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THE BEGINNING OF THE MAGAZINE, WHERE ARTICLES ARE SMALL
THOMAS MCDONALD
THE LIST
9 Things Microsoft Got Right
THE LIST
9 Things Microsoft Got Right
THE LIST
Bringing Internet multiplayer to the
mainstream is a massive gaming
accomplishment.
XBOX LIVE
7
SUPPORTING
LEGACY
DEVICES AND
APPS AT ALL
COSTS
4
PUSHING MINSPEC
HARDWARE
Each version of Windows brings a new
baseline hardware spec for developers to
build against, forcing change and ensuring
progress.
2
THE “MOSTLY
OPEN” PLATFORM
It’s not open source, but Windows’s
well-documented APIs foster application
development.
3
5
MOUSE AS A BIZ
TOOL
Prior to Windows 3.x, the mouse was a
fringe tool for Mac users and other hippies.
6
BRINGING TCP/IP
TO THE MASSES
Bundling TCP/IP (and a fully fl edged web
browser) with Windows 95 made the Internet
accessible to people who wouldn’t pay
$100-plus for Win3.1 TCP/IP stacks.
MAINSTREAMING THE PC
PCs used to be expensive and hard to use. Thanks to
Windows’s least-common-denominator approach, we
now have ubiquitous, inexpensive computers.
1
8
DIRECTX
Remember
Dos4gw?
So do we.
CHURROS: CHEWY.
9 CINNAMONY. DELICIOUS.
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So do we.
CINNAMONY. DELICIOUS.
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