Microsoft Bob was a Microsoft software product intended to provide a more user-friendly interface for the Windows 3.1, Windows 95 and Windows NT operating...
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Microsoft is a multinational computer technology corporation. Microsoft was founded on April 4, 1975, by Bill Gates and Paul Allen in Albuquerque, New...
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first introduced in Microsoft Bob, which used an early version of Microsoft Agent technology internally referred to as "Microsoft Actor". It was the code...
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Office Assistant (redirect from Microsoft paperclip)
2003), and Microsoft Office for Mac (versions 98 to 2004). The Office Assistant used technology initially from Microsoft Bob and later Microsoft Agent, offering...
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by Bill Gates on August 1, 1988 at COMDEX, contained Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, and Microsoft PowerPoint — all three of which remain core products...
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Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational technology conglomerate headquartered in Redmond, Washington. Founded in 1975, the company became highly...
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Jazz as one of "The 20 Biggest Software Flops of All Time". Microsoft Bob was a Microsoft software package that provided a graphical interface for users...
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representing applications as objects in a virtual home, similar to Microsoft Bob and At Ease. The software was originally developed by a company called...
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Look up Bob, bob, or BOB in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Bob, BOB, or B.O.B. may refer to: Bob (given name), a list of people and fictional characters...
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Microsoft Gaming is an American multinational video game and digital entertainment division of Microsoft based in Redmond, Washington established in 2022...
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Level II BASIC Microsoft MACRO-80 Microsoft Macro Assembler Microsoft Small Basic Microsoft Visual SourceSafe Microsoft XNA Microsoft WebMatrix MSX BASIC...
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Microsoft codenames are given by Microsoft to products it has in development before these products are given the names by which they appear on store shelves...
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The first version of Microsoft Word was developed by Charles Simonyi and Richard Brodie, former Xerox programmers hired by Bill Gates and Paul Allen in...
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After graduating, he started working for ROLM Corporation. Bob Muglia started his Microsoft career in 1988. He was the first product manager for SQL Server...
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of Bobs (story and slideshow) in the computing industry, from Alice & Bob to Microsoft Bob and Father of Ethernet Bob Metcalfe XKCD #177: Alice and Bob...
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Microsoft Home is a discontinued line of software applications and personal hardware products published by Microsoft. The Microsoft Home brand was first...
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Comic Sans (category Microsoft typefaces)
Sans too late for inclusion in Microsoft Bob, and the typeface would go unreleased until the programmers of Microsoft 3D Movie Maker, which also used...
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Microsoft PowerPoint is a presentation program, created by Robert Gaskins, Tom Rudkin, and Dennis Austin at a software company named Forethought, Inc...
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Satya Nadella (category Microsoft employees)
business executive who is the chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) of Microsoft, succeeding Steve Ballmer in 2014 as CEO and John W. Thompson in 2021...
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Encarta (redirect from Microsoft Encarta)
Microsoft Encarta is a discontinued digital multimedia encyclopedia and search engine published by Microsoft from 1993 to 2009. Originally sold on CD-ROM...
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environments Desktop environment History of the graphical user interface Microsoft Bob Removal of Internet Explorer "Cairo Shell Homepage". Cairo Development...
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Microsoft Store was a chain of retail stores and is an online shopping site, owned and operated by Microsoft and dealing in computers, computer software...
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Vincent Connare (category Microsoft employees)
designed by the artist Chemical X When Microsoft launched Windows 1995, it featured a new program, Microsoft Bob, that included a cartoon that would talk...
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Windows 3.1 (redirect from Microsoft Windows 3.1)
used for moving, deleting, and managing files on the system. Microsoft also built Microsoft Bob, a utility that would act as a search assistant, on Windows...
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although occasionally other metaphors surface, such as those used in Microsoft Bob, 3dwm, File System Navigator, File System Visualizer, 3D Mailbox, and...
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Dave Plummer (category Microsoft Windows people)
images of Microsoft Bob as the initial seed into the pseudorandom number generation that produced the ballast, so that the "digital spirit of Bob" was included...
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also been used in a variety of games and sometimes, other software such as Marble Blast Gold and the package of Microsoft Bob. "Hideaway Pizza". v t e...
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Bob Wallace (May 29, 1949 – September 20, 2002) was an American software developer, programmer and the ninth Microsoft employee. He was the first popular...
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High Capacity Color Barcode (redirect from Microsoft Tag)
High Capacity Color Barcode (HCCB) is a technology developed by Microsoft for encoding data in a 2D "barcode" using clusters of colored triangles instead...
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Robert Kahn (computer scientist) (redirect from Bob Kahn)
Kahn. A short history of Bob (story/slideshow) in computing, from Bob Kahn to Bob Metcalfe to Microsoft Bob and Alice & Bob "An Evening with Robert Kahn...
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