Microsoft Software

   Microsoft software is most widely used in the world. What else can you say? Microsoft is everywhere, all the time. We use Microsoft Hardware and Software products everyday and probably will continue to do so for the rest of our natural lives. This is not necessarily a bad thing, just a real thing. Bill Gates started the company and to his credit built one of the largest and most powerful companies in the world.

 
   On November 10, 1983, Microsoft announced Microsoft Windows®, an extension of the MS-DOS® operating system that would provide a graphical operating environment for PC users. With Windows, the graphical user interface (GUI) era at Microsoft had begun. This was the beginning of the Windows we know and love today. It wasn't much back then compared today, but everything has to start somewhere.

Microsoft Hardware and Software Here

  In 1990, the third major release named Windows 3.0 platform from Microsoft offered improved performance, advanced graphics with 16 colors, and full support of the more powerful Intel 386 processor. A new wave of 386 PCs helped drive the popularity of Windows 3.0, which offered a wide range of useful features and capabilities, including:

• Program Manager, File Manager, and Print Manager.

• A completely rewritten application development environment.

• An improved set of Windows icons.


   The popularity of Windows 3.0 grew with the release of a new Windows software development kit (SDK), which helped software developers focus more on writing applications and less on writing device drivers. Widespread acceptance among third-party hardware and software developers helped fuel the success of Windows 3.0.

   This is the version that really started what we know as Windows today. Some people have problems with Microsoft, but they built their own empire and are continuing their dominance.