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Legal - FreeFalcon doesn't have the cleanest history regarding its terms of use, but that all ends here. The code is now licensed under the rather liberal BSD 2-clause license; for the first time in its history, FreeFalcon is truly free. It was published by Acornsoft in I like to describe Free Fall as the first ever beat-em-up so as to claim, with tongue somewhat in cheek, to have invented two gaming genres. Archived from the original on 1 February Retrieved 18 January Archived from the original on 13 November The entire library of art assets from the game, has been made freely available, dedicated to the public domain.

Code from the game client is included to help developers work with the assets.

All of it can be downloaded and used by anyone, for any purpose. Glitch's offbeat art enters public domain". Das Team hatte Zugriff auf den Quellcode von Gothic 3. Jan made an archaeological expedition and recovered the GF2 source code from a dusty old floppy disc! We do not pretend it is a wonder in coding style in fact, it is a complete disaster!

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Archived from the original on 21 July Retrieved 6 June Archived from the original on 3 October Retrieved 3 August Source code released to the world! Re-licensing of code requested". The license agreement for the original release of the source still stands. There is another version of the source code floating about which is apparently for the CD version.

Archived from the original on June 7, Retrieved June 7, How Hundreds Came to the iPad". Archived from the original on June 8, Retrieved June 8, We've made a ROM file available, as well as the source code. Allen Pilgrim declared Kiloblaster freeware and released the source code. Allen Pilgrim on pyra-handheld. The source code is also released as freeware. I am perfectly fine with people creating ports of the game and using all the assets for those ports. What I do not authorize is someone taking the assets and creating a new game. Durandal" to the net.

This is the Shared Source release for MechCommander 2. This release contains all of the source code and source assets required to build MechCommander 2. This source code is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License with the following special exception. As a special exception, the copyright holders of this program give you permission to link this program with the accompanying files wrap.

Because we are no longer doing flight sims [after Empire took us over at the end of ], and we would not be able to publish any patches that were required [no money was allocated to this], rather than let MiG die and all the code sit doing nothing it was considered a good idea, a swan song, if you like, for Rowan [after 13 years in the flight sim market].

Organized under the name MythDevelopers, this all-volunteer group of programmers, artists, and other talented people devote their time to improving and supporting further development of the Myth game series. Going Open Source With Games". Disappointed with the turn of events, Cyan decided to release Myst Online: Uru Live as an open source game in hoping fans would be able to give the game a new life.

The code described below and contained in the Natural Selection Source Code release is not part of the Program covered by the GPL and is expressly excluded from its terms. No One Lives Forever website. Archived from the original on February 24, Retrieved October 24, Somebody's working on a modern port of NOLF2!!! Archived from the original on July 25, Retrieved February 13, Archived from the original on 31 March Retrieved 18 October Archived from the original on 14 April P1 is being opened sourced in the near future! Notable Games Lost to Time".

Prince of Persia creator Jordan Mechner believed that the source code to the game's original Apple II version was gone when he failed to find it in Ten years later, Mechner's father uncovered a box of old games at the family home, and among them were disks containing Prince of Persia's bedrock program. The Battle for Newerth now Freeware".

The battle for Newerth and announced its continued development with the implementation of new features and content into the game via a patch named XR, incorporating previous community modifications. In order to give the Siege game an extended practical life, allow ongoing player support, give the game a chance to be made available on other platforms, and to share our technical learning experience with the game development community, the Board of Directors at Digital Tome LP have agreed to release the Delphi source to the Siege game to the Open Source community under an LGPL license!

I am currently engaged in discussions to re-release Siege of Avalon. The long vaunted union of SSI naval-sims is complete — thanks to fans". The original crippling flaw, multiplayer instability, has been dramatically minimized [ Let the ports begin The code won't have reference to any SimCity name as that has all be renamed to Micropolis.

Micropolis was the original working title of the game and since EA requires that the GPL open source version not use the same name as SimCity to protect their trademark a little work had to be done to the code. Dave Clark's Home Page. Today we have a very important announcement for our modders and our community. This comes as a continuation of our decision to give more freedom to modders and community. When the original developers of Star Control 2 contacted the online Star Control fan community, they presented an enticing question: Michael Martin, a year-old Ph.

After removing proprietary 3DO-specific components from the code, the developers released the source for Star Control 2 to the public. Official Star Ruler 2 discussion board on Steam. Archived from the original on July 24, Retrieved July 24, In the wake of Lucasarts' closure today, Raven - the developers of the thoroughly excellent Jedi Outcast - have decided to release the source code for the game. Oh, and the code for its sequel, Jedi Academy, as well. Apparently the excellent and unique military space sim, Starshatter: The Gathering Storm, has gone open source thanks to its original developer releasing the source code.

The Gathering Storm is a moderately complex, moderately realistic, spaceborne military flight sim that takes place in a series of dynamic campaigns. Archived from the original on July 21, Retrieved July 1, Veteran Edition and we are planning on releasing more code in the future. Archived from the original on December 31, As of Tuesday, November 18, , the Stellar Frontier source code has officially been released by Stardock Corporation. End-User License Agreement was updated June 19th Der Clou Archived at the Wayback Machine.

Archived from the original on November 4, C source available Archived at the Wayback Machine. Tyrian ships and tiles Archived at the Wayback Machine. Included in the download is the sourcecode for the project. The list of fixes upon fixes are too long to mention here, but the essential purpose of v is to add DirectX9 and OpenAL support as well as mending everything that needs mending.

Epic are aware of and permit the patch [ We get bored easily and once we've finished a game we want to work on something completely different. But wait, what if there's other cool stuff that could be done that we left out? If you are a programmer you can take any of our games to the next level by becoming a developer.

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Buy access to our hosted SVN repo and get forum access to chat about your mods with the rest of the community. Archived from the original on 18 May Retrieved 21 September Z Oct Archived at the Wayback Machine. These games were rescued from Atari ST format diskettes that were thrown out behind Borregas when Atari closed up in The Atari Museum rescued these important treasures and recovered them from the diskettes.

This was originally posted on eludevisibility. As of this weekend, Christmas has come early for the Through the Looking Glass community. If you asked me which is my favorite all time video game, my number one would be Thief II. This is an unofficial patch for Thief II: The Metal Age T2 which updates the game from v1. Curt should find Super Pac-Man and do that one, too Retrieved January 6, Trespasser remake aims to make good on long-lost promises". The community has even managed to get hold of the original source code, which they've set to work modifying. Because of our agreement with Electronic Arts, we're not allowed to post recovered source code for download--but rest easy knowing that the C files that started it all are being kept safe for future reference.

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Our offline archive contains material that has been preserved but which can't be posted, including other source code and budget data from several of the games. As we celebrate Wing Commander III's first widespread retail availability since the late s, we would like to mention for anyone that we have the game's source code in our offline archive. We know it's frustrating for fans, who could do amazing things with this, to read these updates Just let us know!

We can't offer it for download at this time, but it is now preserved for future use. Among the assets included: From an anonymous source close to the company, I've found myself in possession of the "Infocom Drive" — a complete backup of Infocom's shared network drive from The Game Preservation Crisis, Part 1".

Archived from the original on April 22, Retrieved January 10, The existence of decaying technology, disorganization, and poor storage could in theory put a video game to sleep permanently -- never to be played again. Troubling admissions have surfaced over the years concerning video game preservation. When questions concerning re-releases of certain game titles are brought up during interviews with developers, for example, these developers would reveal issues of game production material being lost or destroyed.

Certain game titles could not see a re-release due to various issues. One story began to circulate of source code being lost altogether for a well-known RPG, preventing its re-release on a new console. Archived from the original on September 30, In , Taito announced that they lost the original source code program to Bubble Bobble following a reorganization - when it came to the recent ports and sequels, they had to work from program disassembly, playing the game and mainly the various home computer ports.

Archived from the original on December 20, Retrieved December 1, Retrieved January 9, Archived from the original on July 6, Here is a version for Windows, in case anyone is interested. Unpack it into the directory where Albion is installed - read the Readme for more information use Albion. I was amazed to discover an elegant system based on a virtual machine interpreting bytecode in realtime and generating fullscreen vectorial cinematic in order to produce one of the best game of all time. Creep Archived at the Wayback Machine.

And then released the game and source code for free. Can he do that? The code, written in assembly language for the MOS Technology 8-bit processor, has been around for a while, having been reconstructed by Dennis Debro in The Extra-Terrestrial for the Atari ". Archived from the original on April 8, Retrieved April 6, Archived from the original on September 2, From that beginning on the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron, the game went on to be released for most home computers of the time.

Celebrate by playing Elite again, for free. The New Kind by clicking here. Featuring an enormous procedurally generated landscape, a complete physics engine and a host of game elements to interact with, it remains unsurpassed in pushing the capabilities of the system to their limits. Yes I've recently decided to allow old versions of Exile to be downloaded for emulation under certain conditions: This is reverse engineered, so it should play identically. Elite 2 by the great man mentioned previously. It was disassembled, OS calls and hardware access removed, and originally run on a stripped down ST emulator Hatari.

Now it is compiled to C or native x86, and run much faster without 68K emulation. A dandy evolution for a crappy old Atari ST game. As well as running on many more operating systems than the original, JJFFE also includes minor improvements and bugfixes. I'm sure many of you remember the awesome game that is RollerCoaster Tycoon 2; a game by Chris Sawyer and published by Infograms in which you manage your very own theme park, with all its rides, shops, guests and economic fortune.

Well that same game is now being given a much needed adjustment with the latest release of OpenRCT2 Project. An open source development which improves the game even further with new features, original bug fixes, raised game limits and much more! Archived from the original on November 19, Retrieved November 18, Kaiser is currently remaking '96 shooter PowerSlave, and was asked about giving the same treatment to Turok. Starcraft Archived at the Wayback Machine. Dark Forces 2 game engine recreation on github.

Most people assume the source codes and gold versions of all finished games were stored in a Vault somewhere at EA. But after getting in touch with people at Wing Commander CIC, it appeared that all the source code was lost when the company closed. I have used them over the years to convert a few games. Some conversions get some enhancements, some not. Types of freeware video games.

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Views Read Edit View history. In other projects Wikimedia Commons. Languages Deutsch Edit links. This page was last edited on 18 September , at By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Online text-based role-playing game. The game was released in commercially on Steam by independent developer Undertow Games Joonas "Regalis" Rikkonen. Source code was released on 4 June on GitHub under a restrictive mods allowing license. Diamond Trust of London.

On August 28, it was released for the Nintendo DS. The game has been placed in the public domain , hosted on SourceForge , like most of Rohrer's games. Bill Gates , Neil Konzen. The game was developed open-source on GitHub with an own open-source game engine [14] by several The Battle for Wesnoth developers and released in July for several platforms.

Senior video game developer Casey Muratori started November a project to program a commercial C based game from the scratch and documenting the development in a series of videostreams; [20] planned are episodes, one per day. Released in on Steam [22] and GitHub [23] as open-source roguelike with focus on mathematics. Released in on GitHub [24] as open-source non-Euclidean roguelike, it was commercialized in on Steam and other distributors.

Source code was bundled and released with JA2: Unfinished Business source code became later available too. Released February and exclusively sold via the developer's webpage. Originally created in on a MZ home computer by Yutaka Isokawa. In the game community restored an faithful as possible version from the available variants. The source code of the game is available since on GitHub under non-commercial conditions. John Gallaugher released the 68k Mac game including the source code. Santa Paravia en Fiumaccio. A comedic, adult-oriented text adventure game produced for the Apple II in Game source released on August 8, as it is based on the id-tech 4 engine.

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BAS" was available early on, ports and remaster exist therefore by the community. The Castle Doctrine is developed by Jason Rohrer in a public Sourceforge repository and is like most of his creative works in the public domain. Source code is hosted on GitHub. NetHack General Public License. Falcon's Eye was developed by Jaakko Peltonen as graphical version of Nethack. In October the game was put into the Steam Greenlight process [60] and successfully released on Steam in January Game source code was released as public domain along with the shareware-released media files.

In a community developer released a "20th anniversary source port" [63] [64] which enabled custom resolutions, OpenGL rendering, Xbox controller support and fixed the music. Scott Adams Adventureland's [65] source code was published in SoftSide magazine in [66] and the database format was subsequently used in other interpreters such as Brian Howarth's Mysterious Adventures series. On 24 March Airline Tycoon Deluxe was re-released on the digital distribution platform gog.

Glen Cumming provided media and material of his Amiga games "AlienBash" and "AlienBash II" to the fan community, who was able to restore source code in Alien Breed 3D II: Alien vs Predator Atari Jaguar game. Own non-commercial license [79]. Source code released by Rebellion Developments An unofficial patch project for the PC version, based on the source code, was released and is still updated. Released in as one of the earliest 3D games [80] with full 6-axis degree of freedom. MIT license earlier Shared Source [85]. Developed by George Moromisato in Around the source code of the DOS version 2.

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Retrieved from " https: Use mdy dates from June Interlanguage link template link number. Views Read Edit View history. This page was last edited on 15 September , at By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. First Seattle Computer release. Hard disk drive , directories , device drivers. Half-height disk drives, ROM cartridges. Disk compression AddStor's SuperStor. Disk utilities, DoubleSpace disk compression.

Last Microsoft release; DriveSpace disk compression. Memory optimizations, Stacker disk compression, Rexx. Some Intel customers have used the MCS-4 and MCS-8 microcomputer chip sets introduced in and in more than 60 applications, including: Microcomputers are increasingly used in systems too small or slow to warrant use of minicomputers. It can be programmed in two minutes using Intel's punched paper tape -actuated programmer, and erased as often as needed by shining an ultraviolet light through a transparent quartz cap on the package.

History of the floppy disk. The Intel -based Micral N , the first personal computer using a microprocessor , is offered for sale. History of hard disk drives. However, the 's seven-level subroutine call stack is too small to support a self-hosted compiler. The Intellecs have resident monitors stored in ROMs. Nearly all new computers, regardless of size, now come with a semiconductor memory or a choice between semiconductors and cores.

The dominant mainframe at the time, the IBM , can address 2 24 16,, memory locations, or 16 megabytes MB of memory. The 's enhanced stack makes self hosted high level language development feasible. Lacking an affordable reader for channel paper tapes, the Traf-O-Data partners turn to a local inventor. Kildall's friend John Torode developed the controller hardware while Kildall worked on the disk operating system software. Mass storage is provided by quarter-inch cartridge QIC magnetic tape drives.

The cassette was expected to retain its leadership position through IBM introduces more hardware components for its finance communication system, including the first double-sided dual head floppy drive. His wife sends diskettes to customers responding to an ad they ran in Dr. An ad runs in the December Byte as well. Tandon Magnetics files a patent for its double-sided ferrite disk read-and-write heads , which improved on IBM's design by employing a fixed transducer on one side and a movable transducer on the other side, and offered its Series heads to OEMs.

Intel releases the bit Intel microprocessor, which has a bit address bus that can address 2 20 1,, memory locations, or one megabyte of segmented memory. Rubinstein founds MicroPro International. Its WordStar word processor application would become a de facto standard. Intel releases the Intel microprocessor, a lower cost variant of the which has an 8-bit external data bus instead of the bit bus of the the bit registers and one megabyte address space were unchanged. To the programmer, the and instruction sets are identical, except for execution speed. Seattle Computer Products ships its first card.

It reportedly took over 50 KB of memory by itself and required some sort of bank-switching or extended address scheme to run any programs. Yourdon later withdrew the product due to software bugs. IBM first contacts Microsoft to look the company over. Their secret Project Chess needs both programming languages and an operating system. Paterson's operating system, which he calls QDOS 0.

Microsoft announces Xenix , a port of Version 7 Unix to x86 computers, saying that it will prevent a bit software crisis. All that was left was to translate the terms into a formal contract within 60 days. Seattle Computer releases DOS 0. Microsoft and Seattle Computer formally sign their agreement. Exhibit "A" of the agreement detailed extended DOS features to be developed by Seattle Computer, including "Directory expanded to include date.

Johnson-Laird said that Kildall "went ashen" when he saw that. Microsoft delivers its adapted DOS 1. The product includes three major modules: EXE and a few external commands: Nevertheless, MicroPro has made sure that WordStar will be available for both. Earlier, Microsoft signed its first DOS customer, Cleveland's Tecmar , but they put their machine on the back burner when they became a major player in the PC peripherals business. In concurrent systems, several functions, organized by the operating system, run simultaneously, using different files. These functions operate in the background, or multiground if there is more than one function operating.

While this is happening, the user works on another task using the terminal screen, i. Justice Department drops its year case against IBM, that had sought to break up the firm that has dominated the computer industry, saying the suit was "without merit and should be dismissed. Digital Research is producing an operating system for the Intel's marketing manager also spoke briefly of the planned iAPX , Intel's next major processor.

The first implementation will be on the IBM Displaywriter. Rodent Associates announced its incorporation as an optical mouse engineering firm. The mouse is called a Fitts's law pointing device by human factors researchers, meaning that it points as well as the human finger. The Context MBA , the first integrated software package, ships. It combines financial modeling , graphics, relational database management and word processing in one program.

The double-sided directory increased from four to seven sectors, allowing up to directory entries, leaving sectors, i. The 2-byte last modified time was inserted at the end of the directory's reserved field , reducing the reserved field to 10 bytes. Also available is Microsoft's Macro Assembler. Initially the programs were sold separately, but by October Norton offered them as a package called The Norton Utilities.

Most DOS software packages would support it as a de facto display standard , but DOS provided no graphics support, so every program manipulated the board's registers and video memory directly via special drivers. Zenith releases the Z It had been in secret development for two years, and the demo was a loud wakeup call to Bill Gates. Compaq achieved compatibility legally by reverse engineering through clean room design.

The Compaq was the only non-IBM machine that could run SYS —a first step towards plug and play. New file attribute bits are read-only, volume label , subdirectory and archive. A team of six developers produced version 2. Single-sided KB , bytes; sectors and double-sided KB , bytes; sectors diskettes require more than the maximum FAT entries a byte sector can hold, so the FAT size is doubled, leaving sectors , bytes for data on single-sided disks and clusters , bytes [E] on double-sided disks. The system could be configured to support date stamping of files.

The operating system distribution software also included a relocating assembler and linker. Responding to VisiCorp and other competitors working on operating environments, Microsoft's Rao Remala assembles the " Interface Manager " demo which consisted of a screen filled with overlapping windows apparently running programs that really didn't do anything. At Microsoft it became known as the " smoke-and-mirrors " demo. A memory board using the kb chips that allows the Micro 16s to store a full megabyte will be made available later this year. It comes in either a bus or serial version, with the Multi-Tool [J] Notepad , a mouse-based text editor written by Richard Brodie.

As many as eight documents could be edited at the same time in so-called windows. Microsoft releases the Microsoft Mouse. Initial sales were modest, as there was little you could do with it except run the demonstration programs included in the box a tutorial, practice app and Notepad or program interfaces to it. Wang said the SIMM could lessen the need for kilobit chips which have just started production and are relatively costly, since the SIMM is denser than kb and is available now. The SIMM's 30 pins are inserted into a plastic chip carrier rather than the gold-plated leadless ceramic chip carrier.

Added address pins were included to enable upgrading, and Wang said it will soon assemble kb components around SIMM. It could run up to four tasks at once. Its built-in CGA-compatible display adapter added three special graphics modes which would not be supported by later generation adapters.

PCjr ships first quarter in limited supply. PC World bound an envelope containing a Word demonstration disk inside its pages. Borland is launched by a single full-page ad for Turbo Pascal in Byte magazine. Lacking money to pay for the ad, the company deceives Byte's salesman into running the ad on credit, by hiring extra people so Borland would look like a busy, venture-backed company, making sure the phones were ringing and the extras were scurrying around. Without subterfuge, Borland International would almost certainly have folded.

Visi On, the first graphical user interface-based operating environment for the PC—generally viewed as VisiCorp's answer to Apple's Lisa—ships. Clone competition heated up in the past two months, with new microcomputers from Leading Edge , Panasonic , Tandy, Sperry , North Star , Gavilan and others. IBM improved its models and changed specifications so the clones were no longer compatible, and many plug compatible mainframe manufacturers went bankrupt. The Macintosh K , a milestone computer designed around a graphical user interface, is introduced.

It would be several years before the PC platform had graphics as a standard feature, and not until would PC graphics "really work". Microsoft combined versions 2. However, concurrent processing multitasking isn't supported. Unlike Visi On, it doesn't require developers to configure their programs to operate inside its windows. Windows continues to roll, with releases of Windows 3. The company launches its first television advertising campaign. To bolster its presence in the database market, Microsoft merges with Fox Software, Inc. He will become a consultant to the Company. His position is filled by the newly created three-member "Office of the President.

The TV ads are designed to demonstrate the benefits of Windows-based computing to a new, broader audience. Under the terms of the letter of intent, Microsoft will exchange approximately 1. The new version created unprecedented user demand with over one million advance orders placed worldwide. To help customers, Microsoft has trained thousands of resellers and has in place more than product support personnel. Shareholders will receive one additional share for every two Microsoft shares held on the record date of June 3, Cash will be paid in lieu of the issuance of any fractional shares.

The President recognizes Gates "for his early vision of universal computing at home and in the office; for his technical and business management skills in creating a worldwide technology company; and for his contribution to the development of the personal computing industry. The product allows common activities of sending electronic mail, scheduling group meetings, sharing files and printers, managing calendars, and working together on groups projects. It can provide networking capabilities on its own, or it can be used as a client on an existing local area network.

The new, fully-featured and fully relational DBMS provides easy, transparent access to data; powerful, usability-tested tools; and a robust development environment.

Maples, formerly senior vice president, applications division. The program offers flexible new product acquisition, licensing, and maintenance options.

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The product contains a high-quality collection of articles, animations, sounds, illustrations, graphs, and photographs, as well as, an atlas and interactive timeline all on a single CD-ROM. This version has integrated data compression, called DoubleSpace, which can safely and easily double the PC's available disk space, free conventional memory, protect data from viruses and accidental deletions, and increase performance.

Shown for the first time are: Microsoft Dinosaurs; Multimedia Mozart: The Dissonant Quartet; Multimedia Stravinsky: The new Mouse is equally effective for both right- and left-handed users. It includes the enhanced-performance driver software 9. Windows NT delivers a powerful, reliable and open platform for client-server solutions - business applications ranging from inventory management to sales automation to financial analysis.

It can also scale to meet the user's increasing processing needs because it has no internal system constraints on resources and provides consistent support for Intel, RISC and multiprocessor systems. It is scheduled to be released in 60 days. Designed for mission-critical corporate applications, Microsoft Windows NT is launched, winning an award for technical excellence from PC Magazine. Microsoft also announces Microsoft Home, a complete line of inexpensive, easy-to-use software products for personal use. Judge Vaughn Walker rules in favor of Microsoft in the Apple vs.

Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard copyright suit, the closing of an important chapter after 63 months of litigation. Microsoft introduces a better mouse, code named "Carrera. Walker of the U. Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard copyright suit. The judge granted Microsoft's and Hewlett-Packard's motions to dismiss the last remaining copyright infringement claims against Microsoft Windows 2.

Microsoft currently ships software to enhance energy efficiency, and continues to conduct additional energy-efficient research. This new version has already gained major support from more than 30 top OEM systems manufacturers worldwide. Combining full-featured tool sets, lively characters and offbeat humor, these products have been designed to inspire and stimulate children's natural creativity in writing and art with many engaging project ideas. International Microsoft Windows version 3. Microsoft announces five new multimedia titles at the Intermedia Conference in San Jose.

Microsoft reports that the number of licensed users of Microsoft Windows now totals more than 25 million, making it the most popular graphical operating system in the world. Microsoft Encarta Ships Microsoft announces the availability of Microsoft Encarta, the first multimedia encyclopedia designed for a computer. Microsoft products continue to evolve to keep up with how people work and live, and with what our customers demand from the constantly changing, constantly improving possibilities of technology. As part of the continuing evolution of personal computer technology we and our industry have entered a new era of integration -in part by integrating different types of technology e.

The first version of Microsoft Word came bundled with a Microsoft Mouse, but customers were not ready to adopt the mouse. While Word offered advanced features and sophisticated output for its era, and the Mouse provided Point-and-click simplicity of use, the slow market reaction to the combination of the two products proved that this was definitely an idea ahead of its time. To help spark interest in Word, Microsoft arranged for a demonstration version of the product to be bound into PC Magazine -the first "disk insert" ever by any company.

Word was the first word processor to support laser printers when they arrived on the market, and it introduced a host of new features, such as style sheets and outlines. By bringing together word processing, spreadsheets, and presentation programs, Microsoft created a new category: At first, some customers saw only the packaging as different. But there was a lot more going on -integrating the interface so these multiple applications really worked like one. In less than two years, Microsoft Office represented more than half of the company's total office applications sales. With more than 60 titles available under the Microsoft Home brand, the company's push into the consumer market takes off.

Microsoft announces a merger with Intuit, developer of personal finance and tax preparation packages; the merger is not completed. Sales totaled just over , copies worldwide in January International success has led the way, with some European markets such as Sweden and the United Kingdom U. It is a fully integrated bit operating system replacing Windows 3.

In this position, he will serve as a member of the Office of the President and report directly to Bill Gates. The stores are featuring a special fixture - dubbed the Microsoft tower - containing 46 software programs and one piece of hardware, the Microsoft Mouse. The displays are placed in areas with the highest traffic, near checkout stands and in busy aisles, instead of the electronics section of the store. This is the first time that Microsoft software is being treated as an "impulse" buy item.

International Opening of Latin American office in Florida puts the business close to its customers and business partners. Microsoft Internet Explorer takes full advantage of the advancement in Windows 95 to offer users easy access to the Internet and high performance. Bill Gates becomes a man of letters by authoring a twice-monthly newspaper column and publishing his first book, The Road Ahead, detailing how new technologies will guide the way we work, play, and live in the future.

Microsoft and Intuit abandon their planned merger. This new version, designed exclusively for Windows 95, greatly facilitates project communication throughout an organization, and includes improved workgroup functionality, full ODBC support and integration with Microsoft Office for Windows Microsoft 20th anniversary watch. Windows NT and the family of BackOffice products are designed for the most demanding business uses.

The design goals for Windows NT included extensibility, portability, reliability and robustness, compatibility, and performance. Windows NT is the ideal system for use in mission-critical applications -those essential "make or break" programs that are central to a company's business.

Examples of where Windows NT is at work in mission-critical applications include:. Bill Gates completely missed the rise of the Internet -- the biggest computing trend of the s. But once Microsoft saw which way the wind was blowing, it simply spent enough money to catch up. And as stated "Microsoft re-invents itself to respond to the fast-growing popularity of the Internet". Microsoft Acquires Vermeer Technologies, Inc. FrontPage will become a key component of Microsoft's strategy to provide a full range of tools for both Internet and intranet publishing.

February 15 Headed by Patty Stonesifer, the Interactive Media Division will consist of MSN, the Microsoft Network online service; games and kids' titles; and the information businesses formerly residing in the now-dissolved Consumer Division. The new division will focus on creating and marketing worldwide interactive entertainment and information products across a variety of media, including the Internet.

The Platforms Group currently comprises four divisions: These four will be realigned into three divisions: February 27 Microsoft is segmenting its support offerings into two distinct categories, according to the service level desired by the customer. End users, developers, and organizations requiring Standard and Priority technical support from Microsoft will now be served by the newly named Microsoft AnswerPoint framework, which includes easy access to technical and support information, no charge support, and fee-based, round-the-clock support at various levels.

A comprehensive portfolio of direct and partner-supplied enterprise customer services will be offered through the company's new Microsoft Service Advantage and the Global Service Network. Through ActiveX Technologies, Web pages can incorporate active content, including animation, 3-D virtual reality, video, and other multimedia content. ActiveX Technologies include Internet standards and will be delivered on multiple platforms. Key new features include built-in support for Internet applications, improved support for distributed management tools, and a new locking architecture called Dynamic Locking.

User feedback guides development and shapes priorities for new features and new technologies.

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