Microsoft later convinced the courts that the remaining copyrights should not be covered by copyright law. Bill Gates claimed that Apple had taken ideas from the graphical user interface developed by Xerox for Xerox's

Alto and Star computers.

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What would have happened if Microsoft had lost the lawsuit? Microsoft Windows might never have become the dominant operating system that it is today.........