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- Microsoft formally announced
- Microsoft Windows, at the Plaza Hotel
- in New York, promising the release in
- April, 1984.
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- On January 22, 1984, Apple
- Computer ran its "1984" 60 second TV
- commercial during the NFL SuperBowl
- XVIII football game, introducing the
- Macintosh computer. Apple Computer ran
- the ad only once, but dozens of news
- and talk shows replayed it, making it
- one of the most memorable ads in TV
- history. The ad cost $1.5 million to
- produce and air.
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- Two days later, on January 24 at
- the Flint Center of DeAnza College in
- Cupertino, California, Apple Computer
- held its annual stockholders meeting.
- The "1984" TV advertisement was shown,
- and then Steve Jobs introduced the
- Apple Macintosh. It featured a 7.83
- MHz 32-bit Motorola 68000 CPU,
- built-in 9-inch monochrome screen,
- 512x342 graphics, 400 KB 3.5-inch Sony
- floppy disk drive, mouse, 128 KB RAM.
- Weight was 20 pounds; size was 9.7 by
- 10.9 inches on base and 13.5 inches
- high; price: $1995-2495.
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- Phoenix Software began licensing
- its IBM PC compatible ROM BIOS to
- computer manufacturers. PC clones
- finally became truly "IBM Compatible."
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- By marketing MS-DOS aggressively
- to manufacturers of IBM-PC clones,
- Microsoft gained unprecedented
- visibility in the microcomputer
- industry, even eclipsing IBM. IBM
- later tried to steer users to its own
- operating system called OS/2, but it
- was too late. Too many third party
- programs already ran on MS-DOS.
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- During the following years, Gates
- used his growing power to outplay
- competitors such as Wordperfect, Lotus
- 123 and Netscape, among many others.
- It is said, for example, that Gates
- instructed Microsoft programmers to
- include special code in one of the
- MS-DOS versions to make Lotus 123
- produce errors ("DOS is not done until
- Lotus won't run"), to make it appear
- to the users as if Lotus was the
- problem.
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