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this episode of techwiki is best viewed in Internet Explorer 11 just kidding but

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it wasn't too long ago that Microsoft's position in the market was so dominant

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that nearly everyone was using iie anyways along with Windows Office and

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that space cadet pinball game that was actually awesome so just how did

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Microsoft become the face of the software industry before Google was even

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a glint in Larry Page's eye well it

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started back in 1975 when Bill Gates and

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Paul Allen wanted to get the programming language basic working on their alter

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8800 the first successful PC the one

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with the little lights and switches on the front that was programmed directly

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by toggling them they believed a basic interpreter would make it a lot easier

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for people to program on the alt using a keyboard what a concept this interpreter

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called alt basic was Microsoft's first ever product and it took up just 4

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kilobytes on paper tape it proved to be so popular that Bill Gates sent a very

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angry letter to hobbyist telling them to stop copying it and passing it around

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for free unfortunately for Bill product activation was still a few decades away

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but that's okay it didn't stop Microsoft from growing and developing many more

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forms of basic through the early 1980s

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which served not only as programming environments but also as Proto operating

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systems for home computers of the time Microsoft also launched its first ever

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piece of Hardware in 1980 called the soft card which allowed the operating

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system CPM which later evolved into Doss

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to run on Apple Computers sound familiar

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anyway speaking of Doss Microsoft agreed to produce Doss for IBM in

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1981 which quickly made Microsoft a software giant their yearly Revenue

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raised from 16 million in 1981 to over 97 million a mere 3 years later in

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1984 this number was also bolstered by the introduction of Microsoft Word in

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1983 which was notable for being one of the first what you see is what you get

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word processors meaning you could see formatting like italics on screen

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instead of having to type in a command later to get the printer to print the

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font that you want and Microsoft continued to roll with the whole idea of

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making things on the monitor look nicer when they released Windows 1.0 in 1985

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and while this initial version of Windows was really just a graphical

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shell that ran on top of MS DOS it was still ahead of its time in some ways for

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example it was widely criticized for relying too much on the mouse since most

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computers in 1985 didn't even have them yet but Bill Gates who previously

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announced that the company would focus firmly on Windows was undeterred and 5

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years later in 1990 Windows 3.0 was

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released and was a smashing success thanks in no small part to their use of

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real actual icons to represent programs and files and a support for a whopping

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256 colors the original version of Microsoft Office was also released this

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year and was similarly successful though some of Microsoft's productivity

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software Rivals cried foul because Microsoft's knowledge of Windows

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supposedly allowed them to make office run better on Windows than the

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competition whatever the truth was Windows became the world's most popular

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graphical OS in 1993 with office

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becoming the market leader in productivity applications a year later

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so with all this success the stage was very much set for the much B hooded

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Windows 95 release in you guessed it

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1995 which included many enduring features like the start menu the modern

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Windows desktop Paradigm and the taskbar

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this along with Microsoft's growing portfolio of consumer products like

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incarta Internet Explorer and MSN which

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is still around as a dialup provider and a web portal quickly turned Microsoft

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into a household name and a Mainstay on both home and office PCS

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worldwide they even invaded our TVs partnering with General Electric to

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launch MSNBC in 1996 a cable news

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channel that emphasized interactivity and online news to complement its TV

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offerings in its early days of course Microsoft's market dominance raised some

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eyebrows especially when they bundled internet explore with Windows 98 and

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treated the browser as an integral part of the operating system certain elements

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of Windows wouldn't run properly without IE this escalated to the point where the

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US government nearly broke Microsoft into two companies in 2000 though this

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was avoided through a settlement while this litigation was going on Microsoft

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rolled out Windows me which was so buggy that PC World joked that me stood for

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mistake Edition but Redmond quickly writed itself in 2011 releasing the

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venerable Windows XP the first Windows

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version for consumers that ditch Ms Doss

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which ran underneath Windows 90x using

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the much more stable Windows NT kernel which was previously only intended for

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business use that same year Microsoft Dove head first into the game console

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Wars releasing the original Xbox is a big Fu to Sony whose PlayStation product

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line was driving game developers away from Windows and although the Xbox may

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have been a little big and looked a little tacky it was ahead of its time in

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a number of ways being the first console to include an Ethernet Jack and a hard

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drive so by this point it's clear that Microsoft was trying to diversify their

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business in areas other than just the traditional PC software space but

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unfortunately if we went into all of Microsoft's post 2001 successes and

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missteps this wouldn't really be a tech Quicky episode it'd be like a tech

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