History of the Microsoft Windows Desktop
I thought it would be kind of fun to put together a historical collection of Microsoft’s operating system desktops; to give a perspective of just how far the PC desktop environment has evolved since Microsoft entered into the market and essentially took over the world’s share of the PC market. I am starting back when Windows was in its infancy, to the early days of Microsoft DOS, and moving forward in time to the future to Microsoft’s Windows 8. Most of Microsoft’s operating systems have been a big success, and have changed the way the world uses and interfaces with desktop computers, and a few of Microsoft’s operating systems have been disappointing. But no one can deny that since 1980, that Microsoft has dominated the PC desktop environment, even with worthy competitors like Apple and Linux. Microsoft has managed to come out on top in providing the business world with powerful and reliable operating systems, and providing home computer users with operating systems that not only meet tough demands, but have also kept up with consumer trends in multimedia and personalization.
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Short History of MS-DOS, A
Known variously as Seattle Computer 86-DOS, IBM Personal Computer DOS, and Zenith Z-DOS, MS-DOS was developed by Seattle Computer Products for its 8086-based computer system. The MS-DOS history is intertwined with the general development of software for 8086-based computers.
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Brief History of Microsoft Windows, A
Are you a PC? Microsoft Windows is the most popular operating system in the world with over 90% of the market share. How long have you been using Windows?
With Windows 7 just released, its nice to look back at the long history of Microsoft Windows. This is a timeline of Microsoft Windows starting from Windows 1.0 in 1985 all the way to 2009 with Windows 7.
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History Of Operating Systems
An operating system is kind of like the brain of a computer. You have a bunch of hardware like the CPU tower, the monitor, and the keyboard, but without a CPU, they can’t do anything but power up and turn on. The operating system organizes files and lets the hardware know what it should do.
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Myths About Microsoft
Microsoft has a monopoly?
There are two kinds of "monopolies", which I'll call coercive and competitive. Coercive involves actual violence or the real threat of it. For example, organized crime has been handed its greatest gift - a coercive monopoly on distributing certain pharmaceuticals - this monopoly is enforced by the police, at the expense of the taxpayers, who are also the people buying the product. Try to compete with this monopoly and you die, either being shot by BATF thugs or by organized crime thugs. Nice setup, eh?
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Brief History of Operating Systems, A
Introduction
Operating Systems (OS) are the layer of software that sits between hardware and higher level pieces of function like applications and middleware. They help applications and middleware make use of the underlying hardware by doing things like managing memory, providing device driver support for hardware components and file systems to store and organize information on disk. While not technically part of the operating system layer, many modern operating systems are package some higher level function such as shells (also know as graphical user interfaces (GUI)), storage compression, firewalls, internet access, and even web browsers. This paper is a brief overview of the key operating systems in the market, their ancestry, their design points and their differentiating features.
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History of Overclocking Part One, A
For as long as enthusiasts have had fingers to flick DIP switches, so too has existed their desire to overclock all manner of processors.
While we spend a lot of time looking forwards, sometimes it’s good to know where we came from. Sure we all take FSBs, multipliers, HyperTransport and RAM ratios for granted these days, but there was a time when only the FSB existed. Wouldn’t it be nice to have a better comprehension of what it is we actually tweak, instead of blindly punching in numbers?
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Gigabyte Technology
Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. is a Taiwan-based manufacturer of computer hardware products best known for its motherboards. The company is publicly held and traded on the Taiwan Stock Exchange (TWSE: 2376).
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A Short History of PC Power Supply Voltage Rails
Let's clear up any confusion about the term "rail". A voltage "rail" refers to a single voltage provided by the PSU (short for power supply - actually it stands for power supply unit). An ATX PSU has one 3.3 volt rail. It also has one 5 volt rail. The 3.3 volt rail has its own circuitry in the PSU which generates the voltage. It also has a lot of wires and connectors to distribute the 3.3 volts to any hardware which needs it. The 5 volt rail has its own separate set of circuitry, wires, and connectors to deliver 5 volts. Modern ATX12V PSUs may have as many as four separate 12 volt rails. Each 12 volt rail has its own set of wires and connectors just like the 3.3 and 5 volt rails. The 12 volt rails just happen to be generating the same voltage as each other.
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Motherboard, The
The motherboard is the large circuit board inside your computer's case. It's sometimes called the system board, the logic board, the baseboard, or less commonly, the planar board. Everything connected to your computer system, plugs either directly or indirectly into the motherboard.
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