The Man who created "WINDOWS" !

[anandk]

"Contrary to popular belief, the omnipresent Windows operating system does not owe its existence to Bill Gates, Paul Allen or the development team at Microsoft.

The man responsible for giving us Windows was actually a marketing expert called Rowland Hanson. Work on the operating system had started after Gates had seen a demo of VisiCorp’s software called VisiOn, which featured a graphical user interface (GUI), at Comdex, in 1982, and had decided that Microsoft would also come out with a GUIbased operating system. Gates and
the development team referred to it as ‘Interface Manager’ and the name stuck, at least until Hanson was hired to develop a marketing campaign for the product. He was unimpressed by the rather geekish ‘Interface Manager’ and proposed that the product be named ‘Windows’, as the user saw a number of ‘windows’ on the screen that contained the tools and files they needed to work with.

And the rest, as they love to say, ishistory. Had it not been for Hanson, ‘IM’ would have been an abbreviation for an operating system rather than for instant messaging"

btw this a documented and acknowledged fact...

Also see History of Microsoft Windows.

 

[Third Eye]

Thanks for the info

 

[hemant_mathur]

Never knew that .. thanx for the info

 

[iMav]

"Contrary to popular belief, the omnipresent Windows operating system does not owe its existence to Bill Gates, Paul Allen or the development team at Microsoft.

a small correctin the OS owes its existence to billy g but the name owes its exitence to the marketing guy

 

[clmlbx]

thanx for the info

 

[aryayush]

I'd expected a better post from someone like anandk. There are several problems with this one:

1. The idea of making a GUI based operating system occurred to Bill Gates after seeing the first Mac OS, not this VisiOn thing you are talking about.
2. Your source is Wikipedia and we all know how reliable it is.
3. The page you sourced the article from (and have linked to) has already been updated and it supports my first point now.

 

[anandk]

u r right iMav
arya : thanx for ur input...and yes, never expect anything from me...even i dont expect anything from "me" !

 

[iMav]

The idea of making a GUI based operating system occurred to Bill Gates after seeing the first Mac OS, not this VisiOn thing you are talking about.

and i am sure u accompanied bill gates where ever he saw this mac os and bill gates confided to you that he got the idea of making a GUI OS from the mac

 

[vish786]

and i am sure u accompanied bill gates where ever he saw this mac os and bill gates confided to you that he got the idea of making a GUI OS from the mac

 

[aryayush]

and i am sure u accompanied bill gates where ever he saw this mac os and bill gates confided to you that he got the idea of making a GUI OS from the mac

Actually, he did. Not exactly to me but to the world.

And anyway, it is common knowledge what Windows owes its existence to and I don't need to listen to any of your nonsense about it.

 

[Vishal Gupta]

never expect anything from me...even i dont expect anything from "me" !

lolz.

 

[gxsaurav]

Actually, he did. Not exactly to me but to the world.

And anyway, it is common knowledge what Windows owes its existence to and I don't need to listen to any of your nonsense about it.

While Nokia makes bread & Coca Cola makes engine Oil

We all know how "un-biased" your viewpoint is.

 

[gaurav_indian]

While Nokia makes bread & Coca Cola makes engine Oil

We all know how "un-biased" your viewpoint is.

And Writex will make mobiles and Parle G will make CDs.

 

[blackpearl]

And anyway, it is common knowledge what Windows owes its existence to and I don't need to listen to any of your nonsense about it.

Windows owes its existence to Mac? Are you sure?

I think you haven't heard the story of the "Rich neighbour named Xerox"

*www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?proj...ox.txt&topic=Microsoft&sortOrder=Sort by Date

 

[knight17]

The answers.com link is the wikipedia article itself.

 

[ratedrsuperstar]

windows was inspired by mac even this time's fast track says that

 

[rakeshishere]

The Man who created "WINDOWS"?

 

[aryayush]

Windows owes its existence to Mac? Are you sure?

I think you haven't heard the story of the "Rich neighbour named Xerox"

*www.folklore.org/StoryView.py...% 20by%20Date

I thought we were talking about where Bill Gates got the idea from, not where Steve Jobs did. Jobs took it from XEROX PARC and Gates took it from Apple.

Read the first chapter of this month's Fast Track. It clearly states that the GUI we are used to today owes its existence to XEROX PARC.