A Microsoft-Speak Timeline - From Altair to Zune

Posted by Zonk on Tuesday January 2, 2007 @05:44AM from the always-he-is-looking-to-the-future-to-the-horizon dept.

netbuzz writes "No company has had more to say about software over the past 30 years than Microsoft (for better or worse). How they've said it — the actual language used — reveals a lot about the company's evolution and is the focus of a new timeline. There's a look back at a 'tag cloud' provided by the Seattle P-I. In addition to analyzing the linguistics of about 90 documents, there are also links to such gems as Bill Gates' Playboy interview and his famous 'Open Letters to Hobbyists.' From the article: 'We're talking all the way from Altair to Zune, with stops along the way for every technology the company developed, bought or borrowed, right on through to current entanglements with Vista, Linux and Google. The tool allows for an at-a-glance view of company priorities as they evolve and shift.'"

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Re:The most surprising thing to me by camperdave · 2007-01-02 05:59 · Score: 4, Funny

Was the missing three years- just what in the hell was Microsoft doing from 1977 to 1980 anyway?

Downloading CPM on a 300 baud acoustic modem?

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Windows CeMeNT by viking80 · 2007-01-02 06:44 · Score: 4, Funny

Our shop is 100% Microsoft, including:
Windows Ce
Windows Me
Windows NT

Due to the flexibility, nimble, responsive solutions we have, we call this

Ce-me-nt

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